S03E16 Leading The 20-Somethings Episode

The Leader Learner Podcast

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

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