Engaging Gen Z in the workplace
Gen Z from headaches into heroes
Delivering bespoke workshops for your team to better understand your Gen Z team members and bridge the generational divide.
Why Gen Z?
Working with the next generation has never been a walk in the park.
Gen Z however seem to be coping a lot of headlines about how difficult they are to manage in the workplace, that many are quietly quitting, too sensitive to feedback, disengaged, demanding, entitled, or as Jodie Foster has said ‘really annoying’!
In our post-covid world of hybrid work, mental health issues on the rise and use of technology at an all time high, the youngest team members are challenging the ‘way things are’ and the ‘way it’s been done’ and challenging the playbook.
According to the World Economic Forum, Gen Z will account for more 25% of the workforce by next year. Last year, a study by Mccrindle found 72% of Gen Z workers we’re looking to leave their current role, 21% actually did! Leaving 51% looking to leave and disengaged at work (below).
Many employees are taking increasingly more “sick” days, silently quitting on the clock and resigning. These all reflect in higher costs for businesses and extra workload for managers.
Gallup has estimated that a disengaged employee costs an organization approximately 34% of their salary, that’s $3,400 for every $10,000 of salary. In Australia alone, Gallup estimate that employee disengagement costs Australian businesses AU$211 billion annually.
Why they could be a problem?
Gen Z workers over the next 12 months.
We see the greatness of Gen Z with their strong values, their relationship with technology as digital natives and their flexibility with change. If correctly engaged this make Gen Z a highly valuable and productive group.
We believe we can help you to activate changes to engage Gen Z employees. We achieve this by running evidence-based workshops with your managers and with Gen Z employees. These help you build insights, plans and actions that are unique to your organisation and which achieve Gen Z engagement, financial payback and cultural benefits.
The good news!
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Roberta Katz* reported that the Gen Z research finding that surprised them most was that "nearly every single [Gen Z interviewed] said their favourite form of communication was "in person."
*Roberta Katz, a senior research scholar at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) and co-author of “Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age”
The kind of responses we’re expecting to get from our workshops…
“Fun session, so refreshing to be asked challenging questions and to speak openly with collegues.”
— T.King
“Wasn’t just talk, we’ve got a plan that we’ve all contributed to and set up follow up steps.”
— K.Love
“So appreciated being given space and time to contribute and then really dive into changes”
— H.Mcdougal