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Gen Z is entering the workforce with new perspectives and expectations. In this podcast, we’re here to listen to their stories and experiences – their successes and frustrations - and help employers understand the mindset and perspectives of the up and coming workforce. Employers can’t dictate what their young employees find meaningful—what they can do, however, is empower them to create their own sense of purpose and authentic connections. Our curriculum is designed to help them do exactly that, EV Leader Lab is committed to paving the way for more curious, engaged and connected, young professionals in the workplace.

  1. DEC 18

    Your History Shapes How You show Up.

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz This is the fifth and final episode in our series on SELPH as an acronym for what it means to be human.  The H in SELPH reminds us that we are all Historical beings.  This means that the stories we form about how the world works as we are growing up continue to shape how we show up as adults.  But we are not slaves to this history.  Embodiment training will help you move beyond limiting stories and show up in a way that better serves what you hope to accomplish in the world. Timm and Amanda provide examples of limiting stories from their personal experiences and discuss the importance of becoming aware of how they hold us back. The current cohort of young professionals entering the workforce are showing up in ways that are predictable based on some key events in their relatively short lives. Embodiment training can help them see where their history helps and hinders, but it is important for leaders in organizations to have curiosity about what is shaping Gen Z behaviors as well. #Storiesweliveby, #FactandStory, #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership  #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork

    13 min

  2. DEC 1

    Gen Z and the Design of Your Devices

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. Our guest today, Nick Cawthon is a veteran UX Designer, Researcher and Strategist based in the Silicon Valley area.  We asked Nick in to talk to us about how the User Experience industry is integrating Gen Z and how Gen Z, being the first native users of handhelds,  is impacting User Interfaces. Nick is Principle of Guage Consultancy and Adjunct Professor in the Data Laboratory in the Design Strategy MBA program at the California College of the Arts.  He is an organizer for the Interaction Designer Association and Customer Experience Association San Francisco Chapters and does a lot of invited talks at places like Xerox PARC, Google, HeavyBit, PeopleNerds and many others. Nick shares the story of how drawing and design ignited his passion and then the journey of growing from designer to strategic advisor in many different industries. As a technologist, Nick provides some very interesting and unique perspectives on AI, how it can help, how it can hinder and even a general attitude that is more productive than viewing it as one or the other.  Nick invites Gen Z to strap on the “jetpack” of AI and use it to show how efficient and effective today’s young professionals can be.

    41 min

  3. NOV 13

    The Power of Practices

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. In this Episode, Timm and Amanda continue to share Bob Dunham’s SELPH acronym that describes the elements we all embody as human beings. In this episode we hone in on the element of “Practice”. We describe 3 ways we use “practice” in our embodied training curriculum.  First there are practices that developed during our formative years that was may not be very aware of but are part of the way we show up. We also discuss how our courses help you deliberately develop new practices in line with your cares and goals.  And finally we discuss the idea of being in practice to develop new capacities in your mind and body that you can use when you need them in daily life and work.

    12 min

  4. OCT 30

    What Leaders Can Learn from Marines About Integrating Gen Z

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.  Today’s guest, Olaolu Ogunyemi, is a U.S. Marine Officer, award-winning author, leadership mentor, and the founder of Parent-Child-Connect. Olaolu equips parents, teachers, and aspiring leaders to raise confident kids, lead with integrity, and leave a legacy that outlives them. And lately he is sharing his wisdom with lots of young people entering the workforce.  His new book,Lead Last, is a bold call to servant leadership in a world obsessed with the spotlight.  More than any other guest we’ve had, Olaolu provides great insights into how the armed forces are responding, and in some cases adapting, to the entry of Gen Z.  Olaolu begins by sharing his unique way of helping people understand the differences between how people have been raised in different generations.  His question of what is your favorite Disney movie really gets the point across.  He also shares how Gen Z is showing up differently from previous generations in the workplace, including clear strengths such as technology, autonomy and collaboration, as well as advice for how organizational leaders can encourage Gen Z rather than alienating them, based on his experiences in the Marine Corps.  Thorughout this episode, Olaolu shares how his own experiences growing up  have informed his advice for others and has inspired him to reach out to children and adults through writing children’s books.  #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #usmarinecorps #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork #booksforchildren #parenting

