Nurture aspirations as well as inspiration

“If we want to keep our people, we have to have them believe in something,” said Pax8’s Lee. “This generation, yeah, there’s money. But really, if you do the research and you’re listening to them, they want to believe in something, they want to know they’re part of something bigger. And what are we doing to give that to them? The human connection and a vision. I think, integrating those two into our strategies for recruitment purposes and from an employee perspective is what’s going to make the difference.”

“That is 100% why I first trained at Cisco,” said Ragusa-McBain. “I was working on Wall Street when I heard, ‘We’re changing the way the world lives, works and plays.’ And I wanted to be part of that, I wanted to change the world. I shared that aspirational goal.”