Millennials Matter: Proven Strategies for Building Your Next-Gen Leader
Successful business leaders see their experienced leaders retiring soon. Panic strikes when they see how few millennials have the leadership and sale acumen to fuel their business growth or transition.
Danita Bye is a business leader who loves millennials and believes they could be the new “greatest generation.” Join her passionate journey and discover how to help young leaders get leadership traction. Learn how to:
- Identify and tackle real millennial challenges.
- Tap into millennial strengths and talents.
- Develop capable next-gen leaders of character.
- Build a bench of engaged and focused young team players.
- Leverage millennials’ skills and grow your business
- Set the stage for your business transition.
- Leave a legacy of wisdom and strength.
Millennials Matter will provide you with coaching inspiration and practical action steps to harness the strengths of your millennial leaders so they become one of your biggest business assets and a testimony to your leadership legacy.
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager® and Lead Like Jesus Revisited
Timely and on point, Millennials Matter is filled with truths you and your team can act on to make a difference in your future and our future. Inspiring, relevant, and actionable, this book is a toolbox to build trust and influence, and impact our current and future leaders. We need to do this now!
—David Horsager, Trust Edge Leadership Institute
—Hal Donaldson, President, Convoy of Hope; Author, Your Next 24 Hours: One Day of Kindness Can Change Everything
Millennials Matter is a must read for anyone interested in preparing new leaders to meet the challenges of the future. Danita Bye leads us through the steps to help develop values-based differentia in emerging adults and gives us the tools to discover the potential in others to lead. Reading this book will compel you to evaluate your responsibility to transfer your leadership attributes to those who follow.
—Ed Schafer, Governor of North Dakota (1992–2000); US Secretary of Agriculture (2008)
—Mike Sharrow, President & CEO, The C12 Group, LLC
In Millennials Matter, Danita Bye has identified the importance of equipping the millennial generation to succeed owners transitioning out of their businesses. In this historically largest ever transfer of generational wealth, Danita’s focus is to mentor, coach, and mobilize the millennial generation to lead companies to even greater levels, while at the same time preserving the legacy of the business owner.
—Rob Gales, Managing Director, VERCOR
—Pete Henschel, Cru, National Field Director; Executive Director, Executive and Entrepreneurial Leadership Forum; Executive Director, Global Leadership Forum
While reading Danita’s book, I found myself frequently introspecting and reminiscing. How am I a typical millennial? How can I overcome my millennial weaknesses? How can I leverage my millennial strengths? Millennials Matter helped me realize obvious mistakes I had made while managing millennials and bolstered my ability to lead my peers and more importantly, myself.
—Cooper Buss, Millennial Entrepreneur, Life Acoustics; Director of Customer Success-Digital Marketing ResortsAndLodges.com
—Karen A. Berg-Johnson, Director of Leadership Giving, PULSE, a millennial-engaged Christian nonprofit
The why is never-changing. Leadership is fluid. Just about the time leaders are in that sweet spot where wisdom meets humble confidence, it’s time to begin passing the torch. Effectively making this transition has long-term ramifications. The how has to be ever-changing too. The twenty-first century’s new wave of leaders, millennials, require an entirely new understanding by leaders that started in the twentieth century. Leaders involved with CBMC have a desire to mentor and disciple millennials but aren’t exactly sure how. Danita provides a powerful toolkit to guide leaders who desire to transition well and bear fruit that lasts.
—Alan Smith, Area Executive Director, CBMC Northland
—Deborah Yungner, CEO-Visioneer, ERBUS Inc.; Vice President, BizDev; CoCreateX; recipient of the Woman Inventor of the Year, USA
Millennials Matter is a great resource to help implement the three recommendations I give to CPAs developing millennials: thanking them once a week for something specific they have done; getting them the resources they need from their perspective (i.e., don’t micro-manage them); and giving them a chance to shine.
—Michael Gregory, Chief Manager, Michael Gregory Consulting, LLC; Author, Peaceful Resolutions and The Servant Manager
—Jerome J. Richter, Vice President for Public Affairs, University of Mary
Danita Bye is a great listener. There is no possible way to solve the puzzle of millennials without understanding how they think, and that only comes through listening. This book is your road map for listening to and building them into great leaders.
—Scott Hennen, Host, What’s On Your Mind radio show; Partner, Flag Family Media
—Paul Balus, Senior Director of Global Sales and Corporate Training, Skyline Displays
Product Details
- Title : Millennials Matter: Proven Strategies for Building Your Next-Gen Leader
- Author: Bye, Danita
- Publisher: Broadstreet Publishing Group, LLC
- Publication Date: 2017
- ISBN: 9781424555598
Danita Bye is founder and CEO of Sales Growth Specialists, a leadership and sales development firm that partners with business owners to improve sales performance as part of their growth strategy. These core strategies propel her clients’ businesses to the next level through consulting, training, coaching, and recruiting. Danita gained valuable experience at Xerox Corporation in sales and later, as an owner and manager of a turnaround medical device sales team. She excelled as a sales person, but her greatest success was her ability to find and mentor young talent. Danita saw firsthand how character-based leadership can impact the bottom line as well as young professionals she coached.
With a practical, rubber-meets-the-road style that focuses on values and character-based success, Danita strives to help experienced leaders gain an understanding of the importance of their role in shaping young leaders. Her vision is in energizing and equipping leaders of character with the skills and tools to coach millennials, our future leaders. She believes that leaders build leaders.
Danita grew up on an isolated cattle ranch in rural North Dakota where she had strong mentors at home, church, and school. During those formative years, she learned about the value of the dollar, relationships, discipline, education, and faith. Danita’s leadership drive and sales management successes are rooted in her invaluable experiences on the ranch.
Millennials Matter is an integration of principles gathered during Danita’s years in sales and coaching and of her spiritual passion, which inspired her to author Letters From the King: A Devotional Parable of Spiritual Discovery. Danita writes a leadership blog at www.DanitaBye.com, which provides tips, tools, and talk tracks for those who mentor emerging leaders. Committed to development of the next generation of leaders, Danita serves on the board of directors for two private Christian universities and The North Dakota Economic Development Foundation. She holds a master’s degree in Transformational Leadership from Bethel University and a bachelor’s degree in Pre-Med from the University of Sioux Falls.
Danita and her husband, Gordon, have been married for over thirty years and live in Stanley, North Dakota. They have three Millennial children, Brittany, Westin, and Danae and are the proud grandparents of two active boys. Danita enjoys spending time with her family, reading, and traveling the globe to places such as China, Tanzania, France, and Panama.