Do you employ millennials on your staff, and hope to keep them around? Give them opportunities to grow.

According to research from Gallup, 87 percent of millennials rate career growth and development as important to them in a position, and 68 percent of millennials who have had opportunities to learn and grow in their roles plan on sticking around.

While it sounds easy enough, with the many things that need to get accomplished each day, staff development can sometimes slip to the wayside. Gallup reports, “Only 39 percent of millennials strongly agree that they learned something new on the job in the past 30 days, and fewer than one in two strongly agree they have had opportunities at work to learn and grow within the past year.”

While personal and career development of staff members does take a sacrifice of time, it is vitally important for pastors to prioritize. For more on this topic, read “Leading and Managing Millennials.”