Recently, a friend and fellow sport professional, recommended the book entitled Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein to me. Although the initial approach to this volume was an effort to offer guidance for emerging adults as they prepare for a professional career in sport, the lessons offered within are valuable to everyone in any setting and …
Category: Generational Theory
Whistles and Watches
If I were to pose the question to this audience about what images your mind conjures up when you think of starting a new school year, it is doubtful that the answer would be a stopwatch or a coach’s whistle; however, as a physical educator, these can be essential tools for managing the classroom environment. …
You Can Do Hard Things
by Gabby Morocco, 2019 Student Government Association President, Convocation Speech Gabby could never have known the research that is filling the binders in my office and the book notes folder on my computer when she wrote her speech. However, God used her to speak words that are so relevant for emerging adults and the challenges …
Digital Natives
In efforts to bridge the gap between my generation and the emerging adults that are currently within my sphere of influence, I’ve immersed myself in great tomes of generational theory. The sport marketing course even contains a module on generational marketing since a sport organization’s fan base may extend over a broad range of age …
Do You Speak Gen Z?
Traveling with Gen Z on two trips to Calgary this summer opened my eyes to an entirely new vocabulary. Spending quality time with emerging adults outside of the classroom and academic setting, one receives exposure to colloquial terms that you never knew existed. Feeling out of the loop and not following the conversation, my curiosity …
Why Do I Have to Change?
“Entitled” is a descriptor associated in a negative manner with the Millennial Generation and in a recent faculty workshop, the term was offered to illustrate Gen Z as well, but Ryan Jenkins offers another perspective on this concept when posed with the question from leaders, “Why do I have to change?” Jenkins replies, “…it signals …
Five Floors of Relationships
Building relational capital is how Tommy Spaulding explains creating relational equity in his book entitled It’s Not Just Who You Know. With a wealth of information that I am sure to reference repeatedly in my own research, Spaulding exposes the reader to “relationship economics…how to define relationships that matter, how we can create relationships that …
Follow Where You’ve Been
Not confident enough of when this event specifically occurred to provide an exact age, I want to discuss my first experience mowing the lawn since it was memorable enough to share a lesson from that day. No, I didn’t cut down all of my mom’s irises (that was a neighbor, not me); and no, I …
Bubble or a Greenhouse
Coming across a shared social media post by Marisa Boonstra, I was struck by the similarities between her perceptions on parenting and my thoughts on instructing emerging adults. It probably drew my eye even more because she used some of the key terms, such as cultivate and flourish, that have resonated again and again in …
The One Question You Never Want to Hear from Students — Growing Leaders
Parents tell me that their kids are asking them far fewer questions than they used to ask their parents when they were growing up. There’s nothing scientific about this observation, but I tend to believe them. Why? Because kids today have a portable device. They can Google. They can YouTube. I loved the questions my…The One …
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