The Challenge with Gen Z | Simon Sinek
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- čas přidán 8. 11. 2022
- Some of the human skills that are under-appreciated and under-trained in this age are: How to have difficult conversation, how to have an effective confrontation, and how to give and receive feedback.
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Simon is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together.
Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon has devoted his professional life to help advance a vision of the world that does not yet exist; a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are and end the day fulfilled by the work that they do.
Simon is the author of multiple best-selling books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, Together is Better, and The Infinite Game.
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I’m Gen X, 46. I may have been taught to ask for help, but it was demonized, by either staff or peers. You were ostracized for not understanding out of the gate
Is it me or does it seem that Americans are always complaining about previous generations? First, it was the baby boomers hating on Gen X, then Gen X hating on millennials, and now apparently it's the millennials hating on Gen Z? I think we have it backward. I mean, we raise these kids, and then at work, we demonize them? Why? Also, since I am just ranting here, it seems like a good time for me to add that older workers should be valued more. We need to value each other more and learn to work together as one instead of placing people in groups with labels just as Gen X, Z, boomers, millennials, etc.
Here’s the problem I have with his assessment. He says about 3 minutes in that when GenZ doesn’t get what they need from the relationships they have at work, they turn to social media and other places. He’s looking at it backwards. By the time they enter the workforce, their perception of reality has been significantly impacted by the messages they have been receiving on social media, which primarily make things look good and easy and exciting and fun. They aren’t turning to social media after they’ve been disappointed by work; they come to work with wrong impressions of hard work and reality because the images they’ve been consuming make life look easy, conflict-free and successful.
I would love to see more data in these talks. You're making these sweeping generalizations about an entire generation by sharing anecdotal examples. It's easy for these stories to appeal to the emotions of people who already agree with you. But, without substantial proof, you're sharing information that presents nearly 2 billion people as being exactly the same. People listen to you and this is just another form of black and white thinking.
A generation that lost touch with normality and replaced it with weirdness.
I’m GenZ, and I’ve been watching Simon Sinek since 2011. Just about, everything he says I agree with. And he totally hit me on the marker with this.
I’ve just finished my college applications. I wrote an entire essay on why I struggled so much when asking for help. I was one of the “gifted” kids, so I never once struggled in school. I then went into the STEM Programs at 17, and began struggling. I didn’t know how to ask for help, and was afraid too, because I felt it made me less of a person.
What makes him an expert on Gen Z? 😂
I have absolutely observed the directness and the black & whiteness from Gen Z. I completely agree that the skill and the courage to ask for help is key.
It's out of touch to say the company would give you a raise if only you had asked. Spend some time on r/anti-work; you'll find this is not reality. In fact, many companies are trying to save money/increase profit margins that progression or the chance of a raise is non-existent and often, a company will say they cannot afford to give a raise.
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If someone is asking for help or raise from managers, they just devalue it by giving you count of things on which you missed out to be perfect at the time of appraisal but whole year they will remain silent and will not come to you for feedback if someone is lacking on something, that is why people with hard skills prefer to leave the organisation than to caught up into baseless arguments
Simon Sinek highlights the struggles of today's young generation, which I personally relate to in dealing with stress and confrontation. It's apparent that there's a gap in teaching essential human skills. This also reminds me of how Lisa Haisha's mission to provide the training helps me have difficult conversations and cope with stress effectively, ultimately creating a better, more confident version of myself.
Same goes for relationsships between lovers or friends or even family members. Right now we've got the best methods and tools for conversation that this planet has ever seen but people simply aren't clever enough to use them properly.
I remember as a child asking for help at homr and have very negative responses everytime, so i developed a fear of asking for help and as a coping mechanism, i promised myself to do thing, on my own, not to depend on others and also seek solutions on my own/by myself...
Valuable insights, Simon! As leaders, we are in a position to help Gen Zs realize their full potential. No generation is perfect, and the best we can do is impart necessary human skills and develop the younger generation to be the best they can be.
I remember when Simon did these "Oh, those young people, they just need help, compassion, blablabla" videos when WE Gen Y were the young people.
I value Simon's views, and in most cases I find his words to be correct. However, I believe that making some of these labels is not correct, and not isolated to Gen Z.
This helps me understand my students better! It’s so true they come of as aggressive but I haven’t thought about how it’s hard to ask for help:
We had better check the mechanism(s) that enables this generation to have no fear of doing that or have no fear of quitting easily. As they socialize especially with people at work, they continue having a lot of problems in communication. That is clear that we have raised those young people. We absolutely miss out a big thing that is able to make them more equipped to deal with stress. We have to seek those mechanisms and make them better from the start.