Gen Z skills

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:genx and boomers need to retire and take a nap

Be kind. You’re going to be in their shoes before you know it.

Aww, cut PP some slack. They can't possibly know that plenty of Gen X are only mid-40s and nowhere near retirement age unless someone tells them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an older gen z (27) and was wondering what skills senior workers find helpful from Gen Z, and if there are areas where you see Gen Z can improve in the workplace? I have great relationships at work but don’t feel like me and my peers are where our coworker 5 years older than us were 5 years ago.

Please take the dumb hardware out of your face. Your bosses boss hates it and gets on your boss about it. Your direct boss doesn't care, like literally doesn't care; but is tired of hearing about it from their boss. It also makes you a non-starter for promotion.

[Anonymous]

- Don’t talk too much about your feelings and personal life. We all have personal issues and your boss isn’t your therapist.
- Learn how to write. Most Gen Z’s I know can’t write a proper paragraph.
- Don’t share anything about work on social media, especially while you are doing something unrelated to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- Don’t talk too much about your feelings and personal life. We all have personal issues and your boss isn’t your therapist.
- Learn how to write. Most Gen Z’s I know can’t write a proper paragraph.
- Don’t share anything about work on social media, especially while you are doing something unrelated to work.

Also
- Learn to make eye contact when speaking to someone
- Learn how to greet people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious, what is wrong with that sentence? I’ve never gotten feedback that my writing is poor, so wondering what I could do better next time.

“I” is a subject. “Me” is an objective. You wrote “me and my peers” as the subject.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/grammar/me-vs-i/

Professionals do not employ Grammarly, AI, or ChatGPT.

What antiquated professional experience do you live in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're terrible. None of the 20-somethings on my team know how to use Microsoft 365. I would like the Gen Z people to take Microsoft training. Sorry, but most enterprises don't use Google Docs, they use Microsoft. Learn it.

Also, accept your meeting invitations.

As someone who had a job at a start up that is way harder to get into than Harvard and is run by nearly all 20 somethings wiz kids I will tell you this is what I learned:

Grammer is a sign of a low IQ inefficient worker who is outdate. These kids are from the texting, slack era. They don't spell check and use Emojis. I would send a slack message asking for something and a IDK is fine, sign off and emoji is fine.

Anything Microsoft is dated. All email is outdated, using a phone is outdate.

I ran a department there for 2.5 years. When I quit I realized I sent zero emails to staff in my three years and got zero emails. We used GMAIL mainly for outside contact people if necessary. I never has a single phone call with anyone. Also at most did a meeting in Google once a week tops. I poke you in Slack or do a Google Hangout if necessary. And we had no set working hours.

Some people checked email at most once a month. A calendar invite, sounds dated. cant you slack me, do a Jira ticket, share the google doc etc. I will get back when I want, be is Sunday at 2am or Thursday night at midnight. And me sitting on sofa, eating Pizza watching the game you are lucky if I update that link you sent me or responded in slack.

Dont be a Boomer. Be a Zoomer.

Is this satire?

No as my old company was all about getting shit done. Anyone who wasted time editing, writing fancy was wasting time. For instance we were a period free company. Anyone putting a period at the end of a sentence was considered old and dumb. I am doing it here. It wastes time. Capitalizing words wastes time.

Pretty much my four replies were:
IDK, a thumbs up emoji, Forward to person who knows what to reply, answer question no capitals or periods as short as possible.

It is a huge Boomer thing to use periods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're terrible. None of the 20-somethings on my team know how to use Microsoft 365. I would like the Gen Z people to take Microsoft training. Sorry, but most enterprises don't use Google Docs, they use Microsoft. Learn it.

Also, accept your meeting invitations.

Umm that’s not true. A few F500 employers are full migrated to google docs. Bc of google exe sitting on their board.

Young employees dont want to work with Outlook, Powerpoint and Word sign of a outdated old fashioned company

[Anonymous]

Gen Z speaks in monotone voices. Everything sounds the same. They don’t know the art of elegance, class, tone, how to sell something, how to connect. And everything to them is “new” that hasn’t been done before…and they know this without realizing that what they say or do has indeed been done before and recycled under a different name from so many generations before. They also like to behave as if they know more but in reality they don’t despite having the most powerful computer glued to their hands.

That said, there are exceptions. But increasingly rare.

