New Standard for Young Talent Development: Updating Their "Mental Map"
IDP has released a video training course that sets a "new standard" for developing young employees, tailored to the values of today's youth for managers facing challenges. Taught by Professor Paco Watanabe of Digital Hollywood University, the course aims to help managers understand the "mental map" of young people and propose concrete approaches to motivate them.
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“I'm doing my best, but I feel a wall” — Supporting the “sense of alienation” in the workplace. Have you recently felt like you’re speaking a “different language” when interacting with young employees? It’s easy to dismiss them with “young people nowadays…”. However, leaders who face them daily, sometimes being considerate, sometimes passionately speaking to them, and yet still have their “hearts shut down” — their exhaustion and the earnest “pain” of their passion going unfulfilled is the issue that needs to be resolved now. This workplace confusion is not due to your skills. It’s simply that the “filters” through which they view the world are decisively different from ours.
IDP, which offers management training such as “3-Minute Leaders Talk,” has released a video training material to redefine the premise of young talent development. The instructor is Mr. Paco Watanabe, who interacts with over 1,000 students annually at Digital Hollywood University. Rather than abstract logic, he distills “hints for approaching” seen from the real lives of young people living in the modern era.
Why does your “passion” not only fail to reach them, but even instill fear?
Today’s young generation is said to live with a “dystopian” (dark world) premise, having no excessive expectations for the future. Stories they are familiar with, such as “Attack on Titan,” depict harsh worldviews where peace is suddenly shattered, and cherished beings are mercilessly lost. For them, with this background, failure is not merely an “experience” but appears as a “fatal risk (the beginning of the end)” that could sway their lives. What we perceive as “lack of ambition” or “waiting for instructions” actually hides their earnest survival strategy.
This training material unravels the lonely struggle of managers who wonder, “Why don’t they understand me?” and organizes concrete approaches that can be tried in the workplace starting tomorrow.
Defining “the future” concretely: In an uncertain world, it clearly presents how current work functions not “for the company” but as “my own weapon (self-investment).”
Updating how to “praise”: For them, who are extremely afraid of others’ eyes, public evaluation, even if it’s praise, can be a fear of standing out and a risk.
From “teaching” to “being helped”: Rather than pushing them to “become a leader,” honestly asking them to “please help me with your strength” is the key to awakening their hidden desire to contribute.
To breathe “new life” into the organization: Young employees are not just difficult to handle. If you can correctly read their “mental map,” there should be no partner more sensitive and reliable than them.
This training material consists of 5 parts in total, easy for busy managers to incorporate in their spare time. Please use it as a prescription for new fiscal year training or when your team feels stagnant.
Just by slightly changing the angle of your words, the gears of a stalled organization should begin to turn smoothly. We hope that as many leaders as possible will experience that moment firsthand.
[Video Training “Young Employees x Management Reform” Overview]
Composition: Total 5 parts (including summary and conclusion)
Main contents:
* How to make generational theory a “tool” for management
* Gen Z’s “dystopian outlook” seen from anime content
* The reality of “isolation” brought about by SNS and school caste
* Supportive leadership that appeals to their “efficiency-focused” motivation
Instructor: Paco Watanabe
President and CEO of Suizokukan Bunko Co., Ltd.
* Professor at Digital Hollywood University DHU
* Lecturer at Globis Management School
* Visiting Professor at Nippon Institute of Technology Professional Graduate School
* Lecturer at Authentic Leaders Academia (formerly Japan Women's Management Graduate School)
* Logical Thinking, Problem Solving
* The Power to Foresee Social Dynamism and the Future
Born in Tokyo in 1960. After graduating from Gakushuin University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy, started career as a copywriter/creative director, engaged in corporate advertising, recruitment advertising, company brochures, etc. Responsible for over 1,000 companies. Afterward, involved in venture business incubation, and has been lecturing and teaching since 1995. Many corporate training achievements. Since 1997, presides over the net community “Chie Ichiba.” In 2001, built a second house in the southern foothills of Yatsugatake and started spending weekends there. Started “Adult Social Studies” seminars in 2009. Started “Enekomi” in 2011.
Currently, lecturer at Globis Management School. Professor at Digital Hollywood University and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School. Auditor at NPO Environmental Relations Research Institute.
Details, application, and inquiries here
Program details materials
Keywords:
IDP, which offers management training such as “3-Minute Leaders Talk,” has released a video training material to redefine the premise of young talent development. The instructor is Mr. Paco Watanabe, who interacts with over 1,000 students annually at Digital Hollywood University. Rather than abstract logic, he distills “hints for approaching” seen from the real lives of young people living in the modern era.
Why does your “passion” not only fail to reach them, but even instill fear?
Today’s young generation is said to live with a “dystopian” (dark world) premise, having no excessive expectations for the future. Stories they are familiar with, such as “Attack on Titan,” depict harsh worldviews where peace is suddenly shattered, and cherished beings are mercilessly lost. For them, with this background, failure is not merely an “experience” but appears as a “fatal risk (the beginning of the end)” that could sway their lives. What we perceive as “lack of ambition” or “waiting for instructions” actually hides their earnest survival strategy.
This training material unravels the lonely struggle of managers who wonder, “Why don’t they understand me?” and organizes concrete approaches that can be tried in the workplace starting tomorrow.
Defining “the future” concretely: In an uncertain world, it clearly presents how current work functions not “for the company” but as “my own weapon (self-investment).”
Updating how to “praise”: For them, who are extremely afraid of others’ eyes, public evaluation, even if it’s praise, can be a fear of standing out and a risk.
From “teaching” to “being helped”: Rather than pushing them to “become a leader,” honestly asking them to “please help me with your strength” is the key to awakening their hidden desire to contribute.
To breathe “new life” into the organization: Young employees are not just difficult to handle. If you can correctly read their “mental map,” there should be no partner more sensitive and reliable than them.
This training material consists of 5 parts in total, easy for busy managers to incorporate in their spare time. Please use it as a prescription for new fiscal year training or when your team feels stagnant.
Just by slightly changing the angle of your words, the gears of a stalled organization should begin to turn smoothly. We hope that as many leaders as possible will experience that moment firsthand.
[Video Training “Young Employees x Management Reform” Overview]
Composition: Total 5 parts (including summary and conclusion)
Main contents:
* How to make generational theory a “tool” for management
* Gen Z’s “dystopian outlook” seen from anime content
* The reality of “isolation” brought about by SNS and school caste
* Supportive leadership that appeals to their “efficiency-focused” motivation
Instructor: Paco Watanabe
President and CEO of Suizokukan Bunko Co., Ltd.
* Professor at Digital Hollywood University DHU
* Lecturer at Globis Management School
* Visiting Professor at Nippon Institute of Technology Professional Graduate School
* Lecturer at Authentic Leaders Academia (formerly Japan Women's Management Graduate School)
* Logical Thinking, Problem Solving
* The Power to Foresee Social Dynamism and the Future
Born in Tokyo in 1960. After graduating from Gakushuin University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy, started career as a copywriter/creative director, engaged in corporate advertising, recruitment advertising, company brochures, etc. Responsible for over 1,000 companies. Afterward, involved in venture business incubation, and has been lecturing and teaching since 1995. Many corporate training achievements. Since 1997, presides over the net community “Chie Ichiba.” In 2001, built a second house in the southern foothills of Yatsugatake and started spending weekends there. Started “Adult Social Studies” seminars in 2009. Started “Enekomi” in 2011.
Currently, lecturer at Globis Management School. Professor at Digital Hollywood University and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School. Auditor at NPO Environmental Relations Research Institute.
Details, application, and inquiries here
Program details materials
Keywords: