Having trouble adulting? Now there’s a class for that
Posted On January 22, 2019
Well, this won’t help combat the millennial stereotype: There apparently is now such a thing as “adulting classes.” According to CBS News, the classes teach life skills like cooking, sewing, budgeting and time management — you know, those things most of us learned from our parents or through our own trial and error. I can see the memes now: “What do these things have in common?” in all-caps above pictures of a cassette tape, a rotary phone and a frying pan. “Millennials don’t know what they are.” Before we laugh too loudly, however, let’s remember that it’s the Baby Boomer… Read More
Categories: Blog, Generation Y / Millennials, Parenting
Still supporting your adult children? Join the club
Posted On January 10, 2019
Have you helped your adult children with a rent payment since they moved out on their own? Covered their insurance? Helped them pay down their bills or chipped in on a down-payment for a house or car? You’re far from alone. You’re actually in the majority. Nearly 80 percent of parents continue to help their adult children out financially, according to a recent study conducted by Merrill Lynch and shared by CBS News. Ranging from major expenses like weddings and college tuition to everyday expenses like utilities and groceries, parents shell out about $500 billion a year to help their… Read More
Categories: Blog, Generation Y / Millennials, Parenting
Don’t know where you want to be in five years? If you’re a job-seeker, find an answer
Posted On January 9, 2019
The modern workforce is changing. It only makes sense that modern interviewing methods should change too. Common queries about educational background and job skills are being replaced or augmented with behavioral questions designed to determine whether an applicant is a good fit for the company: Can you tell me about a time you had a conflict with a co-worker and how you resolved it? If you had 1,000 emails in your inbox but you could only answer 300, how would you choose which to answer? And a seemingly simple one that today’s generation of college graduates is having an increasingly… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam Marston, Work, Workplace
Today’s iGen teenagers may be better equipped for the world than we think
Posted On January 7, 2019
You’ve seen the students from Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on TV since the terrible shooting at their school last spring. Regardless of what you think of the stance they’ve taken on gun control, it’s difficult not to admire the initiative these teenagers have shown in organizing the #NeverAgain movement and the way they’ve handled themselves in the face of harsh criticism after placing themselves in the public eye. Is this what we expected from iGen? Weren’t they supposed to be an even more entitled, self-absorbed bunch of social media addicts than we perceive millennials to be? A recent article… Read More
Categories: Blog, iGen
There are still some human qualities and tasks that technology can’t replace
Posted On January 2, 2019
Advances in technology are affecting, and in many cases disrupting, pretty much every industry. We all rely on computers now in some form or other, and digital tools and automation are transforming the way we do business while performing many jobs once held by humans. What about nursing? We always hear that it is one of the few professions where demand is constant. Could robots or artificial intelligence ever replace the tasks performed by a nurse? Lisa Mestas thinks not. Mestas, Chief Nursing Officer at University of South Alabama Health System and our guest in the latest episode of “What’s… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam Marston
Why do we quit our jobs? We all have our reasons, and they aren’t the same.
Posted On December 10, 2018
While millennials have developed a reputation for job-hopping, we have in the past noted statistics that show Baby Boomers quit their jobs at a similar pace when in their 20s as well. Dissatisfaction in the workplace is not specific to a generation. But why do we quit? And do those reasons differ between generations? These are questions that were recently put to the test recently in a study by PyschTests.com that was shared by PRWeb.com, which surveyed nearly 500 people with a Turnover Probability Test and got some interesting results. While the reason cited most by millennials for leaving a… Read More
Categories: Blog, Workplace
Papa Grows Funk, but what can a musician teach us about growing a business?
Posted On December 6, 2018
In past posts on this blog, we have examined lessons that people from various backgrounds, from military officers to football coaches, can teach us about running a business. But stay with us on this next one: What about musicians? Our guest in this week’s episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” is John “Papa” Gros, a longtime New Orleans musician who toured the world with his band, Papa Grows Funk, but often found himself dealing with issues that might seem familiar to managers in many different lines of business. Papa Grows Funk came together organically, Gros says – they knew… Read More
Categories: Blog, Podcast, What's Working with Cam Marston
We’ve seen the millennial office, but what will an iGen workspace look like?
Posted On November 26, 2018
We’ve spent a good bit of time in this space discussing the aspects of a millennial workspace. But perhaps, with iGen now starting to enter the workforce, we should consider what they will want in an office as well. Beatriz Sanchez, a contributor at globalfurnituregroup.com, did just that recently, and the picture she paints is quite a bit different from the trends we’re seeing now. Instead of the open, collaborative spaces millennials crave, iGen employees are looking for predictability and structure, Sanchez says; they’re independent and like to have their own workspaces. They prefer face-to-face communication to the email and… Read More
Categories: Generation Y / Millennials, iGen, Workplace
Are millennials killing Hooters too? Not so fast.
Posted On November 7, 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this, but guys still like eating chicken wings and looking at scantily clad women. Hence, despite what Business Insider would have us believe are millennials’ best efforts, reports of the Hooters restaurant chain’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Business Insider, which seems to blame millennials for killing off a different industry every other month, reported last year that Hooters was in trouble. The chain, known for its waitresses and their short shorts and tight, low-cut tops, had seen its U.S. locations decrease more than 7 percent from 2012 to 2016 and sales were stagnant…. Read More
Categories: Generation Y / Millennials
Are we on the verge of a retirement crisis?
Posted On November 4, 2018
Are we on the verge of a retirement crisis? It depends on who you ask. Conflicting reports abound on the state of American retirement plans. Some say we, on average, are looking OK. Others say we aren’t even close to being ready. Wesley Carpenter, a financial planner with Merrill Lynch, offers his take in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston.” Corporate America has shifted from pensions toward 401k plans – fewer than 20 percent of private sector employers still offer a pension plan, Carpenter says, down from over 60 percent in the early 1980s. That shifts the… Read More
Categories: Retirement, What's Working with Cam Marston