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- The Silent Generation, baby boomers, Generation X, millennials, Gen Z -- we're all in the workforce together. How are our assumptions about each other holding us back from working and communicating better? Social psychologist Leah Georges shows how we're more similar than different and offers helpful tactics for navigating the multigenerational workplace.
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Oh, thank goodness someone is finally speaking sense about generations. Thank you.
Good topic. As a project manager I have been working from the last 15 years with team members from 18 to 70. Never had any problem dealing with multigenerational team.
I don’t see the fuzz around it.
@ninjarawr21 I am curious as to your anecdotal evidence of differences between generations. Care to give us some examples of things you have noticed?
ninjarawr21 cognitive problems leads people to have trouble to interpretation. I said I never had problems because I focused on knowing The differences between generations and learned how to deal with it...
Either you are twelve years old or I would strong ply recommend that you start reading book so that this MAYBE help you to solve your cognitive issues. 🤦🏻♀️
Magari pleas do let me know WHEN I said that the difference does not exist
. I am not denying anything.... poor thing...🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
ninjarawr21 wrong guessing dear.....but ok... people are entitled to build their whole theories about people they never met...
Shame on you. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@ninjarawr21 yes, "management" can be a cushy job, but as many good STEM jobs fare as well or better. i know exactly who gets paid what on my team (i sign the invoices and the time cards), and plenty of my STEM folks are paid more than i make: some even twice and more what i do. your statement, unfounded and undefended, makes me wonder if you have life experience on both sides of that table and whether you're capable of making an objective, comparative judgment. maybe you need to switch careers - if you think you're up to the task - and want to shave down that heavy layer of salt in your mouth.
back to your point: i'm a structural engineer and architect and i manage construction projects from a mid-level position. my team ranges from CEOs and agency heads to established IT specialists and internationally-known architects to hardworking masons and pipefitters. the last meeting that i had yesterday was with a recent college grad engineer and a retirement-age landscaper over locust trees, climate change, and structural loading of concrete over time.
i'll take what vivane has said and go further: i agree with this speaker. generations don't exist. i see the evidence of this in the workplace; it's in the product that the members of my team produce and why and how they produce it. *ageism* exists. i also see this in the workplace and it needs to be discussed. just as the speaker says, a person's age can flavor a conversation and lock it out of all creativity and productivity before anyone opens his mouth.
but i'd do a lot of people a disservice and lose a lot of respect if i didn't meet every person where they were. how can a productive conversation be had when people walk into a conversation already convinced that they know the furthest extent of everyone's abilities, and convinced that no matter how much more experience people gain or how hard people work, they will never change or improve? spoiler alert: you can't. i don't know what your responsibilities are (frankly, i think we're all keen to see your side of the story), but the buck - usually a few hundred million bucks - stop with me. i therefore can't afford to waste time and money, poorly allocating the set resources that i have to get a job done, just because i follow the crap advice that "any STEM person from a specific generation always has to be treated a certain way". i'm not going to assume the 18-year old is more competent with a computer than a 40-year-old. i won't assume that the 65-year-old is going to be more level-headed than a 30-year-old.
now, i hope that you realize the irony that i'm dealing with in starting a conversation with you, the dude whose first comment is to broad-sweepingly disparage "all STEM" and "all management" in tidy, grossly inaccurate boxes of generalizations. your first statement certainly suggests that you think that you know a thing or two about me; i shouldn't, therefore, bother to have a conversation with you, and shouldn't raise my expectations that anything positive will come of trying to disillusion you.
but maybe this isn't a waste of my time... or yours. maybe i'll watch to see if you'd rather come join the rest of us down here and treat us like we're human and equal. or maybe you'll just whip out the hip, hottest new 'snowflake' generational word and suggest that we're all 'triggered' and try to make a clean getaway. your call.
I had to watch this video for a class I am taking. So far this is the only one that I have actually enjoyed watching. Thank you.
In conclusion, see anyone as an individual, not a group. Specifically in America's increasingly diverse workforce and growing.
Meet someone in their onliness, and you may cure your loneliness.
The divisiveness isn't a side effect of generational politics, it's the whole point of it. When the New York Times published an editorial saying Gen X shares the blame for Boomers' misdeeds, that wasn't too educate us or help us navigate the workforce. It was to get us arguing and scowling at each other. And it's done for the same reason that the public was divided between races, or between citizens and immigrants, or by religious sect.
Insightful. Thanks. So true.
