The New Generation of Leaders: Reshaping Organizations
The New Generation of Leaders: Reshaping Organizations

Millennials, Generation X & Z’s — the natives in tech and the character-driven leaders. Baby boomers are currently still making up the workforce but with the rapid growth of technology, everything is changing by the minute. These rising trailblazers are inevitable and are everywhere as they forge new paths, cross boundaries and create change. The New Gen leaders are unstoppable and quite stubborn as they choose to do things their own way most of the time. Young leaders are ambitious and are willing to work hard, but they make sure they are not compromising work-life balance or their authenticity. Organizations should be able to adapt to these youngsters’ expectations and ways if they want business sustainability.

I, being a millennial, always believe that it is possible to have a successful career as a leader without sacrificing efficacious personal and family life. What I see is that young leaders nowadays prefer to avoid politics and game-playing, which I think was practiced in the past. New Gen leaders are strong believers of retaining the authenticity of their personality — which at times makes them wonder whether their organization would allow them to show such authenticity.

Therefore, organizations should be able to create a rigorous professional development program which focuses on the fundamentals of leadership like budgeting, dealing with difficult people — especially someone who is senior to them in age and tenure, and how to lead a difficult discussion with diverse members. Organizations should also be able to take deliberate steps to recast lingering obsolescent ideas about leadership and should be able to support young leaders by adapting to different technologies as a main medium in exercising leadership and doing things.

Most importantly, organizations should be able to communicate to potential leaders that they will have the opportunity to define their own way of leadership that meets their expectations of authenticity and work-life balance.

Today’s leaders have different expectations and organizations should be willing to take the risk in changing their traditional ways, learning to embrace technology and the wholeness of the new generations’ ways to attract the best leaders of the future.
['John Clements Consultants']
['Leadership', 'Generation Z', 'Organizations', 'Training', 'Millennials']