S03E16 Leading The 20-Somethings Episode

May 7, 2024

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Check-In:

What's your favorite place in your neighborhood?

Big Ideas:

Common issues in phone-based children now adults - social isolation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction
Lack of in-person interactions and conflict, leaves them unable to resolve conflict in reality
Dopamine addiction online, leads to cycle of waiting for acknowledgement
Judging people in ways that we wouldn't do in real time
Cancel culture emphasized online
Sense of community is superficial online - high quantity, low quality
Anxiety - keeping up with social expectations and fear of not being accepted
How do leaders support Gen Z? Who is doing the accommodating?
History of the 13-year-old law on social media
No phone policies within schools
Withdrawals and failure to launch due to social options online
Sense of creation and confidence
Using vocational training to support people's confidence and purpose as a professional
Parents modeling phone-behavior
How can we create an environment and culture of engagement, even when we are online for meetings?
The closer and more visible the phone is to you, the more distracting it is
Handwriting notes and limiting access to distractions while in meetings
Phones can be dangerous for our work
Creating learning opportunities for employees around phone and/or social media challenges
Creating online community
Leaders modeling better online detoxing and communicating it with the team
Setting better work time boundaries for when to expect people to be online
Good psychological safety
Gamify non-screen time within a team or between teams
How often we go down a road and only in hindsight realize the issues
Meeting the younger generation where they are
Some younger people have been conditioned into this way of being, not chosen it
Work design - multiple/flex job sharing to create a sense of flexibility in their roles
Reverse mentoring - look at the strength of the technology
Employee Resources Groups for Gen Z
Let go of "When I was your age...."
Enter into conversations with the intent to listen, not speak
Be aware of who we are allowing to dictate your life and where there might be a value misalignment
Where are we jumping on bandwagons without looking at the long-term implications
Back-chaining behaviors so that people feel confidence
Being "good enough" without our phones and our social media accounts
Cultivating an internal sense of value within employees

Resources:

"The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
"Indistractable" by Nir Eyal
"Hooked" by Nir Eyal