# gen z
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17:00Gen-Z perfectionism: rising socially prescribed perfectionism and fear of failureLeanne Elliott: I too saw a study this week, Al. from the British Psychological Society's Research Digest. It was actually published in Psychological Bulletin. Al Elliott: Oh yeah. Leanne Elliott: If you're interested. AEP 320 · 21 Jul 2026·news roundup· 17:00–22:2824:10The coming skills gap and the Gen Z shiftKristien Turner: Mm-hmm Leanne Elliott: And the fight for talent and meeting that. Are we looking at a massive skills gap if Organizations aren't investing in managers. Our younger people joining the workforce have no reEP 311 · 18 Jun 2026·interview· 24:10–27:1024:58Truth or Lie: Does Gen Z value purpose more than pay?Leanne Elliott: Jake is leading Truth or Lie, and we're asking, does Gen Z value purpose more than pay? The media seems to think so, but what does the research say? Dr. Jake, over to you Jake Tuber: I just wanted to hearEP 306 · 2 Jun 2026·truth or lie· 24:58–39:5510:59FOBO: Why Gen Z is resisting AILeanne Elliott: I've got a new word. Al Elliott: Yes. Okay. Now we do make notes on this just, just so that we, and we do share the notes. And what I noticed was that Leanne completely redacted proper, like, like, um, GoEP 300 · 12 May 2026·news roundup· 10:59–19:5713:37Story 2: The Gen-Z career ladder is being rebuiltAl Elliott: Well, I've been reading The Guardian this week and feeling very fancy Leanne Elliott: Oh, I'm sure a lot of people who know you'd be very surprised to hear that you read The Guardian Al Elliott: Yeah, yeah. TEP 298 · 5 May 2026·news roundup· 13:37–20:0813:55Story 2: Gen Z leading the return to the officeAl Elliott: Well, kind of similar and a little bit tangential. Not tangential Leanne Elliott: Tangential meme Al Elliott: Tangent. Is it tangent? I think you're gonna have to listen. You're gonna have to write in. I lookEP 278 · 24 Feb 2026·news roundup· 13:55–19:593:55Gen Z 'Growth Hunting' and What It Means for EmployersLeanne Elliott: I've got a new word Al Elliott: Okay, you alluded to this in the intro. What is your new word? Leanne Elliott: It's a, it's, can I say a new word if it's 2 words?EP 268 · 20 Jan 2026·news roundup· 3:55–11:042:25Six ways Gen Z are 'ruining' the workplaceLeanne Elliott: Sure is, Al. Cue the jingle. Okay, Lee, what 6 ways Gen Z are ruining the workplace Al Elliott: Oh God, not another. It's always the Gen Zs. Why don't we do 6 ways that Generation X are ruining the workplEP 242 · 21 Oct 2025·news roundup· 2:25–11:052:30Office frogging: Gen Z's job-hopping trendLeanne Elliott: I have a new word Al Elliott: Well, we know what it is because you said it in the, in the top Leanne Elliott: I do. Office froggingEP 236 · 30 Sept 2025·news roundup· 2:30–7:4220:32Is Gen Z's mental health crisis a red herring?Sarah Hughes: Yeah, I think it's a red herring. I think it takes us away from actually focusing on what the issues are, which is social injustice. You know, that's actually what we're talking about. You know, not whetherEP 195 · 8 May 2025·interview· 20:32–22:4518:23Hot Take with Sophie Wade: why Gen Z isn't the problemLeanne Elliott: Welcome back. If you are a regular listener, you'll know that every week we ask a workplace expert to share their hot take on the world of work, something we should all be thinking about a little bit diffEP 192 · 29 Apr 2025·hot take· 18:23–28:3041:00Workplace Surgery — Gen Z text speak vs Gen X bossAl Elliott: Okay, question number 2, Leanne, and I'm going to apologise to everyone. in advance because I'm going to use some Gen Z language here and it's going to be so cringey, we'll have to take it offline. Okay, so tEP 188 · 15 Apr 2025·workplace surgery· 41:00–46:4618:20Bridging the generational divideLeanne Elliott: And do you think it's the same with, you say that there's with Gen Z, that Gen Z, there might be that element of this is all