“Young Leader, Old Staff“ in a company

As a young leader, always remember that your older colleagues have also experienced a youthful frenzy. When working with you, they often exhibit an attitude like “I've done it, I've been there so I know”. In addition, young leaders often have to receive scrutiny and envy from older employees. Veteran employees at this time often feel like they have been deceived, thinking that they are the right person for the position. And this is the time for a young leader to prove his worth.

What should young leaders do when managing older employees?

At this point, throw your "superior" power into a corner. You need to remove decentralization and work as a team member, just like everyone else, you also try to do everything to achieve your goals at work. You should build strong relationships with your employees and show them that you are someone they can trust, a protector, and accountable for the team's results.

Older employees want you to respect their opinions. They always put you in a position to understand that your success is due to their contributions, so they always insist that you use the influence of your management position to make their value better. At this time, you need to stay awake and make things go right, because the first time is the time when you are being tested by the old people and subjected to comparisons with your previous counterparts.

Show them your goals, point out where the “team's ship” is and where it will go in the near future. You need to know that you're leading senior employees, so it's not likely that they'll easily follow your instructions simply because you're their boss. In fact, they will deliberately make the job more difficult until you earn their respect, which means they only believe you when they see you as a leader and are doing for the benefit of the whole team.

Advice for young leaders

1. Always be an active listener and show an attitude of being willing to learn from every member of the team
2. Get to know each individual on the team and make connections with them on issues outside of work. Maybe in work, you are the leader of them, but in life, they will be the teachers who teach you useful lessons on the road of life.
3. Know how to reconcile. You and them are two people from two different generations, so the approach and inference to the problem will be different. And reconciling the positions of the parties is always the best way to avoid controversy.

Remember, whoever it is in this world, they all have feelings.