Half of Gen X is already dead. We knew from the beginning that we were a market demographic and didn't wanna play. We were Millennials 1.0, the original disappointment. We were also literally a very small generation. Generations exist because of zeitgeists and shared historical perspective, but not much else. Also, regardless of your age, if you're poor, the world is trying to eat you alive.
Sorry to ramble, have a good one.
@@autodidactic You don't think rich people have problems too?
@@NChambernator Nah, they age and hurt like the rest of humanity.
Career over Jobs... Always remember that. Be your own boss and do what you love!! Success for ALL
Help me to achieve this!!!! Please
@@glowinthadark Simply find your passion and pursue it. The same 40 hrs they expect you to work every week for someone can be used to master your craft and find other ways to find success. Dont settle for a job thats jus gone get you by. Good Luck
@Kurt E. Clothier
Failure is life. It's how we learn our greatest lessons. However, there's nothing noble about giving up.
@Kurt E. Clothier That's very true... Everyone can't be a CEO or Leader but there's enough opportunity for those that can to pursue that if they choose.
Be your own boss and work 80 hours a week. Be your own boss and get sued. Be your own boss and get IRS audited. Repeatedly.
So as the world crumbles is Gen Z named as such because it's the last before the culling?
This is the funniest thing I read in mouths. LMAO.😂😂😂💜
Yeah I agree, you just have to talk to people and get to know them and value their contribution. I get along with people 30 yrs older than me and learn things from them; as well as some people 6 yrs younger than me are totally different and have different values. You just have to put the effort in to get to know your coworkers for a more fulfilling work experience. After all, you work all your life, you might as well make the most of it.
Personally, I was planning to retire as soon as I realized I would have to go out to work. That was my goal. The workplace has _always_ been horrible to be in.
She’s very thoughtful (unique) and very smart! Thanks from a younger boomer 1963.
Politically, Generation Alpha will make it so socially tight on what you say or do, it will make cancel cuture seem like
they just got out of Sunday school. They care for people, the environment, fainess, kindness, these are great attributes. But politically? The motive? So powerful on protesting for social justice and 100 % All Inclusiveness it wll be " Bend over and take it" . Agree or else. No absolute morals or truth. Anything goes as long as it leads to YOUR Happy ness. 2 gender's as God designed? Your marked for exclusion not inclusion. Just a belief in a God of judgment will get you jailed or "Excluded". There extremely intelligent , Alpha. They know, God as He is and what He say's isnt really "All Inclusive". So, more Woke churches, tell you what you want to hear. Doesnt fit the Agenda? Cherry pick and " Leave out what else He said and not TELL YOU. So, bend over and shut up. The total end of traditional values. The Constitution? Old fashioned. Lets amendment to fit our Causes for All Inclusive. Better yet, Capitalism is so unfair. Lets replace it to a more Marxist-All Socialist form of government. That way, everone thinks the same, believes the SAME THINGS. What a utopia. Were all the same. No need to debate, its all been decided for you. Your individuality will be "Dealt with" could be more Hate laws. So worded that a simple kind disagreement will be a fine or a lawsuit. So get your opinions out while your able to. Alpha will be of voting age. And guess who there for? Democrats that lean LEFT. The Left would have thrown President Kennedy under the bus. Yeah, Democrats, Our Party is that far gone. And our Party will be the Vehicle that Alpha uses to empower there ONE for ALL beliefs.
good point!
One of my most annoying experiences as an undergrad involved an informal journal for a psychology class, where I mentioned the idea of a "pop culture generation."
I was marked down because I contradicted the demographic system she was familiar with, and for her, it was so deeply ingrained she could not understand that there are other ways to associate humans.
"contradicted the demographic system SHE was familiar with". One of the biggest problems with understanding generations and many other things in the world is people not being able to see outside of what they're used to. Seeing things in a different way, even if that way is more beneficial, is incredibly scary cause it involves change.
I've heard of the 'sándwich' stage, and them 5 generations. Tell you the truth, I think I personally embark all 5 each day. Depending on the mood of times. And, how I am feeling that particular day. I, am X... IT'll be over soon quit rushing, I say
So people, as a culture/group, don't change over time? There are measurable difference, for example levels of anxiety/depression. This is a simplistic critique of the idea of generationals that supplies an equally simplistic solution. There should be a label for talks that more about feel good stories than about science.
So good!
This is awesome🔥🔥
Gen z is screwed
Yeah sounds about right
This was insightful, well-written, and well performed. Great Ted Talk!
Me, showing up to work in full plate armor: "You wanted shoulder pads, but my normal clothes don't have anything to attach pauldrons with."
Awesome! Applies to all sorts of labelism, I think...
