Dr G's Think Tank on Resilience 24: Genz Resilience in the Workplace: What's Real?
Episode notes
Welcome back for Season 4 of Dr. G’s Think Tank on Resilience. This season we are attacking the thorniest, most difficult resilience topics. We started with a bang:
What do GenZ employees need (and is it different than what they want) to be resilient at work?
Our incredible guests really delivered the goods. Alice Kao is the CEO of Sender One, a network of climbing gyms around California. She employees almost exclusively GenZ coaches and staff. Jonah Craine is a college senior who has worked a variety of frontline jobs as well as stepping into leadership. Last week on the Think Tank they spoke plainly – and sometimes painfully – about the obstacles between GenZ workers and their supervisors and bosses. They debated what’s real – is there a COVID gap in social skills in this generation? Is it the employer’s obligation to address those? Are GenZ using COVID as a crutch? What are “safe spaces” and what do workplaces need to do to create them? If employers do that work does that make GenZ able to hear critical feedback?