new, the world of work, not sure what is normal, what should be expected. Is thEP 179 · 13 Mar 2025·interview· 18:20–20:212:20Story 1: Jamie Dimon's leaked Gen-Z rantLeanne Elliott: JP Morgan CEO lost his shiz. Have you seen this? No, I haven't Al Elliott: Oh, actually, no, I did. Was it like a— was it a sneak Zoom secret recording that was leaked or something? Leanne Elliott: Yeah, EP 172 · 18 Feb 2025·news roundup· 2:20–8:5241:46Prediction 6 — Sonia Thompson: Gen Z's workforce takeoverLeanne Elliott: Sonia Thompson is an inclusive I think 2025 is going to be another reckoning in that organizations are going to have to deal with people's differences in who is in the workforce, right? And right now in tEP 157 · 26 Dec 2024·other· 41:46–46:021:54Story 1: The Gen-Z skill gapLeanne Elliott: I saw, um, a bit— an article about Gen Z. I feel like we don't talk about enough on the show. Should maybe inject a bit of youth. Um, yeah, no, I saw— I mean, they're everywhere, aren't they? You gotta, gEP 146 · 19 Nov 2024·news roundup· 1:54–8:458:19Story 2: Gen Z and Millennials are ready to move onAl Elliott: Well, a little article on HR News caught my eye. Uh, we talk quite a lot about the generational difference But a recent research project from Oak Engaged uncovered some pretty surprising findings. Almost 60% EP 142 · 5 Nov 2024·news roundup· 8:19–11:172:45Meet Annabelle (Gen-Z, MAP) and Jeremy (Gen-X, Change Work Life)Leanne Elliott: I'm Annabelle Murphy from MAP. Um, I'm a client accountant. I've been at MAP for almost 3 years in November. Um, I love my job, not in a cliché kind of way, but I love my job. I'm really passionate about EP 141 · 31 Oct 2024·other· 2:45–3:4010:25What brings meaning and purpose to work?Leanne Elliott: Talking of generations, what does our Gen Z guest Annabel think brings meaning and purpose to work? It feels like it should be very different to a Gen X, but perhaps not. I think you've got to be a bit paEP 141 · 31 Oct 2024·other· 10:25–16:1419:41Hot Take: Will Giangrande on Gen-Z potentialLeanne Elliott: But come back Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as this Leanne Elliott: So come backEP 140 · 29 Oct 2024·hot take· 19:41–32:362:36Story 1: Salary transparency and Gen Z talentLeanne Elliott: I came across some interesting news about salary transparency I thought was worth talking about, um, and especially worth thinking about for small business owners looking to hire Gen Z talent, which is a EP 134 · 8 Oct 2024·news roundup· 2:36–7:126:30The Gen Z WhisperersAl Elliott: Well, Le, you've heard of Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. You've heard of horse whisperers. We've now got Gen Z whisperers. I saw it in the Guardian newspaper. I say I saw it in the Guardian newspaper, I didEP 128 · 17 Sept 2024·news roundup· 6:30–13:1046:37How to lead Gen Z — the key lessons and final thoughtsLeanne Elliott: So there it is, how to lead Gen Z from senior leaders, business owners, founders, management teams that are actually doing it and doing it incredibly well. That is the story of MAP. And, and, you know, frEP 127 · 12 Sept 2024·other· 46:37–56:2120:23Managing millennials and Gen Z expectationsLeanne Elliott: Yeah, it sounds really great. And are you getting good feedback from employees about the Sweet Factory? Ed Williams: Yeah, I mean, it's been incredible. We actually went through a round of feedback with tEP 125 · 5 Sept 2024·interview· 20:23–23:497:57Gen-Z slang guide: no cap, slaps, stan, delulu and moreAl Elliott: Well, I found a new guide to Gen-Z talk. It's an article I saw in Forbes yesterday, and it's a guide for old farts like me, um, on words that Gen-Z use. Now, before I begin, don't take this as me telling you EP 120 · 6 Aug 2024·news roundup· 7:57–12:5245:38Will the next generation rebel against remote work?Al Elliott: So that is the incredible Lee Rubin with Confetti. That's the website as well, with Confetti. Oh, well, that