Why Are GenZ Employees Failing at Work
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Statistics on GenZ show that they are considered much more difficult to manage that the other generations in the workplace. Here’s the problem and what you can do about it.
00:00 Intro
00:57 How was each generation seen?
01:38 Adapting to the demands of a job
02:33 Suggestion No 1
03:01 Suggestion No 2
03:21 Suggestion No 3
03:41 Suggestion No 4
04:06 Suggestion No 5
04:51 Outro
In a survey of 1300 managers, 74% of the respondents said they find GenZ more difficult to work with than other generations. And of those, 12% reported having to fire one within their first week on the job, and 27% in the first month. Many said they’d rather work with Millennials or Gen X employees, because they believe they’re more productive. By the way, of course, they are. They much more experienced than Gen Z is.
I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. People hire me for no BS coaching and career advice globally, because I make things so much easier for people and that can relate to a job search, hiring more effectively, managing and leading better, dealing with workplace issues, and much more.
Now, people tend to forget what it was like for their generation to enter the workforce, and what it was like and how they were perceived, I should say, as they entered. The Boomers were incompetent, didn’t fit in, hippies, lazy. Gen X– lazy, arrogant, unreliable, cynical, particularly self-oriented. Older millennials came to work and came to interviews with their helicopter parents. Younger millennials–Well, they found that work was a suggestion and were repulsed by the idea of having to be somewhere in the morning.
All of us have had to adapt to work. But every time a new generation enters the workforce, it’s kind of expected that they’re supposed to know what to do. And they’re dropped into a desk or into a job and they’ve had no experience or very little experience, and you expect them to hit the ground running. So I have some suggestions for you to avoid these problems because to me, once an employee fails, most of the time the issue is with you as a manager. It’s not them, they didn’t get hired by themselves. You selected them, you chose them. And then you believe that they’re supposed to know everything. So let me come and give you a couple of suggestions that I think will be helpful for you.
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And the first one is regular feedback, particularly when they first join. Don’t rely on the six-month review, because they’re not going to last that long. They need regular feedback. So it’s important to give them almost daily evaluations for what they did. Positive things that you noticed that they did, and suggestions for how they can improve and develop their skills.
They also like to believe that there’s going to be some work-life balance with work. So don’t expect them to work 90 hours a week, when they first join you. They don’t know how to pace themselves, of course, they’re going to exhaust out and wind up in situations where they’re going to disappoint.
Encourage them to talk regularly with you with a mentor, but foster open communications to help them learn from others what it is they need to know. And others (and that includes you) put regular time on your calendar to talk with them.
Give them an opportunity to grow. Now, obviously, we can’t do this in their first week, but they want to feel like they’re learning. And if they aren’t learning, if they’re doing things repetitively, you know, it’s kind of like Karate Kid. They don’t know what it is that they’re learning and how to contextualize it, and what they’re going to grow into. Make that apparent to them.
Also, and this goes back to the idea of open conversations, a collaborative work environment. They want to feel like they’re part of a team, that there’s someone that they can talk to, they can ask questions of. Obviously, this means that your people have to be open to this as well. And thus, if they’re not getting that, whose fault is that? Is it the victim, the Gen Z person, yours, your team? You’ve got to hold them accountable for your expectations. And that’s not just simply a Gen Z. But the people that you’re having worked with them to deliver what it is you need them to deliver, knowing that they’re still going to make mistakes.
So those are a couple of things that you can do pretty easily that are going to help them be more successful and cause you not to wash them out so quickly. I hope you found this helpful. I’m Jeff Altman. Visit my website, TheBigGameHunter.us There’s a ton in the blog that can help you. Plus schedule time for a free discovery call or a coaching session with me. If you have a couple of questions, schedule Trusted Advisor Services with me. I want to help.
At the website, the blog has a ton there to help you plus the video courses, information about my books, and guides– a lot there to help. Lastly, connect with me on Linkedin at linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter.
Have a terrific day and most importantly, be great.
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