Aliento: Welcoming Gen Z the Right Way

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Our guest, Jorge Sanchez is Senior Programs Manager at Aliento, where he oversees daily operations, staff professional development, and ensures compliance with grants and programmatic requirements.  He is also the direct supervisor of Guadalupe Reynoso Jiminez who was our guest in Episode 2.

Jorge explains how, like Guadalupe, most of his team of Project Coordinators are Gen Z and they come in through Aliento's client base of "Dreamer" kids and their families. It is sort of a built in workforce development pipeline that gets their Gen Z employees off to a great start.

Jorge cautions other organizations and mangers that keeping the same standards as they always have for promotional opportunities (e.g. need 10 yrs of experience to move up) is missing an opportunity because this generation picks things up and adapts so fast.  

He also highlights the importance of focusing on soft skills development with young new workers. They set professional standards for communicating and showing up on time as part of their basic employee development which, as we could see in our interview with Guadalupe pays dividends in how they show up to customers and everywhere else.

And, as successful as Aliento is at developing new young workers, he does share some of the challenges they've found managing this generation and how they use "full reflective practices" and other techniques to help their younng workers thrive.

To learn more about Aliento, view or listen to Season 1, Episode 2 of Mind & Body@Work for an interview with their Executive Director.

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