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Build a Thriving

Workforce

Position your organization for long-term success with proven strategies to engage younger generations

ENGAGE • RETAIN • GROW

Is your company:

  • experiencing high employee turnover?

  • struggling to engage younger generations?

  • having difficulty adapting to shifting trends in your industry?

  • worried about the future?

In today's competitive landscape, more organizations are struggling to recruit and retain young talent. But with XYZ University's transformative solutions, there's hope. Drawing from Sarah Sladek's groundbreaking research, we offer tailored strategies to thrive amidst disruption.

With XYZ University, creating an engaged workforce is not just possible—it's achievable.

Services to Change Your Trajectory

XYZ University offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to meet the unique needs of organizations like yours.

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Thrive with Next-Gen Intelligence!

THE POWER OF A NEW GENERATION

The world of work is changing. Young people, having been born into this era, are the personification of that change.

 

Millennials, Gen Z, and soon Gen Alpha, are pushing organizations to be inclusive, relevant, adaptable, and innovative. But it's not enough to simply focus on understanding 'kids these days.' This won't yield the results your company needs to succeed.

At XYZ University, we take a very different approach.

We introduce organizations to the Talent Economy and guide them through the process of becoming an employer of choice. We teach organizations how to create cultures of belonging and position them to be a generation ahead instead of a generation behind

Our approach is the difference between learning about people of every generation and actually engaging people in every generation.

With our expertise in generational dynamics, workforce trends, employee engagement, team-building, and change management best-practices, XYZ University can help position your organization for long-term success.

This is Next-Gen Intelligence.

Welcome to the Talent Economy

Struggling to engage talent?

 

Sarah Sladek spent three years researching organizations successfully sustaining high employee engagement and high profitability. She identified six traits shared by all of these organizations and was named a Talent Economy Influencer after writing this ground-breaking book!

Talent Generation: How visionary organizations are redefining work and achieving greater success by Sarah L. Sladek

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Ready or Not, Hear Comes Z

Ready or Not,
Here Comes Z

Gen Z is unlike any other generation that has come before them. One thing has become quite certain already: the Zs have little in common with their Millennial elders. While it may be easy to lump these two technology-driven generations together, it would be a mistake to think they are the same for the two key reasons: Zs came of age during an era of disruption, and Zs were raised to compete.

KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS

NextGen Workforce

Learn how to increase employee engagement, manage multi-generational teams, and recruit and retain top talent through keynotes and workshops from Sarah Sladek!

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

Talent Generation: Strategies to Engage Employees

We're living in an era of unprecedented workplace innovation, connectivity, disruption, and opportunity -- as well as unprecedented disengagement and decline. But with the right talent management perspective, organizations can build high-performing, passionate teams. Sarah has been recognized as a Talent Economy Influencer. She's the author of Talent Generation, which identified current drivers of employee engagement and profitability. Her People First/Future Focused approach is game-changing for any organization struggling to recruit and retain talent.

MULTI-GENERATIONAL TEAMS

Generations@Work: Learning to Leverage Our Differences

Generation gaps curb inclusion, collaboration and innovation. In fact, research indicates generations-based workplace hostility is at an all-time high. This is contributing to increased turnover in workplaces worldwide. If you want work to work better, Sarah has the answers. She's an expert on leveraging differences and creating cultures of belonging. Using humor, pop culture references and best practices, she brings multi-generational teams closer together. Audiences rave about her unique approach to relationship-building and ability to improve employee retention.

ENGAGE THE NEXT GENERATION

The World According to Z

Meet Generation Z, the generation of teens and 20-somethings who came of age during the most disruptive decade in history. They’re walking into the workforce with radically different skill sets, values, and expectations. Does your organization have what it takes to engage them? Drawing from global generational research, Sarah’s presentation brings Z’s unique traits, expectations, and values to life. She clearly identifies what organizations need to do now to make room for this generation and successfully engage them as employees, consumers, members, and volunteers.

Resources for Corporations

Jobs of Tomorrow

In cooperation with Association TV, we produced episodes 7-12 of Season 3 of the Jobs of Tomorrow docuseries. This fascinating series examines the technologies, processes, and thought leaders shaping the future of the work we do and how we do it.

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