Robert said: “My experience shaped how I wanted to put
my stamp on my company. Respect always comes around. Every time I have an interaction with my colleagues, I remind myself - Support, Trust, Inclusion, Respect”. Jason had seen a diff erent response, depending on the
generation. “When everyone in the leadership team has been there 20 years, there’s a resistance to doing new things,” he said. “Where I’ve worked with younger more dynamic businesses, visionary ideas are more likely to gain traction.” Richard Foster-Fletcher said: “People need to be far
more versatile about how they work and what the future looks like. T is is a fantastic time for young people to go out there and start solving problems for people, but schools and colleges are not necessarily going the right way about encouraging them to be entrepreneurial. We’re almost telling them they can’t do it unless they have a brilliant idea, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be one brilliant idea. He added: “Gen Alpha will be the fi rst generation to be surrounded by tech all their lives and it’s really interesting to
look at how you market to those people. T ey’re Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube users, that’s where their friends are, and they’re learning on YouTube and Tik Tok. Businesses have to think about how Gen Alpha will behave because that’s who they’re going be to selling to and employing.” T e conversation moved on to mentoring, with Jason,
Amanda and Chris all sharing that they currently mentor. Amanda spoke of her belief in the importance of symbiotic mentoring, of mentor and mentee appreciating and learning from each other. Robert said: “I’ve had lots of bad managers who taught
me how not to manage, you learn to look out for traits in yourself. When I left corporate life, I had someone who was a mentor to me, and she was really helpful. Chris said: “I’ve had a journey with mentors and coaches
since I was about 28 and I’ve invested in people to support me over the years. I have a coach and mentor and part of my work is coaching, so it would be hypocritical not to. I just want to bounce ideas off someone, and I need someone who can help me on that. I’ve discovered things about myself I hadn’t known before.” Jason added that his career had been profoundly
infl uenced by a long-standing mentor. Al Salehian shared that his manager at MBC, a Middle East broadcaster, and at the Associated Press (A.P.) had been a mentor, though he didn’t realise it at the time. Summing up, Bryan said: “As leaders, we should be
guiding people and being living examples of what we think is right. We touch people’s lives every day and the eff ect can be profound, so we must ensure that we constantly live up to that responsibility and become living legacies.”
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