Gen Z: From University to Workforce

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, vist www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.Our guest, Rachel Hanson, is a collaborative educator andmultimedia content creator with a strong foundation in higher education and apassion for student-centered teaching.  She is currently in middlemanagement at a public university, and part of her responsibility is hiring andmanaging young workers (often times students) at the college.Rachel points out how economic and cultural factors (e.g.changing gender roles and expectations) create big challenges for everyone intoday’s workforce. One of the things Rachel has noticed from her own experiencehiring and managing young people entering the workforce today is that onaverage, they are quicker than previous generations at identifying when theirneeds are not being met and speaking out or even making a shift (to a neworganization) if they feel the need.  She notes that it is easy to mistakethis for a lack of loyalty to the organization, but she sees it as healthy,self-compassionate behavior, especially if management is not responding toissues when they are communicated to them. Rachel likes to view her workers in the context of what’sbeen going on in the world as they grew up.  And while there has been alot of turmoil while Gen Z grew up, in other ways, the workplace today hasadvantages that didn’t exist for earlier generations.  She emphasizes,managers shouldn’t ever try and make their young employees feel guilty becausesome things have gotten easier.  Among other things, Rachel also pointsout that while younger workers come in with native digital skills, managersshouldn’t assume that they have the same analog skills as older generations.#embodiedleadership #genderroles #EVLeaderLab #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters#ConnectedWork