Generations make no sense to me either. Just look at all the exceptions to the rule within whatever generation YOU are in. You're just harming your own ability to better understand people if you stereotype/typify. But yes to the better coffee. Otherwise I don't understand how this talk has down-votes.
Generational gaps are definitely there! And they are most profound for the more recent of generations. And so we need a lot of flexibility in our approaches and ways of thinking!
She's a mix of Anne Hathaway and Tina Fey.
Mrs. Doubtfire.
Nice view on the topic :)
we've been taking our own placebos for quite a while
Damn WELL SAID!
I friggin love her glasses... And the fact that she matches her shoes with them impressed me. GenX approves
Great topic ☺️!!
It's stereotype that puts people into generations. We are all ONE continuous group of people, especially when you consider the large number of immigrants from around the world who don't come with this stereotype.
Love her shiny shoes
The idea of stereotypes is to give broad overviews of things in a labeled way. These labels and stereotypes are helpful regardless in understanding other people's thinking. When it comes to youth versus age. The funny part is how often youth seems to think they know better, and in some cases maybe they do. However, how much more often is it that the youth makes mistakes? Those mistakes made over time and efforts are changed into wisdom, and that is something that is overlooked with the older. While we may have difficulties with the gap between tech-savy youth versus the older generations who struggle with tech, there is a divide but one that will continue to be as tech changes. There is a lot to people and surely everyone knows that the label of a generation (Baby-boomer, X, Millennial,Z) is not their entire summation but give possible credit by the stereotypical (or average) person within the labeled generation.
What I was once into before, I no longer am, what I once thought I knew, I know differently now. Not all stereotypes are accurate, nor do most people consider them as the entirety of who they are. Just as Scorpio doesn't define me entirely but may give you awareness to personality traits I may have. Just cause I am X generation doesn't mean that the stereotype isn't accurate, or false. It's a generalization to gain better possible understanding. I deal with all sorts of people and just because someone is Millennial, or Baby-Boomer offers no real context because what is important is the individual's actions and behaviors themselves, period.
Except stereotypes do nothing to help understanding. They are literally the antithesis of helpful. As the presenter pointed out if you want to understand someone meet them, get to know them. Assuming something is not knowing about that thing.
Not sure I follow: how are stereotypes helpful, exactly? To me it seems like they just make it easier to ignore someone's humanity, an excuse to avoid actually getting to know people.
@@armyfreak9389 but assumption first is because so many people are into that stereotypical category. Look at throughout history and you can see that. Just like the silent generation is because of during the two World Wars it was mostly silent and they had to be differently than the baby boomer generation which is call that because everybody came back from the wars and now they're having babies left and right which why is called the Boomer. And often people in these categories act a certain way. Not everybody but they often do. Hence why the stereotypical come about. But yes we should at the same time get to know somebody you're further before make a complete judgement. So in a sense it is good to have these generational labels. It helps provide an idea
@@divergentthg7925 No, it provides an assumption. Based on nothing. What it doesn't do is provide helpful information.
@@armyfreak9389 it's sad that you think that way
Our opinions make our realities
She's so beautiful, hard times make strong men, Strong men make good times and good times make weaker men.
Shoulder pads are nice.
Well said and very true .
Love that
There a bigger picture at play. But we all ask the smallest question, why?
This is awesome. Less judgment and self righteousness and more understanding and acceptance.
Just from the title and the thumbnail I expected some pretentious BS, but to my delight it turned out quite the opposite.
I have delved into these generational definitions myself before and know how arbitrary and stupid they are. Nice to hear I'm not the only one who sees it that way.
My sis brings me here !
“We’re preparing for this wave of millennials to come to work”
Since most if not all millennials are adults or have been for maybe a decade, I would hope they’re prepared.
Not snarking @ this presenter, just at corporations in general for refusing to hire people.
@ninjarawr21 IM a ScOrpIo. I wAs bOrN iN aPrIl. I hAve a EfFicIent temPerMent. Generations are bullshit
@ninjarawr21 So as someone born in 1991, what am I then? I have always been called a millenial, and considered myself as one at least. That's what I've been told. The entire stereotyping is hugely misused, though. Like the whole "participation trophy" trope. That is purely an American phenomenom. Never have I ever recieved any ribbon or prize for just participating (and I have never seen one in real life), yet that stereotype is constantly being thrown at me, purely based on the year I was born. I'm pretty sure it's purely an American concept, first of all, and second of all, I know a lot of American Millenials who have never been subjected to these participation trophies, either. All these stereotypes are whack and serve no purpose. I qualified as a vet two years ago, I'm working my butt of day, night, weekends and Christmas to save animals and help as much as I can to a ridiculous low wage, yet I'm labelled as lazy, stupid and with no worth ethic, again due to my year of birth. These generational stereotypes need to go, they are only causing grief and frustration.