    41 min

  5. OCT 23

    Leveraging Language to Succeed at Work and Life

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. In this episode, Timm and Amanda continue their series on the SELPH with a discussion about how all human beings are Linguistic beings. Linguistic philosopher John Austin explained how some language does not just describe the world but actually changes the world when it is spoken.  Anyone who is married can probably relate to how this occurs when someone with the proper authority says “You are now man and wife”.  One example of this performative language is assessments.  Human beings all make assessments all the time.  But some of us let the assessments of others, and even our assessments of ourselves, give away our power to create a good life.  Assessments only have that power if we let them.  Another example of performative language are the commitments we make to others and the declarations we make about our futures.  Both commitments and declarations can play a powerful role in how we lead our lives and how we lead others to bring about the futures we care about.  Gen Z has some heavy assessments about their future, and this is what is behind some of their work behaviors that can be difficult to understand.  Both Gen Z and the organizations they work in can use language to increase awareness and then act positively on concerns about the future as well as shaping the future we desire.  #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #speechacts #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork #performativelanguage #powerofassessments

    14 min

  6. OCT 16

    Radical Strategies for Gen Z to Succeed in the Workplace

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz. Our guest is Russel Von Brocklen – The Dyslexia Professor.  Russel is best known for helping neurodiverse students drastically improve their school performance – turning their neurodiversity into their superpower.  He is the creator of the Special First Literacy Blueprint and Word Analysis First tools, funded by the New York state legislature.  In our show, Russel describes the role of AI in his methods and explains how the school hacks he has developed can be used to make a huge positive impression in the workplace.  And this is going to be key as AI expands and entry level employees will only survive by making a strong impression.  Russel shares his story of growing up with dyslexia and a particular incident that caused him to declare he was going to find a way to use his dyslexia to succeed.  It is the methods he developed for other dyslexic students that led to his recommendations for entering the AI enabled workplace. Russel points out that the strength he sees in neurodiverse kids, both Gen Z and younger, is that they have areas of specialty and interest where they are very strong.  And he discusses strategies he has developed to help anyone use their area of specialty to solve high leveraged work problems. Specifically for Gen Z entering the workforce, Russel argues that you are not just competing with your peers, you are competing with powerful, efficient and inexpensive AI tools.  His advice is to learn to utilize these tools to solve problems that will boost your reputation and keep you in demand.  Russel takes us step by step through how he works with people to use these tools both to succeed in school and to succeed in the workplace. Resources that Russel refers to as integral to his methods include: The Craft of Research, Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz,  Strategies for Struggling Writers by James Collins.  #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #neurodiversity #dyslexia #AI #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork

    50 min

  7. OCT 9

    Is Gen Z Too Emotional?

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.   In this episode, Amanda and Timm continue their series on Bob Dunham’s SELPH acronym that reminds us of the key elements of being human.  The E in SELPH reminds us that we are all Emotional beings.   All of us get triggered by emotions. This is part of our nervous system that has evolved to help us shift bodily and mentally to deal with threats and other things that show up in our environment.  Emotions tend to run their course through our body in a relatively short period of time.  However, they can also trigger moods that linger in our bodies.  The key distinction between emotions and moods is that we have a choice in how we react to our moods – we can always be choosing the mood we want to get back to.   We distinguish between opening and closing moods.  Closing moods keep us bogged down in emotional events and the negative stories we have about them.  Opening moods help us move on and center ourselves back into what we really care about.   Moods are contagious.  Being aware of our moods and being able to shift into opening moods is an embodied practice.  One of the many embodied practices we teach at East Valley Leader Lab. #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #emotionsandmoods #openingmoods #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #Leadershipmatters #connectedwork #taichi

    9 min

  8. OCT 2

    Gen Z in a Worker-Directed Organization

    To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrategenz.   Our Season 1 guest, David Baxter, returns with one of his Gen Z staff members at Bean Chain Coffee, Angel Garretson.  In Season 1, David and his wife and partner Shannon, talked about their unique worker-directed organization model, designed to assist any organization that wants to move towards the worker cooperative model.   In this episode, we’ll hear some more about the purpose and charter of Bean Chain, but our focus will be on Angel’s experience entering the workforce first in a more conventional job, and then at Bean Chain where she is a barrista, but also has the opportunity to take on bigger Bean Chain responsibilities like managing Bean Chain social media.   Angel shares how her experiences at Bean Chain compare to earlier experiences at more traditional jobs. She talks about her relationship with her Owner/bosses.  Both David and Angle provide their perspectives on unique worker directed practices like solution seeking vs traditional top down feedback.    Bean Chain seems to create a deep employee loyalty with these practices. #EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #WorkerDirectedOrganizations #WorkerCooperatives #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork #Tai Chi

    54 min
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Gen Z is entering the workforce with new perspectives and expectations. In this podcast, we’re here to listen to their stories and experiences – their successes and frustrations - and help employers understand the mindset and perspectives of the up and coming workforce. Employers can’t dictate what their young employees find meaningful—what they can do, however, is empower them to create their own sense of purpose and authentic connections. Our curriculum is designed to help them do exactly that, EV Leader Lab is committed to paving the way for more curious, engaged and connected, young professionals in the workplace.

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