Dan Negroni, CEO of LaunchBox, discusses bridging the gap between millennials and managers through authenticity and relationship-building. He presents a "rules of 3s" framework covering mind, body, and career, and cites workforce retention statistics showing why managers and millennials both need to invest in development.
And of course, Dan Negroni, who is our Chief Launch Officer and CEO of LaunchBox. Thanks for being here.
Good morning everybody, I'm Dan Negroni and I am CEO and founder of a company called LaunchBox. And at LaunchBox we bridge the gap between millennials and managers. So we are all millennial, all day, 365 days a year, and we love that. And we kind of teach them the real-world skills they need to know, and then we teach all the managers to get out of their own way to bridge the gap and connect with them and create some innovation and results. Sure. And we believe the secret to success of connecting relationships first with yourself starts from the inside and comes out, but it is in 3 simple categories. We like rules of 3s: mind, body, and career. We want you to be real. There's nothing a client sees through, especially— we're millennial experts— especially the younger generation, than lack of authenticity. If you are not real, if you are not upfront, if you are not who you are personally and professionally, People see through it and they don't want to do business with you. $600 billion, okay? So they are not only 73% of your workforce in the schools, and I know that, and 40% in your corporate offices, but they are your customers too.
And so we gotta figure out how to raise this gap.
Everything we do in life depends on creating another relationship We're human. Whether it's power, whether it's money, whether it's love, whether it's information we seek. Whatever we need to do. Building relationships starts from the inside out. It's personal. It's about you. You have to understand yourself in order to be able to connect with others and provide them value. It's pretty simple. 60% of millennials will leave their company in 3 years, right? That's higher than non-millennials and it's a challenge. Because if you train someone, especially if you train them You're spending a lot of money training them, and they walk out the door a year earlier. You've lost a lot of the money that you've invested in that. A fiduciary duty of managers is to teach those people and share the wisdom that Ryan was talking about. And the fiduciary duty of the millennial is to understand, "I have stuff to learn even though I'm great, I'm here."