@ninjarawr21 Huh, well there you go. So many people have labelled me as millenial, but if the cut-off is at 97 then that is way off.
I’m going out today and buying red eyeglasses.
Copycat
Everyone is Stupid that my be the most ture I have ever seen in a video.
BT 2020 where you at
I see only one gap between people: on one side those who never get out of “their home” and are living pretending to know realities they niether have eard of and on the other side those who had the chance or the desire to meet other’s realities
Sounds like a bit of common sense -- FINALLY! 5/2019
My new fav word: onlyness
Leah: "millennials are hopeful"
Gen - z: "we don't do that here"
Jim might not have been the best name to give an example.
To quote a boomer. 'We will be in charge soon' :)
How many silent generations are still working to this day and age?
1964 is the generally accepted upper limit of the boomer generation.
Boomers bank accounts are in the upper limits too
And while we're at it, lets also apply the same logic to gender, sexual orientation etc.
There's a name for it: Individualism.
Spoken like a true millennial :} I'M PLAYING!
Generations might be a nebulous thing. Isn't "Cohort" is more common in the literature?
It's a group of people banded together or treated as a group.
The most frequent use of the term I've run across is in psychological studies.
*Whatever we do, we have to detach from all labels, in order to fully grasp the life and live in fulfilment.*
Stereotypes are created because they are actual social norms between those groups in question.
My sisters were born in the 60s and I was born in 80 and there is no way we have the same views or should be in the same group. Not that I have a prob with them we're just very different. Also the millennials I work with are as awesome as the older people except the older people are not as willing to change as the work does as the millinials
I'm Gen X, I thought I was a boomer
What year were you born? She's wrong about the upper limit of the boomers, it's 1964 in most places I look online.
Thomas Wood Definitions are all wrong, because they all are based on personal beliefs and perspectives. Their simply lines on a chart meant to divide people into categories that can help make people rich for marketing and influence.
It is a mystery that the story of the master's degree comes out. It's also discomfort to make fun of companies.
She reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes
Stereotypes exist for a reason
My understanding is 1945 that starts the Boomer area. I don't have an uncle that's I think 1944 and he thinks just like a silent generation
Good
I am a direct support professional and still attending school and am always the youngest at my work sites. I do direct care in group homes and substitute teaching. I am 19, about to be 20. Always the youngest. People don’t really want to group me even with the 21, 22, 23 year olds I work alongside. They’re seen and treated as adults but I am still seen and treated as if I am a high schooler not the professional that I am. An outlier. The 50-60 year olds at work are always asking me how long it will take me to complete my degree and what my plan is and when will I be done with school and I think it’s uncouth to try to explain that I don’t even know how I am going to keep affording school which hinders my progress. My mom is 56 and says the same about how I don’t have my degrees completed and how I don’t get how life works. It makes me feel behind everyone else. As if I’m one of the kids we work with not one of the fellow employees.
No, the idea of generation isn't real
You're welcome
I have had that exact same comment at work - that I need to wear heels and shoulder pads if I want to be taken seriously - this was by my manager before a client meeting. I wore smart business dress every day. My male colleague who wore kaki cargo trousers, trainers and comic book T-shirt’s to work was not advised how to dress for the same customer meeting. Being a young woman combines both generational and sexist judgement from (usually older) colleagues. I am an expert in my field and highly qualified to talk in such situations, far more so than the male colleague who attended the meeting with me, but my boss thought no one would take me seriously just on the basis of my knowledge, skills and ability to hold my own in the meeting...
You can't deny the fact that social environment do influence your personality and therefore a part of your future. Generation has ALWAYS been a discussion. The saying "back in my days" doesn't come from just 3 generations ago. There will be always an old and a new generation... and these generitons will always have people who know what is a value in life an some people who will have no clue about what to value. Sholder pads just happen to be the motivator of some people you know... not everyone, and not everyone thinks that will solve generational issues, please be real...
Horoscopes do the same thing. Categorize people by their birth month. I guess you believe that too then.
These are just marketing labels if you don't get that then don't get much in life!
That glasses tho...... super nerdy
There's no such thing as a generation type thing I was born in 1981 and I had no tecnology in my home I had the best and most free childhood ever, and I know my manners, unlike most of thus new young kids and some older people that don't even say. May I, please and thank you.
