Where to Find Young Adults with 21st-Century Leadership Skills?
Hint: They're not in your summer internship program.
What's in this month's Newsletter?
Main Feature: Where to Find Young Adults with 21st-Century Leadership Skills?
Jobs and Talent
What I’ve Been Reading
Personal and Professional Updates
Where to Find Young Adults with 21st-Century Leadership Skills?
For this month’s newsletter, I’m pleased to share a bit of my own primary research! I created this infographic to overview the project:
Essentially, these 10-week summer jobs function as experiential leadership development simulations akin to the kind of executive development exercises company’s host for high potentials at the airport Marriott. But unlike those three-day executive seminars, these summer jobs last months, present a host of organic challenges, and the stakes are 100% real.
What is it about these experiences that serve as such great leadership development crucibles? The study revealed 19 discrete job activities across four major categories that are critical to leadership development. When assessed deductively and inductively, the data mapped to the Peterson and Van Vleet (2004) comprehensive leadership skills taxonomy and revealed additional leadership skills:
You’ve heard about needing to look outside-the-box to find top talent in a tough hiring market? Here’s one example of where outside-the-box talent is lurking.
Jobs and Talent
Jobs:
Community Wellness Coordinator (Summers, Western Massachusetts): Speaking of camp employment, Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA is looking for an experienced mental health professional to work at the camps over the summer.
HR Coordinator, Lionsgate (Colorado): My friend and former classmate is searching for an HR coordinator. ”We're looking for someone who is eager to learn and enjoys working in the Learning & Engagement space.”
What I’ve Been Reading:
A post in Microsoft’s Work Lab discussing hybrid work life
How employees at Cisco are adjusting to the hybrid new normal
Vyopta 2022 hybrid work survey
The “Latecomers Guide to Crypto” from the NYTimes
Article on managers struggling to supervise the return to office
An interesting profile on how song lyrics are being used in criminal prosecutions
A NYTimes opinion piece offers that the younger generation’s attitude toward email is the right one
4-day workweek alert:
BBC on how five days goes down to four
Criticism of the four-day workweek in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece
Healthwise set up a four-day workweek to retain employees and business is booming
Hawaii is considering a four-day workweek for state employees
California is considering a four-day workweek for everyone (at large employers)
Here’s a list of employers piloting the four-day workweek
Reminder: On the 4th of every month, the more-detailed version of this section premiers on LinkedIn.
Personal & Professional Updates
I’m incredibly pleased to share that my dissertation has been completed and successfully defended. The infographic above describes the project but if you have trouble sleeping you can read the entire thing here.
With my dissertation completed I now have an additional 15-20 hours/week to dedicate to work and personal projects. I’ll be sharing more soon. I’ll also be opening 2-3 coaching slots - message me if interested.
My friend Erica Seldin at August Public is releasing a new online course on managing hybrid work that looks excellent. Check it out and message me if you’d like a discount (wink).
Little Charlotte continues to be a goofball, and mom and dad keep hoping that she’ll somehow potty-train herself.
Our Endeavorun running retreat in Austin was a huge success. Check out the recap page and Instagram recaps. Endeavorun’s next retreat is in Boulder this August.
That's it for this edition - please reach out if I can be at all helpful.
Be compassionate and intentional.