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The Next Generation of Professional Mariners

Learn why attracting millennials is crucial & how to adapt workplace values. Reconcile differences, highlight similarities, & empower work-life balance. Navigate demographic shifts, new regulations, and workboat business growth. Strategies for the future include adapting to technology & creating an attractive work environment.

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The Next Generation of Professional Mariners

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  1. The Next Generationof Professional Mariners

  2. Why so important? • Demographic Hole • New Regulations • Workboat Business Growth • Experienced based Competency

  3. How to attract Millennials • Understand the differences • Reconcile the differences • Highlight the similarities • Adapt

  4. Accept the Differences Workplace Values • Community • Family • Creativity • Tolerance

  5. Similarities • “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation” • “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men;...”

  6. Similarities • “There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath” ~HERMAN MELVILLE

  7. Similarities • Passion for the Sea • Mission Oriented • Separation of Work and Home • Mind/Body Balance • Being part of a Tribe

  8. Strategies for the Future • Stop looking for clones • Get over it! Reconcile • Adapt • Make the work place attractive • Empower Work/Life Balance

  9. Differences • (Mis?) • Interpretations • 7% Hardworking & dedicated • 26% Creative • 18% Confident • = Doesn’t know how to work • = Distractible and Unfocussed • = ArrogantOverconfident

  10. Reconcile the Differences • Work Ethic • Creativity • Technology • Confidence

  11. Work Ethic/Creativity

  12. Adapt- Knowledge Transfer • Instant access to knowledge • Expectations of how to learn • Training entitlement • Visual and active versus verbal and passive • Entitled to knowledge vs. deserving knowledge • Deserve a mentor vs. earn a mentor NO SECRET SQUIRRELS

  13. Adapt- Technology • Vessel Technology • Electronic Navigation • Dynamic Positioning • Communications • Connected vs. Isolation • KMI • SAT COM

  14. Adapt • New Tribe

  15. Make the Workplace Attractive • Schedule • Connectivity • Technology • Training • Work perks=life values • Tolerate the New Tribe • Transferable Credibility

  16. Final Thoughts

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