Henna Pryor

I'm squarely, I think what they refer to as elder millennial at this point.

With generations, I think it's very easy.

I've got teenagers, 15 and 13, but they're not yet in the workforce, but they're not that far from it.

It's easy to say that they don't like to talk on the phone.

They like to hide behind their screens.

And I always try to help leaders understand, first and foremost,

they can't help when they were born.

We have to start with that agreement.

They can't help when they were born just the same way we can't help when we were born.

So we cannot pathologize them for growing up with all of this technology and for this being the default.

But what we can do is start to better understand as leaders what is standing in the way of them trying to

to adopt some of these techniques that for us feel very second nature.

I think if we can have a little more patience to acknowledge that truth, then we can start to discuss what we actually do about it and how we create that practice.

I think where we sometimes have opportunity is just the recognition of, A, these things that were not hard for us do feel like a bigger lift.

So I use the term in my research about social muscle.

Social muscle is...

Metaphorically similar to a physical muscle, a muscle in your body in that when it's underused, it weakens, it atrophies.

These folks, because of their digital structures, being digital natives, don't have as much strength building in some of those in-person synchronous social structures.

They just don't require it.

In a given day, me...