Even though I have gone through hundreds of hours of therapies and hundreds of hours of self-development activities, I still cannot be so sure to finish the sentence: “I amโฆ”
I believe none of us truly knows who we are. So we donโt have any right to use the sentence “You areโฆ” to label others, as we don’t even know who we are.
Of course, we all do that, but I invite you to notice our patterns and change them, to be more precise โ bring our projections back home.
๐โ๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ. As a leadership trainer, I often get asked to talk about generations at work and how to deal with them. But I donโt believe in the topic of generations. I think it is too shallow to label people like this. We take over the model to describe generations from the U.S.: Gen X, Y, Z, or Baby Boomers is U.S.-based logic. But did they have the same history as we have had here in the Baltics? Did they have the same technological background (which is said to be the biggest influencer for a ‘generation’ to form)? We want to label people based on their birth year to make life easier; our brain wants to use less energy. But in real life, by labeling people by generations, we make life more complicated.
Of course, the more we get to know different concepts of categorizing people, the more we can combine different approaches to have better relationships and fewer expectations. But like any other method, it’s limited. Is it generations, strength finder, soul-wounds theory, human design, personality types, Belbin, DISC, psychological types, zodiac signs, genre, status of the job โ they are just theoretical, but itโs never true about one person. In real life it is a combination of everything.
To get to know the combination, you need to be open and talk with other human beings and understand that we all change every day. That’s the point of communication โ to improve, not to stay the same as yesterday. So the theory labeled us yesterday is not true anymore this week. For example losing my beloved dog week ago, I watch many thing differently today, than I did 9 days ago. Or after going to deep therapy session, I didn’t change my past, but I changed the outcome and my future. We’re here to develop not to stay under the label.
We donโt need to learn how to categorize people by generations, personality types, or whatever; what we truly need is to truly learn to listen.
At the workplace, categorizing based on generations or any other method can be dangerous. We risk deindividualizing our colleagues, reducing them to mere labels. Let’s break free from this limiting mindset, fostering true connections that bring out the best in each other.
Let’s rather listen, learn, and grow together!
๐๐ ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ-๐ต๐ฐ-๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ.
