In order to pick up older colleagues as well, young managers should approach changes cautiously and not push through every procedure they have thought up with all their might.
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Berlin When Zoe Nogai, 26, sent a message to one of her employees a while back, she didn’t think much of it. “Being left on read also kills in a different way,” she writes to her team member, meaning: She is nervous because her manager has already read one of her messages but has not yet answered it.
“For me, that was a completely normal sentence,” says Nogai. For her employee, who is in his mid-30s, there is a need for translation. He wrote to his boss that he first had to google it to understand her message. Later, Nogai says, they both laughed at the incident.
The need to address older colleagues differently than her peers was something Zoe Nogai had to learn. About a year and a half ago, the 26-year-old took over project management in a large German telecommunications group – and with it a team of eleven, all of whom are older than her.
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