[Anonymous]

Learn presentation skills. If you don't have them already. Don't just throw info in a report or in charts. Make them tell the story you need to tell. Succinctly. Accurately. Persuasively. Doesn't matter if you are in sales, policy, law, research.

Tell the story.

[Anonymous]

I’m a millennial but also a manager. Gen Z lacks social skills. They don’t answer phone calls and aren’t good at small chat either. So please work on that. Another manager told me that they called their coworker and the coworker refused the call and just chatted back -what do you need?

I don’t think there’s anything they’re better at. Millennials and Gen x were good at tech when Boomers wanted help, but now we’re all good at tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an older gen z (27) and was wondering what skills senior workers find helpful from Gen Z, and if there are areas where you see Gen Z can improve in the workplace? I have great relationships at work but don’t feel like me and my peers are where our coworker 5 years older than us were 5 years ago.

Learn how to use the desk phone. Put people on hold, transfer them, etc.

I’m a fed with terrible technology and we haven’t had desk phones in maybe 5 years. Everyone uses Teams calling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A few reasons why, many not your fault.

Management training programs have been cut, going to On the Job Training pre-covid that is near impossible to do virtually or hybrid.

HR and Woke in the workforce limits what bosses can say to workers.

Less team goals and more individual goals over last decade. For example I got JIRA tickets, ServiceNow tickets, annual work required that my raises and bonus based off. They give zero credit for helping co-workers. So people have little incentive to help others.

Less time in office. Now this is both ways.

My first Job I had a formal Management Training Program. Eight weeks of intensive training ten hours a day with grading and we were instructed every aspect of company, how to dress, how to do a business lunch, how to interview, how to manage staff, how to do presentations, how to use firm software, how to do performance review etc. I was then assigned an area with staff where I worked 50 hour weeks. My management training program the 15 of us kept in touch and my bosses and staff was with me the whole 50 hours. We often go to drinks after work, around 3-40 times a year plus we talk over lunch. I get a lot of great feedback and advice over beers.

So by 26 I was at a level that my co-workers who are under 40 have yet to reach. And my younger co-workers under 26 are operating at the level of a 21 year old.

That said you have to go and get it. Come to work more, find a mentor, learn on your own, go to company events, join industry groups, volunteer to work and/or speak at industry conferences, get active LinkedIn and get your grand out there and take LinkedIn on line courses.

We are not going back to what I got. So get it yourself.

How long do you want to blame Woke.
You have Trump, give it a rest.

[Anonymous]

Understanding and working with data, being able to tell a story visually.

If you can take a task or objective with big outlines and convert it to an executable item and develop an approach and solutions, you'll forever be employed. So many people need to be spoon fed every step. Basically be proactive but convert it to getting things actually done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Don’t talk too much about your feelings and personal life. We all have personal issues and your boss isn’t your therapist.
- Learn how to write. Most Gen Z’s I know can’t write a proper paragraph.
- Don’t share anything about work on social media, especially while you are doing something unrelated to work.

Also
- Learn to make eye contact when speaking to someone
- Learn how to greet people

I think this is basic but really important. A lot of the Gen Z employees at my agency do not even do basic pleasantries. They just stare or don't reply to greetings or pleasantries. You should at least say basic greetings like "good morning" or "how are you." Most people hate being at work early in the morning but you have to learn how to play the game of getting along at work. It does not matter if you realty feel happy or enthusiastic about your office. It is just basic etiquette.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Don’t talk too much about your feelings and personal life. We all have personal issues and your boss isn’t your therapist.
- Learn how to write. Most Gen Z’s I know can’t write a proper paragraph.
- Don’t share anything about work on social media, especially while you are doing something unrelated to work.

Also
- Learn to make eye contact when speaking to someone
- Learn how to greet people

I think this is basic but really important. A lot of the Gen Z employees at my agency do not even do basic pleasantries. They just stare or don't reply to greetings or pleasantries. You should at least say basic greetings like "good morning" or "how are you." Most people hate being at work early in the morning but you have to learn how to play the game of getting along at work. It does not matter if you realty feel happy or enthusiastic about your office. It is just basic etiquette.

I'd say it's similar in meetings. There's a huge difference between people who look at the speaker, nod, and show that they're listening versus those who aren't making eye contact. My assumption is that they're not really paying attention. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's so. much. better to speak when people are looking at you.