Staffing, enriching diversity in the workplace, millennials working side-by-side with baby boomers on the heals of retirement. These are all common issues in our day-to-day consultation when working on projects with cross-functional work teams. The project lifecycle, the critical thinking, the process leading to the end product or solution is all tied to the diverse perspective and learned / skilled approach engaging our client teams.
This extraordinary video is from a project by professor Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and 200 of his students. It is a fascinating look specifically at what millennials are experiencing today - in how they learn, what they do within the learning process, what is expected and how they operate in the day-to-day.
This video, A Vision of Students Today, gave me goose bumps. There's so much to understand here that for "good or bad," the millennials expectations is a complex experience of participation, evaluation, response, collaboration in real-time "hyper-speed" environments. There's multi-tasking and hyper-tasking, but has technology helped or stripped millennials of time spent taking "deep dives" in creativity, analysis and interpretation. It's a profound look at what faces millennials today. I'll be interested in seeing what comes next when they go back to the "chalkboard."
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