All set for the new generation?

Evolution is the only certainty we have, and change comes quickly, with new devices, apps and frameworks to be assessed, while efficiency is always a must.

Managers need not only to encourage innovation but be ready to understand it and incorporate it into their business. The question is how flexible their company is to recognise and accommodate the abilities, skills, preferences and high-tech proposals of the young generation within their workforce.

Machines will certainly continue to replace people in repetitive work, while people will continue to create new machines. The uniqueness of the human being is critical thinking, with the ability to innovate, optimise processes, make balanced decisions and demonstrate feelings. For now at least.

A team is motivated when they sense they have the greatest chance of success, with clear breakthrough points laid out ahead of them. This can simply mean delivering on time and to budget, but any deviation from the expected outcome will demand an extra dose of creativity to nurture motivation.

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Motivated people are not merely those who feel their potential is recognised, but those who also feel they have a role to play in all stages of a project. They want to feel they are being listened to and that their ideas are valued. Young nuclear professionals are adept in the use of new technology and can adapt easily to different circumstances. They are critical and quick-thinking and they want to see results and to know how to build their career effectively.

We are all different of course and it is this diversity of perspective that makes us deliver better results. Every good manager treats every one of their employees as an individual and helps them recognise their talent at the company and how it serves the whole mission. More important still is to listen to each employee's point of view and to consider them in a balanced decision-making process.

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We need to give up the expectation that leaders in the future will do better than we can now; we should be making every effort to improve the planet we are passing on to the next generation.

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But time is running out with climate change and managers need - as a matter of urgency - to understand new ideas and to communicate well internally and externally in order to maintain highly motivated and effective teams in a fast-evolving technological world. To do this, they need to be ready for the young professionals in their workforce NOW.

Read the full article at: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/V-All-set-for-the-new-generation-25041801.html

Patricia Wieland speaking at international industry meeting in 2019