There’s a reason our podcast team’s intergenerational. Without multiple perspectives, you can’t make sense of the subtle patterns in today’s dynamic workplace.
But sometimes the subtlest patterns are your own.
Welcome to the Mode/Switch Pod, which comes out every other Tuesday to make sense of American work culture and help you do more than cope when work’s a lot.
Susan Collins joins our roundtable as an ICF-certified coach—The Network Concierge—to discuss the hidden patterns in our own vocational formation. Especially for Gen X managers, the things you take for granted need to shift in today’s workplace.
This week, Ken our Boomer, David an Xer, Emily our Xennial, and LaShone our Millennial discuss how to spot hidden, sometimes detrimental patterns in your own practice of leadership. But we’re not just playing gotcha! If you can find the hidden patterns in how you work, you can find the courage to do more than cope in a changeful workplace.
I write all this is as a Gen X professional myself (and a manager of a small team, no less). This conversation helped me see how I do things at work with buried assumptions about the way things oughta be. Once upon a time, maybe, those assumptions made sense. Today, those assumptions make less sense—and they’re getting in the way.
A long time ago, a rabbi warned about putting new booze in old bottles. We’re trying to keep up with that wisdom right alongside you. So pour something good and pull up to our roundtable.
-craig
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