1. Leadership Skills for Millennials: Challenging the Status Quo
ILA 19th Annual Global Conference
Leadership in Turbulent Times
Kevin Bottomley, PhD Sylvia Burgess, PhD
Lead Faculty Area Chair – Research Senior Consultant
University of Phoenix, SAS One Step at a Time Consulting, LLC

2. Problem
What leadership skills will young leaders need to thrive in the 21st Century?
What are the skill sets that you need to hone to become leaders in turbulent times?
What qualities will best prepare youth to lead in a turbulent world where strategic preparedness is required?

3. Paper Organization Millennials in the workplace
Leadership skills needed
Leadership qualities
Bottomley, K., & Burgess, S. (2017a)

4. Practice-Immediacy Model

5. Model Development & Refinement
Contextualizing the dynamic tension
Leadership takes practice
Millennials want leadership more immediately
(Andert, 2011)

6. Implications Coaching & Feedback
Framework to examine leadership skills
Framework to develop leadership skills

7. Practice-Immediacy Model Projects
Original Article (2014)
Are the Behaviors of Transformational Leadership Impacting Leaders? A Study of Leadership
Tobias Leadership Conference (2017)
Developing the Practice-Immediacy Model
ILA Conference Paper (2017)
Leadership Skills for Millennials: Challenging the Status Quo
Book Chapter (2017 – in press)
Millennials in Leadership: An Examination of the Practice-Immediacy Model. In Engaged Leadership: Transforming through Future Oriented Design Thinking.

8. Conclusions & Next Steps
Book Chapter
Succinctly defines four basic behaviors and twelve specific skills
Future work
Develop psychometrics used as an assessment
Develop coaching model from assessment

9. References
Andert, D. (2011). Alternating leadership as a provocative organizational intervention: Addressing the needs of the baby boomers, generation Xers and millennials. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 8(4), Bottomley, K., Burgess, S., & Fox, M. (2014). Are the behaviors of transformational leadership impacting leaders? A study of leadership. International Management Review, 10(1), 5-9. Bottomley, K. & Burgess, S.W. (2017a). Leadership skills for millennials: Challenging the status quo. Working paper submitted to the International Leadership Association Global Conference Bottomley, K, & Burgess, S.W. (2017b – in press). Millennials in Leadership: An Examination of the Practice-Immediacy Model. In Engaged Leadership: Transforming through Future Oriented Design Thinking. Springer Publishing, Inc.