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Meet the Membership & Education Expectations of Millennials and Gen Z

WBT Systems

Meet the Membership & Education Expectations of Millennials and Gen Z. Read more about Meet the Membership & Education Expectations of Millennials and Gen Z.

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Focus on Millennial Learners to Benefit Members of All Ages

WBT Systems

There are countless articles describing how we need to change the way we deliver learning to attract and engage millennial learners, but many of these articles seem to forget that organizations must deliver learning to learners across multiple generational groups. Do millennial learners prefer different types of training?

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Help Millennials Get Jobs: Offer Online Learning & Career Resources

WBT Systems

Millennials get their share of depressing headlines these days—like this one from NBC News : “Majority of millennials are in debt, hitting pause on major life events.”. A stunning sad fact: only 22 percent of millennials are debt-free. The state of millennial membership. The state of millennial membership.

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Study says, associations must target Millennial learners.

YourMembership

The Millennial generation—of which I’m a proud card-carrying member—has certainly been a hot topic during the last couple of years. Smart association leaders are quickly realizing that continuing education programming is an offering highly valued by young professionals. appeared first on YourMembership.

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Why (and How) to Design Association Education for Young Professionals

WBT Systems

Millennials will make up nearly half the U.S. Generational definitions vary but most characterize millennials (or Generation Y) as 21 to 35 year olds. Generation Z, usually described as those who are 21 and under, is already a bigger group than the millennials or the boomers. Millennials in the workplace. hours per week.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Association Education Programs

WBT Systems

In this post, we have collected some articles that we think will be interesting for associations, and that touch on some of the challenges and opportunities for association education programs today. Connectivity is replacing knowledge – association education must facilitate feedback, understanding and application to provide true value.

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Associations play an important role in higher education

Aaron Wolowiec

education) wasn’t nearly as strong. As some of you may know, I work at a university (in addition to my Event Garde role), so I live and breathe higher education. Educators should develop a better understanding of what students need to be learning, and then connect those learning outcomes to employment, they said.

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