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Big Ideas:
- Common issues in phone-based children now adults - social isolation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, addiction
- Lack of in-person interactions and conflict, leaves them unable to resolve conflict in reality
- Dopamine addiction online, leads to cycle of waiting for acknowledgement
- Judging people in ways that we wouldn't do in real time
- Cancel culture emphasized online
- Sense of community is superficial online - high quantity, low quality
- Anxiety - keeping up with social expectations and fear of not being accepted
- How do leaders support Gen Z? Who is doing the accommodating?
- History of the 13-year-old law on social media
- No phone policies within schools
- Withdrawals and failure to launch due to social options online
- Sense of creation and confidence
- Using vocational training to support people's confidence and purpose as a professional
- Parents modeling phone-behavior
- How can we create an environment and culture of engagement, even when we are online for meetings?
- The closer and more visible the phone is to you, the more distracting it is
- Handwriting notes and limiting access to distractions while in meetings
- Phones can be dangerous for our work
- Creating learning opportunities for employees around phone and/or social media challenges
- Creating online community
- Leaders modeling better online detoxing and communicating it with the team
- Setting better work time boundaries for when to expect people to be online
- Good psychological safety
- Gamify non-screen time within a team or between teams
- How often we go down a road and only in hindsight realize the issues
- Meeting the younger generation where they are
- Some younger people have been conditioned into this way of being, not chosen it
- Work design - multiple/flex job sharing to create a sense of flexibility in their roles
- Reverse mentoring - look at the strength of the technology
- Employee Resources Groups for Gen Z
- Let go of "When I was your age...."
- Enter into conversations with the intent to listen, not speak
- Be aware of who we are allowing to dictate your life and where there might be a value misalignment
- Where are we jumping on bandwagons without looking at the long-term implications
- Back-chaining behaviors so that people feel confidence
- Being "good enough" without our phones and our social media accounts
- Cultivating an internal sense of value within employees
Resources:
- "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
- "Indistractable" by Nir Eyal
- "Hooked" by Nir Eyal
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