"There are no generations, but let me also insult everyone younger than me"
Boomers love effective communication? That's news to me
@buzzfeed quizzes
Don’t stereotype ? I hoped for more
Generation Boomer not doing the majority of the google searching. So the search criteria is being done and recorded by everyone else.
I was born in 1998. So am I a millenial. I thought I was of gen z.
Mrs. Doubtfire.
Why you forget the Silent Generation?
Society is stupid.
CONYROLLED BY few people.
Im not a conspiracy theorist.
I just can see,with my eye and process with my brain,instead of following What people do.
SOCIETY IS STUPID AND CONYROLLED
IM NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORIST
I CAN SEE WITH EYE AND PROCESS WITH BRAIN
I DON'T FOLLOW
Nice copy pasta wondering where you got it from?
Society is stupid.
CONYROLLED BY few people.
Im not a conspiracy theorist.
I just can see,with my eye and process with my brain,instead of following What people do.
@@maxybaer123 ???¿??¿ whats in it to COPY, thats just my perspective of the world, im not a sheep.
@@yourcommentmightnotworksop9987 Huh well i see most flat earthers (who i have studied alot) and any conspiracy theorists in general seem to say the exact thing i thought you were saying it as a troll and it was a copy pasta. but i guess your realy that lacking in self awareness.
@@maxybaer123 not to be rude but i like see world in different way, in a way those conspiracy theorist nd flat earthier think, thing is,they question,others dont so when they hear such stuff, they think those people are mad, like who thought life could survive in Antarctica, SUPER HIGH DEGREE science people denied it, but there were people who said it was possible, they were mocked at, but walla, now we have life in MARS TOO(sounds strange doesn't it),
See there are trillions of nuerons firing at this very moment, and some of them are genetically superior, while others through studies, so whenb uestioners question,the one who studies nd have degrrr nd stuff, thier self ego of higher study make thier brain think the other is stupid.
But i mean dont they say, KNOWING IS WHEN YOU REALIZE YOU DONT ANYTHING.
Well, if you understand generations are ARCHETYPES not stereotypes, then it's a whole different discussion.
Weird
The funny thing about statistics is that if you leave one item out it changes the results dramatically. The Millennials need that raised to feed Silicon Valley, those Xbox games are expensive not to mention the Xbox itself. And the iPhone that they all have to have the latest one at $1,200 when I'm talking to you on a $200 Android right now. That works just fine
No, my dude, they need a raise because the rent for a studio apartment less than 2 hours' drive from their workplace costs at least half their paycheck.
Whenever someone says “what if I told you,” you’re about to hear the most annoying fact ever
What if i told you i was gonna like this comment
It's a called a hook, idiot.
Isn't labeling generations the foundation for stereotyping?
if anything Millennials should be known as the betrayed generation
MusicIsMyLife401 Everyone before them (depending on when the “Millennial” generation starts and ends, wether it’s 1980, 1990, 2000, or 2010) is trying to vilify them like the beast from Beauty and the Beast.
Classic straw man argument. Create a problem that doesn’t exist and then tell people how to solve it.
She was arguing against herself.
3rd
Generation Z 🙋 for being screwed
She's wearing shoulder pads. Now. So she took that advice seriously.
First
Right off the bat Ms. Georges lost me with her inaccurate description of the Greatest generation. She is conflating the Greatest generation with the Silent generation that followed them. No one from the Greatest generation is in the workforce presently as the youngest of them would be 95 in 2022.
She bases much on this on the assumption that generations... an entirely conceptual social construct doesn't exist... It's a concept, if people use it it exists.
Verum Crepitus So does slavery still exist if a child feels trapped and “owned” by their parents?
@@Vraptor1 no
Verum Crepitus Yet that’s a concept many children have, including teens, and it’s something they see as an appropriate concept and they use it.
@@Vraptor1 lol, I made this comment ten months ago, I don't even know which video this this
Won't someone think of the poor, oppressed Boomers? Lmao.
Don’t think Boomers are poor,have you seen their bank accounts?,they are lmao all the way to the bank or one of their many properties while millennials pay extortionate rent to live in a glorified cupboard
People have taken a small sample of personalities and used that to stereotype a whole generation.
kinda uncool of someone to google that my generation is stupid
No, Gen Z started in 1997.
The problem is that the curriculum they teach in universities all around the world are based on stereotypes... When I asked how can we talk about gender stereotypes or behaviorist theories in 2000+ by the time each one is different... And all I got as an answer was because the books say so... 😂
they dont ..
It’s all about relating to people, college is useless. People stopped becoming successful when federal income tax became a thing. The wealthiest Americans never paid taxes and those same Americans developed the Federal Reserve.