Supporting young people in the workplace (10 October 2025)

This 45-minute taster session introduces key ideas and practical strategies for engaging, motivating, and managing young people—particularly Generation Z—in the workplace.

As Gen Z joins the workforce with new expectations and needs, traditional leadership styles don’t always land well. Managers are finding that what worked in the past may now feel out of touch. Today’s young employees want more than a pay check.

In this session, we’ll explore how to build stronger relationships with younger employees, shift from being a “boss” to a mentor, and embrace a more developmental and inclusive management approach.

What’s in it for you?

The aim of this taster session is to help participants:

• Understand what young people (especially Gen Z) value at work
• Recognise what motivates and demotivates them
• Explore how to adapt their management style to be more supportive and developmental
• Build confidence in managing generational differences and neurodiversity

Agenda

(10.00 – 10.45)

1 WHAT DO YOUNG PEOPLE WANT FROM WORK?

• Explore what Gen Z values and expects from their manager and organisation.

2 MOTIVATING AND ENGAGING YOUNGER EMPLOYEES

• Understand what drives (and discourages) younger team members.

3 ADAPTING YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE

• Discover how to move from “boss” to mentor and build stronger working relationships.

4 NEURODIVERSITY AT WORK

• A brief look at how to better support neurodiverse young employees.

5 ACTION PLANNING

• Reflection on changes you could make to better support young people at work.

Free registration

This webinar, one of a series, is completely free of charge – just make sure you book well in advance to get the ‘joining instructions’ and to be sure of a place. Click 'Add to calendar' above before you click the green ‘Register’ button, above. The session will be held on Zoom, so remember to look out for the secure password we will email you an hour before the session begins.

Please don’t forget to attend – the session will not be recorded.

Feedback

This webinar is delivered by Jamie Chambers, our lead expert on generational training and one of our most popular trainers! See some of the feedback he’s had recently from our clients:

‘Jamie is a fantastic facilitator. Jamie helped deliver a large-scale leadership engagement and development programme during a year of transformational change for the organisation. The results and impact were off the scale.’

‘Jamie is one of the best trainers I have worked with. His workshops are engaging and fun and employee feedback has been excellent. I look forward to working with Jamie again in the future.’

'Jamie was engaging and encouraged frankness and participation from the group.'

'Knowledgeable and presented course well. I enjoyed that the course was adaptive and discussion open and questions welcome.'

· 'Great presentation style, very enthusiastic and positive. I felt he delivered at a good pace and was reading the room well.'

'Very engaging, thank you.'

'I thought the trainer was superb, very engaging, first course in a while I haven't zoned out of. Thank you!'

'Really well delivered and managed to engage attendees proactively which is important on a virtual session.'

'Thank you and your enthusiasm for the subject was great, good energy.'

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'Brilliant job.'