CDW’s Exec-Connect: Past Tech, Forward Thinking: 4 Tips to Build multi-generational Team Communication Channels
Almost thirty years ago I started college with a Digital Equipment 386dx and got hooked on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). At each stage of my education and career I graduated to new forms of communication that were ushered in by evolving technologies. Some for the better and some not. Now, on any given day, I communicate with multiple departments and teams using up to 10 different collaboration solutions that range from video conferencing to chat to email.
What is Gen Z talking about?
But sometimes I still need an interpreter to talk to my Gen Z kids. ?? Just kidding! Every generation has slang and Gen Z is no different.
The other day, my 20-year-old son was talking, and I don’t even know what language he was speaking. It was something around the notion that someone’s home address had been made public. “It’s doxing. They’ve been doxed,” my 18-year-old daughter interpreted.
Me: (Crickets) I still don’t get it.
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Keeping track of Gen Z digital slang, can be difficult even for someone like me who works at a tech company and who daily collaborates on at least six different messaging platforms from Slack to WhatsApp and three to four different video conferencing solutions.
The communication snags I run into with my adult children, started me thinking about the rapid evolution Digital Workspace Solutions have made over the last 30 years.
Visit the link below to continue reading the rest of my walk down technology lane, and learn about the four rules I use in and out of the workplace to assure that generational differences and the rapid pace of innovation doesn’t jeopardize team dynamics.
While you’re there register to hear me speak at CDW’s Executive SummIT Series “Managing the Evolving Workforce” on August 12th.
Support Expert at Bright Data
1 年My first computer wasn't until college in 2007, but I became very fond of older technologies (they're often more well-considered than their 'modern' equivalents). IRC for me is the best solution to distributed team comms. Less clutter than Teams, Slack, Skype, etc. - rather, like all good old software, the focus is on the content, not the window-dressing around it. I still think this today, and if I lacked a soul maybe I'd try offering it as a managed solution, but free things should be free. Surprised more businesses can't find a way to make 'free' work.
Many great memories of IRC and BBSs before that. Linking up BBSs with FidoNet was a huge advancement and really connected a lot of people and extended the reach before email and Internet was widely available - particularly in rural communities. Also significantly less trolling back in those days :)
Channel Account Manager - Sales, Channel Partnerships
2 年Compaq pentium 2 - 266 mhz!
Digital Marketing Specialist
2 年I recall my first computer experience was playing Oregon Trail at my Lutheran Grammar school in computer class in the 80s. After that, I remember hopping on the IRC in 1995 in the University of Minnesota dorm computer lab. Both were hugely addictive. Now we have Tik Tok. As much as things have changed, they've also stayed the same ??...