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s1e5 short5 GenXfeedback session good morning leader

7 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this short feedback session, Christophe Bodin and Speaker A discuss how active listening can help bridge generational gaps, especially between Gen X and Gen Z. Bodin reflects on his tendency to interrupt and emphasizes the need to truly understand what the other person is trying to convey, rather than making assumptions. The conversation also touches on avoiding generational bias, referencing a prior point made by a person named Marc. Speaker A adds feedback about the rapid pace of emerging technologies, noting that the challenge is not just familiarity with platforms like Twitter/X, but keeping up with the constant influx of new tools that affect communication across generations.

Active listening.
I'm trying to stay away from the conversation being a Gen X myself, but I can see that we're— and I used to do all that all the time to cut off, not to have that active listening saying, okay, what is it that you're trying to do? What's behind?
Not behind, but what's really there versus making stuff up, right?
Saying, oh yeah, you want me— and then getting in our structure, the thing that you were saying earlier, Marc, right?
Yes. Great feedback.
All right, what do I have next? Mark to— well, stop saying words, not names. Gen X to Gen Z.
I think the one piece of feedback I would have is around technology, which is just the rapid use of all the different technologies. And what I have found is not, hey, have you used Twitter? Have you used X? But it's just a rapid pace at which new ones come out that may not even be like that