was a nice link. So go to withconfetti.com. But there's other ways you can find LeeEP 119 · 30 Jul 2024·interview· 45:38–45:4935:09How Gen Z Approach Work DifferentlyLeanne Elliott: You mentioned Gen Z, that they're coming into the workforce now with a different perspective. How are Gen Z approaching their careers differently? Louise Kershaw: I think They're entering it now. They're EP 117 · 23 Jul 2024·interview· 35:09–37:5637:56Millennials vs Gen Z on FeedbackLeanne Elliott: And how does that differ from millennials? Are millennials better at taking on constructive feedback? Louise Kershaw: I think to begin with, no, because it can challenge our, again, that sense of your selEP 117 · 23 Jul 2024·interview· 37:56–41:258:31News Roundup: Gen Z career trendsAl Elliott: Interesting. Well, What you've said there kind of dovetails perfectly into what I was, what I saw, which is very, very similar. So I saw this stat that said, um, it's from LinkedIn. It said the 2nd most commoEP 105 · 11 Jun 2024·news roundup· 8:31–12:0419:26Tip 4: Be More Gen Z with Isabel BerwickAl Elliott: If you are interested in that, then check out that episode because there's a great guy on there called Ferry who's just crazier than a box of frogs, but he's actually implemented it and he is he's killing it EP 100 · 23 May 2024·other· 19:26–23:5810:03Clip: Leanne on the We Are Human Leaders PodcastAl Elliott: Yep, it's those pesky Gen Zers again thinking they're first to come up with things. I mean, of course they're just— because every generation thinks they've invented something new, and the older generation smiEP 92 · 23 Apr 2024·news roundup· 10:03–10:4010:40News: 'New' Gen Z work trends that aren't newLeanne Elliott: Like what? Al Elliott: Well, there's a term called loud laborers, which was first popularized by a guy called André Spicer. We have some names on this podcast. He's an organizational behavior professor anEP 92 · 23 Apr 2024·news roundup· 10:40–13:077:45News: Finland's happiness secrets and the happiest Gen Z countriesLeanne Elliott: What have you got, Al? Al Elliott: Okay, so Finland is the world's happiest country according to a World Happiness Report. A Finnish psychologist thinks this is down to the 4 phrases that people of FinlanEP 84 · 26 Mar 2024·news roundup· 7:45–11:5016:25Generational views — debunking the 'Gen Z only' mythSarah Hughes: No, and it's funny actually because I've got, I've, I've got my own Gen Zer, I've got my own kid, and, um, we, you know, we have these discussions all the time and, uh, it's really, really interesting. And EP 79 · 23 Feb 2024·interview· 16:25–18:0216:53Prediction 5: Gen Z Are ComingLeanne Elliott: Talking of Gen Z Al Elliott: Yep. Our next prediction is around Gen Z. But let's just summarise where we're at so far. So, so far our predictions are: number 1, flexible work will still divide the businesEP 72 · 4 Jan 2024·interview· 16:53–23:2618:54Why leaders must invest in their own mental health — Gen Z challengeDr Audrey Tang: Well, business leaders need to invest in their own mental health because actually they're role modeling their behavior to everybody else. If you as a business leader are going around saying, oh, well, we EP 70 · 21 Dec 2023·panel interview· 18:54–23:555:50Generational differences in the workplaceLeanne Elliott: Regular listeners will know that we are fascinated by how the generational differences are playing out in the workplace. Michael is a Gen Xer whose team spans multiple generations, so I wanted to find outEP 64 · 16 Nov 2023·other· 5:50–11:5113:58Growing up in the age of everything being measuredAl Elliott: So then the second part about Gen Z that's super interesting Is because they have grown up in a time where everything, all knowledge, everything they want is instantly accessible, right? Like, so there's not EP 64 · 16 Nov 2023·other· 13:58–15:138:18The Boomers vs Gen Z HeadlineLeanne Elliott: Um, so I came across a very clickbaity