Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Old National Bancorp
Search every verified Ira Robbins interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2018 interview on "Caucus: New York," Ira Robbins, then President of Valley National Bank, discussed leadership development and working with Millennials. Robbins stated that a leader has a responsibility to provide employees a path and opportunity to achieve their expectations, adding that any manager not executing this is an "ineffective manager." He described Millennials as wanting leaders to be engaged in their personal lives and to understand what drives them, while still maintaining appropriate separation. Robbins said he believed he could connect with younger professionals due to his relatively young age as a bank president.
“I think it's in a leader as a majus responsibility to make sure that they've provided a path, an opportunity for that employee to achieve whatever their expectations are, and that's incumbent upon every single leader, upon every single manager.”
“If they're not executing that then I would say they're an ineffective manager.”
“I think hope I can connect a little bit better than with them. We mentioned earlier about, you know, as a leader how engaged you get with an employee on a personal basis and I think the Millennials are a really good example of that.”
“Millennials want you to be engaged in their personal. I want you to have an understanding as to what really drives them, what really makes them come to work every single day, what makes them get up now.”
Ira Robbins, President of Valley National Bank, discusses leadership development and working with millennials on "Caucus: New ...
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