Seeking Insights on Leadership Challenges in a Multi-Generational Workplace, servant leadership vs old people and fear

[Anonymous]

It is a huge red flag that you used ChatGPT to convey your management style and seek recommendations. No one on this board can help you until you fully understand the depth of the issue without needing AI writing it out for you.

[Anonymous]

Shoving people into generations and assigning them personality traits is the same as saying you hate managing anyone who is an Aquarius. Stop reading tea leaves and manage people based on them as people.

Generational trends do affect how people view information but it’s not so simple as to quantity people based on it as their only descriptive adjective. I’m exhausted from the obsession with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in my 30s and I'm suspicious of people who refer to their own management as "servant leadership." How are you serving? What exactly does it look like? Nobody objects to a boss who supports them in reaching their full potential. If they do, it probably means you're doing it poorly, or not actually doing that, or have a very different vision of their potential than they do.

In other words, I'm not convinced this is an "old people" issue, or that we're getting the full story. I'd like to hear an example of a clash as told by an employee. And why on earth would you have to run your DCUM post through ChatGPT?

I am 70 and I agree with all of this.

I’m 50 and I also agree. I don’t think OP has come back to provide us with an actual example rather than all this corporate-speak chatGPT gobbledygook from the first post. I would guess the younger workers are sucking up to them but inwardly rolling their eyes and the older workers are thinking “I’m too old for this sh-t.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm in my 30s and I'm suspicious of people who refer to their own management as "servant leadership." How are you serving? What exactly does it look like? Nobody objects to a boss who supports them in reaching their full potential. If they do, it probably means you're doing it poorly, or not actually doing that, or have a very different vision of their potential than they do.

In other words, I'm not convinced this is an "old people" issue, or that we're getting the full story. I'd like to hear an example of a clash as told by an employee. And why on earth would you have to run your DCUM post through ChatGPT?

I am 70 and I agree with all of this.

I’m 50 and I also agree. I don’t think OP has come back to provide us with an actual example rather than all this corporate-speak chatGPT gobbledygook from the first post. I would guess the younger workers are sucking up to them but inwardly rolling their eyes and the older workers are thinking “I’m too old for this sh-t.”

I hope people read this thread and gain insight into why ChatGPT can’t actually think on your behalf.

[Anonymous]

We're probably all participating in some sort chatgpt experiment initiated by op right now.

[Anonymous]

OP reads like AI.

[Anonymous]

My dear OP,

I'm concerned you're hitting your peak. With the sort of critical thinking you're displaying here, I'm not sure there's a lot of potential for you to climb further. You have already achieved a lot, so please don't be disappointed. Efficient and respected managers customize their leadership to every single person they interact with, and when communicating to groups, they do their best to simplify the message and avoid trends and buzzwords that can be intensely annoying, even to the generation they are targeted to.