"Inter-generational approach and Parental Responsibility"
The main responsibility of the parents from the moment the children are born is to "prepare them to leave"; Although there are various ways of interpreting the expression and many criteria in this regard, it is important to note that today the way of preparing children is very different from the way they prepared us before.
Changes in behavior, tendencies of thought and interpretation of facts are totally contrary to those that were practiced and accepted as valid in generations of the 1970s.
The main values that were instilled in us remain the same, but the definitions and interpretations that are given to each of them are framed in freer and less rigid contexts.
Talent Management has always been, in principle, the responsibility of the Parents and not only of the Teachers; But the way of managing the Talent of the children can no longer remain referential to the past.
Constantly as parents we educate children based on the reference to our childhood and adolescence, and even more critically, with reference to what our parents (grandparents of this next generation) would have done, which is why it does not seem illogical that our arguments are laughable to new generations.
The evolution of societies, the inclusion of technology in almost everything we do and the agility to communicate and find information, have put at a disadvantage those of us who were educated based on criteria that valued and respected the antiquity of our ancestors.
In previous generations, the criteria of adults were not debated, confused as they were, and although sometimes the confusion was more than obvious, they were still respected.
The reality of today is totally contrary, our children and adolescents start from the hypothesis that the criterion of the generations that preceded them is wrong, simply because they did not find it in Google (to mention a search engine); in such a way that before asking us they have already consulted it in the network.
There is no doubt that the education process has evolved, has been reversed, today it is the parents who must update and assimilate the knowledge and skills that our children and adolescents are developing.
Although it is difficult for us to accept it, we do it; We are trying to interfere in the new generations, assimilating ourselves the technological trends, now it is common for our parents and grandparents to have email, chat via cell phone, use Facebook, Twitter and any other tool that allows us to communicate with children and adolescents whom we must educate and train for a future that they reached before.
The inter-generational approach to Talent Management in children and adolescents can become much simpler, if we start from the premise that all generations can and should learn from each other, not necessarily just from the one before us.
Children and adolescents do not want to learn from adults, they will develop that need when they are adults. It is in the middle of life when we learn to value the good of each generation, the wisdom of those who come before us and the occurrences of those who follow us.
Regarding Talent Management, Parents should teach our children and adolescents simple aspects of life such as:
- Find meaning in your life Develop your own criteria (without falling into debauchery), Generate your own resources Validate your thoughts Externalize your emotions Make decisions and face the consequences Negotiate to get what you want Relate to different people (intergenerational) Etc.
The only way to manage human talent is in an environment of freedom, understanding by freedom that the child or adolescent can develop their strengths, aptitudes and abilities, as well as discover their potential and do what they like, which generates challenges and which increases his self-esteem, as a consequence of the understanding of his own being.
It is also important that you understand that freedom is a right and that like all rights it has obligations.
Giving formal education in schools, colleges, universities, does not necessarily mean managing the Talent of children and adolescents; the process can be much more complex or simple than that.
In Colleges and Universities it is common to find students who are training to meet the needs or demands of self-esteem that their parents have, but who at any time will express their dissatisfaction with having to study what they are least passionate about.
A large number of these students feel the moral commitment to study what their parents studied or, failing that, what their parents could not study, and therefore they have a commitment not to disappoint them, in exchange for giving up studying or doing what they would have done. wanted to choose whether they would have had an environment of moral and emotional freedom.
In conclusion; The Fathers of today, we cannot Manage the Talent of the new generations with the foundations learned in the past, we could only educate the new generations if we were born again and we would surely be the first to renounce the old to enjoy the new trends.
Let's prepare our children to leave; but for them to go the route they choose, without emotional or moral burdens that make the process heavier.
Our challenge as Parents is that when our children become adults and must repeat the process, defining the Values to teach them to their own children, rather than the definition remembering our face.
