Radical Strategies for Gen Z to Succeed in the Workplace

To learn more about how embodiment training can help yousuccessfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.Our guest is Russel Von Brocklen – The DyslexiaProfessor.  Russel is best known forhelping neurodiverse students drastically improve their school performance – turningtheir neurodiversity into their superpower. He is the creator of the Special First Literacy Blueprint and Word AnalysisFirst tools, funded by the New York state legislature.  In our show, Russel describes the role of AIin his methods and explains how the school hacks he has developed can be usedto make a huge positive impression in the workplace.  And this is going to be key as AI expands andentry level employees will only survive by making a strong impression. Russel shares his story of growing up with dyslexia and aparticular incident that caused him to declare he was going to find a way touse his dyslexia to succeed.  It is themethods he developed for other dyslexic students that led to hisrecommendations for entering the AI enabled workplace.Russel points out that the strength he sees in neurodiversekids, both Gen Z and younger, is that they have areas of specialty and interestwhere they are very strong.  And hediscusses strategies he has developed to help anyone use their area of specialtyto solve high leveraged work problems.Specifically for Gen Z entering the workforce, Russel arguesthat you are not just competing with your peers, you are competing with powerful,efficient and inexpensive AI tools.  Hisadvice is to learn to utilize these tools to solve problems that will boostyour reputation and keep you in demand. Russel takes us step by step through how he works with people to usethese tools both to succeed in school and to succeed in the workplace.Resources that Russel refers to as integral to his methodsinclude: The Craft of Research, Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz,  Strategies for Struggling Writers by JamesCollins. #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #neurodiversity#dyslexia #AI #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor#development#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace#Leadershipmatters #connectedwork