I’ve written in this space before that the 3rd Quarter Issue of The MHEDA Journal is among the most challenging but also most rewarding issues to put together. While the 1st Quarter Issue is dominated by forecast information for the upcoming year, the 2nd Quarter is devoted to Convention and the 4th Quarter is made up of mostly Sales Success Stories, the 3rd Quarter issue has a lot more space and freedom to tackle multiple different areas of the industry at the same time. In this issue alone, we recognize the "Best of the Best" with manufacturer dealer-recognition awards, congratulate MHEDA members celebrating milestone anniversaries, have several articles devoted to warehouse safety, recap the Convention, preview the Emerging Leaders Conference and Forklift Management 101 Conference and share tips with Millennials in material handling. It’s those last three items that particularly interest me, as they hit close to home. One of the things that MHEDA and our members have focused heavily on in recent years is integrating multiple generations together in the workplace. In the 15 years, there has been an influx of "Millennials" flooding into the workforce. For the purposes of this article, I’ll defer to Pew Research and label a Millennial as somebody born between 1981 and 1997. So even the youngest Millennial is either in college or already in the workforce. When I first started writing for The MHEDA Journal six years ago, I was 21. At the time, it seemed like Millennials in the workforce were an unknown quantity that needed a code to crack. They were almost a curiosity. And we’ve devoted a ton of space in the magazine and online discussing how best to integrate this new generation with all of its unique wants and needs into the workforce. Even today, a stigma still […]