Generation Z...Confidence Unleashed

For the past few decades we have continued to develop more confident and self aware traits.  From the materially focused yuppies of the 80s through the increasingly tech savvy millennial and generation Y.

Through each generation,  developing greater cultural and social awareness through the advent of the Internet.

Talk to any business and they will tell you their new recruits had a new level of confidence. 

Some nay say opinionated as these new kids became openly critical and expressing how crop things were and could be improved.

Business etiquette out the window as their experienced new bosses worked out how to deal with these new and mysterious behaviours.

It didn't take long for business to realise that these new generations brought excitement,  innovation and confidence to doing business. 

They also knew technology and how to use it to full effect and eased the integration of social media as corporate customer engagement platforms!

These early incomers of these technology generations are themselves in that more experienced category.

As they themselves changed the business world and inspired innovation they are more welcoming and appreciative of the new bright young things.

We are now at Generation Z. A super informed, confident generation who know exactly what they want.

The corporate world is not so much something to be part of. More like something which gives them the platform to promote their worth, value and put their demands on things.

And they know how to maximise technology and their networks  to gain the rewards they seek.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. They bring an excitement to business, a dynamic which invigorates and for some businesses create a resurgence in fortune.

But in being so dynamic and fast changing can they deal with organisations which aren't quite there yet?

Chances are they will be frustrated and look to go elsewhere. Business leaders need to understand that and whilst they feel they should not change for a few newcomers,  they must realise that to be sustainable they have to. 

Simply because it's not for a few newcomers but an entirely new generation. And don't think those generations coming up behind them will be any less dynamic.

They will push even more. The corporate world will be fully dynamic. Desks will disappear as will long meetings and bureaucracy. 

It will be replaced by just in time approaches. Swift decision making and implementation. Fickle approach to fickle customers perhaps.

Strategies will look years ahead but probably have numerous changes in the meantime. In effect new strategies will be created without it perhaps being realised.

It sounds exhausting but it also sounds exciting. I look forward to seeing the change and although maybe a generation too far on, it doesn't mean I can't enjoy watching the birth of an exciting new world!!