Ep 3 | Leading Gen Z Employees with Dr. Tim Elmore

Will your church be ready for the go or no-go? welcome to the current i'm joined today by my co-host and producer eric epperson eric tell us a little bit about our guest today

thrilled uh jason we've really got a just a real ringer here so our guest today has spent more than 40 years developing young leaders he worked directly under the john maxwell group for 20 years before founding growing leaders it's an atlanta-based non-profit that has trained over half a million leaders worldwide in 2023 that organization merged with maxwell leadership foundation Our friend Dr. Elmore has written over 35 books.

His newest book, I've got a copy right here.

I bought the hardbound edition, right? That's the good deal stuff here.

Written over 35 books.

His newest book is called The Future Begins with Z.

This is 10 years of research distilled into nine strategies for leading a generation that's currently like walking through the front doors of our society.

organizations and offices and is disrupting the workplace as we know it.

There's a stat in here that just really stopped me in my tracks.

It says that four out of five hiring managers say that Gen Z is the most difficult population they've ever worked with.

This is from the book.

And then almost one out of three leaders avoid hiring them altogether.

So our guest today, he spent more than a decade with focus groups with these young people and has come out.

Here's the exciting thing.

He's come out more hopeful than he was when he started.

Dr. Tim Elmore, welcome to The Current.

Thank you, Eric.

It's great to be with you guys.

Tim, I'm grateful you're here.

Will your church be ready for the go or no-go? welcome to the current i'm joined today by my co-host and producer eric epperson eric tell us a little bit about our guest today

thrilled uh jason we've really got a just a real ringer here so our guest today has spent more than 40 years developing young leaders he worked directly under the john maxwell group for 20 years before founding growing leaders it's an atlanta-based non-profit that has trained over half a million leaders worldwide in 2023 that organization merged with maxwell leadership foundation Our friend Dr. Elmore has written over 35 books.

His newest book, I've got a copy right here.

I bought the hardbound edition, right? That's the good deal stuff here.

Written over 35 books.

His newest book is called The Future Begins with Z.

This is 10 years of research distilled into nine strategies for leading a generation that's currently like walking through the front doors of our society.

organizations and offices and is disrupting the workplace as we know it.

There's a stat in here that just really stopped me in my tracks.

It says that four out of five hiring managers say that Gen Z is the most difficult population they've ever worked with.

This is from the book.

And then almost one out of three leaders avoid hiring them altogether.

So our guest today, he spent more than a decade with focus groups with these young people and has come out.

Here's the exciting thing.

He's come out more hopeful than he was when he started.

Dr. Tim Elmore, welcome to The Current.

Thank you, Eric.

It's great to be with you guys.

Tim, I'm grateful you're here.