Multi-Generational Teams
Misunderstanding and overlooking millennials should serve as a notice to all leaders not to do it again.
I can remember for so many years, two, three, four years, there was this discussion, how do you deal with millennials? “Oh, millennials. We have all these millennials.”
Guess what? Ten years ago, 20 years ago, we changed generations, too.
I'm the end of gen x, as many of you are; we weren't big enough to cause waves. Millennials were, and we saw all this reaction to it.
And guess what? A lot of what we're experiencing right now, the changes in the workplace, one of the big ones is them saying, “I don't have to put up with you.” That's a generational change.
Why?
Because they know they have other options. They've been empowered. Is that a bad thing? NO.
I want my kids to be able to say when they have a toxic leader, as some of them have, to feel empowered to say, “I don't have to put up with your immaturity, your toxicity, your negativity, and your poor behavior.”
I want my teenage daughter to feel so empowered as part of gen z.
Misunderstanding and overlooking millennials should serve as a notice to all leaders, regardless of generation… Don't do it again.
Don't do it again.
Seek to understand. Be curious, be fascinated. We've talked a lot about that to say, okay, things have changed.
It's a more dominant generation, and just because they have different opinions, different desires, different values, doesn't mean it's bad.
There's some of them we should adopt, too.
This week on the Impact Driven Leader Podcast, I interviewed Holly Tate who discussed multi-generational leadership and some of these topics. I hope you’ll watch here!