angry headline this week, so I'm going to tell you the headline: Boomers are more hardworking than Gen Z according to a survey in Australia. Al Elliott: Amen. Yeah, EP 44 · 21 Jun 2023·other· 8:18–10:1235:18Values that resonate with Gen Z and millennialsLeanne Elliott: I call myself your facilitator of lightbulb We talked about this quite a lot on the employer brand episode, that it really is about differentiating yourself from your competition. And I think now, as an eEP 39 · 17 May 2023·other· 35:18–36:3149:02Hot takes on Gen Z vs. millennialsAl Elliott: That's the word. Leanne Elliott: Hot take. Al Elliott: Is it hot take? I think it's supposed to— when you, when you say something which is supposed to be like quite controversial, I think.EP 38 · 10 May 2023·hot take· 49:02–53:0558:15The Gen-Z soft skills gap — whose job is it to fix it?Leanne Elliott: There's a soft skills gap with Gen Z, and you said, you know, to an extent you can, you can see that. I mean, in terms of You know, assuming that there is a gap, how do we help our Gen Z workforce addressEP 35 · 19 Apr 2023·other· 58:15–60:2260:22Why are we seeing a spike in Gen-Z burnout?Leanne Elliott: Do you think that might be part of the reason we've seen a spike in burnout amongst the Gen Z age group? This, you know, difficulty in saying no and just taking on more? Al Elliott: Yeah, it's a really, rEP 35 · 19 Apr 2023·other· 60:22–63:0631:30The 'snowflake' argument, demolished — part 1Al Elliott: Now, this is, this is the big question I had. Again, coming from Gen X, so I'm a little bit older. I'm also male. And so therefore, I'm used to with my friends banter, which usually is awful stuff over WhatsAEP 34 · 12 Apr 2023·other· 31:30–38:1349:45Generational differences in workplace relationshipsLeanne Elliott: There is a lot of interesting research into generational differences relating to relationships in the workplace, particularly what is and what is not acceptable. Gen Z, for example, they're the first geneEP 32 · 29 Mar 2023·other· 49:45–53:1125:28The image problem mentoring has with Gen ZAl Elliott: Definitely. So we asked Julie, um, about the whole idea of the image of mentoring, because millennials, Gen Z, are they more or less inclined to look for mentors? Julie Meyer: I think that they feel that the EP 29 · 8 Mar 2023·panel interview· 25:28–28:480:33Why millennials and Gen Z don't follow linear career pathsAl Elliott: Nice. Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Sophie Wade: That's one of the big things that's really different for millennials and Gen Zs is they don't have these linear cEP 25 · 8 Feb 2023·interview· 0:33–3:2021:51How the Great Recession shaped Gen Z and millennialsSophie Wade: The Great Recession in 2008 impacted millennials and Gen Zs a lot. And I didn't even realize till recently how much Gen Z, they were much younger, were watching, and they were all watching what happened to tEP 25 · 8 Feb 2023·interview· 21:51–25:5924:11Burnout and the 'snowflake' generationAl Elliott: I think we have to remember that if someone's entered the workforce 5 years ago. So let's say, for argument's sake, they are 21 and they started at 16, and the pandemic was like 2, 2 of those years, even 2 anEP 20 · 10 Jan 2023·other· 24:11–25:5631:14Al's maths on Gen Z, millennials, and the future of workAl Elliott: So I did a little bit of maths. So I looked at a few websites for definitions of Gen Z, Gen X, boomers, all that kind of thing. And I've discovered there's a key date here. Now that's January 1st, 2024. And tEP 20 · 10 Jan 2023·other· 31:14–32:5724:57Gen Z and millennials — what they actually wantLeanne Elliott: So, Millennial is 1980 to 1994 and Gen Z will be probably about '95 to 2010. So, the Gen Zs are starting to come into the workforce now as Millennials have been around for a little while. Ultimately, you EP 03 · 15 Jul 2022·other· 24:57–25:51
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