Get Gen Z Into the Game: The Playbook for Winning with Young Talent

• Michael won't participate in team meetings in the office. He would rather sit in his cubicle and be there via Zoom. He's not a team player.
• Emma doesn't speak up about her project work. You know she is smart but how to get her out of her shell?
• Jacob has the talent but delivers his work late and without that wow factor.

Too many young adults are struggling with loneliness and lack of people skills. These problems are hitting their organization's bottom line and maybe your team's success.

What's wrong with an entire generation of employees who struggle with motivation, feeling valued, cultural challenges, and adapting to new environments and expectations? Even more important, what can leaders do to help these Gen Zers find success in the workplace?

Leaders who know how to build relationships with their team members are the right leaders to model relationship building at work and push their team members who are struggling to learn key soft skills such as making small talk, asking for help, and engaging with coworkers.

The wise leader can help move these struggling employees from feeling lonely to feeling secure-to strive and thrive in the workplace.

Business networking researcher Colleen McFarland has adapted the successful techniques of the warm demander to do just that. She explains why these employees can't form genuine relationships and demonstrate people skills. But more than that, she offers leaders techniques to turn the:

• wallflowers into purposeful collaborators,
• silent sufferers into go-getters,
• dull to the dynamic, and
• invisible employees into visible contributing workers.

Gen Z employees need warm demander leaders. They need you. You need this book.