In terms of positive traits, Gurmeet feels that recent
hires tend to push back on tech changes. It’s important to drive those changes, as they are needed for growth, continued learning, and to provide cutting-edge service for their customers. This helps to scale the company. At the end of the day, they are in the people business to serve. Gurmeet wants to make his staff feel comfortable. He strongly believes that it’s important to play at the same level as your staff, so you understand what they do on a daily basis. This builds stronger relationships. When you understand their challenges, you can help them achieve their goals. He mentors them to understand
to working for him and change their minds before the start date. They want to be shown a long- term career path before coming on board. In the end, Frank has seen the most dramatic change in new hires in the past three years. Gurmeet Judge is the president and CEO of Encompass Solutions. He’s observed that the mindset of recent grads is different. The hunger to learn is not there as it was in the past. They are more laid back, thinking they did their training in school. Colleges are not teaching people to be hungry or to look at new perspectives.
grads are seeking leadership by example. Can you lead me? He wants to bring them into the office to gain more mentoring, as it’s more effective. As a leader, he wants the staff to be together more by eating lunch with their coworkers, engaging in quality time, sitting down for coffee, or engaging in fun activities. He prefers that an employee visits a client site with a coworker. He feels that a hybrid working model is more ideal than remote.
Gurmeet provides weekly trainings to keep growing. Working in tech, his newer
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