Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

How to Develop Gen X and Millennial Leaders

17 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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Gen X and Millennial workers develop better when mentored than when boxed in by generational stereotypes. Alice Miller's Drama of the Gifted Child shows how labels people internalize become their identity. Leaders should focus on moving individuals toward their potential instead of projecting limiting perceptions.

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Young professionals develop when you help them develop, and they only become that generational perception if you place that perception on them. There's a book by Alice Miller called Drama of the Gifted Child. Basically states that when you tell a child or assume that a child was a certain way, they become it. They mirror what your expectations are of that child. Similarly, we have all done that with this new generation. We put our perceptions on them, define them, rather than just helping them to get from here to there.