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How To Talk To Your Office Millennials: A Spreadsheet
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Lauren Evans
Published Apr 3, 2015
Modified Apr 3, 2015
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Published Apr 3, 2015
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Football players are millennials too, and just as most bosses don't know how to get through to their young, entitled employees, Giants' head coach Tom Coughlin doesn't know how to get through to his, either.
Coughlin is a notorious hard-ass, an approach that isn't quite doing it for his young players: Millennials are accustomed to being nurtured, and regard themselves as unique snowflakes deserving of individual attention tailored to their specific temperaments—even when those snowflakes are 250 pounds worth of snarling linebacker.
Coughlin must have realized this, because he enlisted a clinical psychologist—Dr. Chris Bogart, executive director of the Southfield Center for Development—to help him better understand his players' baffling, selfie-stick obsessed minds. Bogart told Vice that his presentation to Coughlin and his coaching staff centered on two main points: "How to help players retain information more effectively, and gaps in generational attitudes towards work and learning."
The presentation, embedded below, may also be of use to those trying to understand anyone outside their own generation. Perhaps you, a 24-year-old millennial, will better understand your 38-year-old coworker when you acknowledge that she was influenced by MTV, PCs and crack cocaine. Perhaps you, a 45-year-old manager, can better communicate with your 19-year-old intern when you accept that he has never had a job, and good luck finding one who has.
Do you need a word with 82-year-old Marlene in accounting? Don't text her—call her on her rotary phone. Likewise, if you need your 22-year-old neighbor to stop heaving beer bottles onto the floor at 2 a.m., it's best to send her an email, or Instagram a photo of yourself lying in bed, screaming.
Today, Willie Beamen would have had this whole shit on Periscope.
Learning and Generations, Southfield Center for Development by ViceSports
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