For Businesses and Employers of Gen Z
Spring prepares the employers of Gen Z to onboard them with optimism and optimization.
Spring will give you the tools, data and mindset to effectively receive this young cohort into the workplace, to productively work with them, mentor them, and appreciate them. Through consultancies and data-driven workshops, you can spark and accelerate your multi-generational workforce.
“These KIDS. I don’t GET THEM.”
“These Zoomers are breaking work devotion norms. Our organization’s not ready for them!”
“My Gen Z employees are lacking specific skills. How can I help them level up?”
Individual Glow Up for Managers of Gen Z
Engage in a bespoke 1-on-1 data-driven coaching sprint with Founder Keri Mesropov. Develop ways to increase your overall effectiveness, impact and influence with the blooming talent on your team.
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In this 100-day sprint, we’ll have enough time for exploration while prioritizing velocity and results. Together, we will conduct a multi-source personal insights assessment that:
• Identifies what makes you uniquely powerful as a manager, utilizing Gallup’s StrengthsFinder
• Hones your current and future goals as a manager, establishing what defines and motivates you now as well as your aspirational drivers
• Clarifies and refines your personal values, pinpointing where they intersect and diverge from the values of those you manage
• Consults your direct reports for feedback and context
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With this assessment as our guide, we will partner to ensure that, by the end of 100 days, you have:
• An illuminated view of where you and your direct reports align in values—and where there is tension
• A precise destination of where you want to be as a manager in the short and long term
• A crystal-clear view of your management strengths and how to leverage them to help your direct reports bloom
• Invaluable, constructive input illustrating how your direct reports view you as a manager
• A concise action plan and assertive timeline to modernize your management and make you a more open, inclusive, collaborative manager of Gen Z
• Growth metrics and milestones to strive for and celebrate when you hit them
• A “graduation” celebration to ensure your learnings stick
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This 100-day sprint features:
• 4 1-hour sessions for personal assessment (scheduled during the first 30 days)
• 2 1-hour sessions for coaching thereafter
• Support via text and email in between
Per Person $2,500
Cohort Innovation Sprint for Managers of Gen Z
Join a cohort of other leaders cultivating Gen Z professionals and supercharge your management skills. Learn from Founder Keri Mesropov and special guests while also gaining insight from your peers.
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In this 100-day group learning experience, you will:
• Discover your critical strengths as a manager to Gen Zers
• Learn how to precisely leverage your strengths to optimize your leadership, bring velocity to results and lead your team to success
• Improve essential management skills: listening, adapting, communicating, collaborating, giving/receiving feedback
• Hone these manager superpowers through active, interactive and absolute fun practice frameworks and simulations
• Be more extraordinary, fearless and a future-ready leader and mentor
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Why learn in a small cohort?
• Gain valuable insight learning from and with others from different backgrounds
• Share your generational moans and groans in a candid, intimate forum—they stay here!
• Increase your accountability and own your growth through pace setting with your peers
• Enjoy the flexibility of a small group, where learning can be led by interests and needs
• Easily find space to speak up and contribute
• Receive support and build community among the participants, whom you can continue to draw on for insight, inspiration and guidance
• Strengthen your soft skills through real-time practice of superpowers like emotional literacy, empathy, generative listening and negotiating
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This 100-day cohort features:
• 7 one-hour-long live group sessions
• 2 one-hour live private coaching sessions with Keri
• Unlimited email and text support in between sessions
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• Cohort offered twice per year, summer and winter.
Pricing varies
Organizational Glow Up
Engage in an organizational culture study and personalized consulting plan with Founder Keri Mesropov. Through research and data, Spring illuminates your organizational values, beliefs and priorities and those of your team. Equipped with this knowledge, we’ll build a multi-month personalized consulting plan to enable your organization to foster greater understanding and deeper collaboration among your multi-generational workforce. After this glow up, you’ll enjoy greater results and a happier culture.
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Through qualitative and quantitative research, we will:
• Assess your organization’s key culture drivers, workplace norms and employee engagement level
• Evaluate the culture around and impact of company meetings, employee recognition practices, company-wide communication, conflict resolution and feedback processes
• Gauge adherence and belief in company values
• Explore generational biases and beliefs and their origins
• Inventory your team-wide strengths
• Identify the biggest deltas and tightest points of alignment between generations
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With this assessment in hand, we will present the findings first to senior leadership and key stakeholders, then to your full staff via an interactive workshop. Spring then recommends key areas for improvement and addresses these areas with:
• Personal coaching for key stakeholders and changemakers
• Personal 1:1 or 1:cohort coaching and/or advising
• Best, current practice briefings on key areas for improvements
• Workshops (live or recorded)
• A capstone briefing and presentation, prepared and presented by YOU to solidify change, reinforce learnings and ensure accountability
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Following the delivery of the study to your full staff, the consulting portion of our Organizational Glow Up lasts for 6 to 9 months.
Each $79
Soft-Skill Building Workshops
Be a part of a subject-specific workshop affecting your organizational culture and the ability of your employees to thrive. All workshops are held virtually, are 90 minutes long and based on Spring Lab research and findings.
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The ability to negotiate helps us flourish in the workplace, increases our span of influence, enables us to have difficult conversations effectively, and creates a stronger sense of self value. In this workshop, you will:
• Develop an understanding of the art of negotiation and the critical reasons for building this skill
• Learn frameworks and techniques for effectively negotiating things like: recognition, project assignment, access to leadership and mentorship, learning and development opportunities, promotions and compensation
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In a remote or hybrid world, it is harder to passively create a personal network. Yet it is more important than ever to do so, especially in a highly competitive job market. You want a job with a company that aligns with your values, gives you learning and development opportunities and recognizes your amazingness. That won't come from just applying. In this workshop, you will:
• Identify why networking matters
• Discover how to make quality connections who won’t be afraid to teach and mentor you
• Learn how to network remotely and in person
• Establish appropriate questions and requests to make of your connections and what you need to give in return
• Enhance your listening skills
• Develop an elevator speech describing your values and superpowers
• Activate a plan to to start building (or build on) your network
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Giving and asking for feedback is the hardest skill to develop. It’s uncomfortable; it’s vulnerable. But done with care, it’s a propeller to growth and advancement. In this workshop, you will:
• Understand the importance of feedback
• Establish a framework for giving and receiving feedback
• Learn how to ask for feedback and how to change as a result of it
• Draw on stories from your past to forensically examine how to make feedback work better for you
• Make it a habit: develop a plan to ask for, receive and adapt to feedback
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Each one of us enters the workforce with beliefs about work, its meaning and its value in our lives. We have ideas—understood or covert—about what success looks like. Learn how to carry forward positive legacies to guide you and uncover ideas and beliefs that are holding you back.
In this workshop, you will:
• Discover your work origin story—your work heroes and heroines
• Explore why you believe what you do about work
• Create an ancestral “tree” to understand where these beliefs, values and definitions originate
• Pressure-check how your work origin story may help or hinder your success
• Challenge those beliefs that might not serve you or your future work
• Develop clarity on your mindset towards work
• Create a plan to leverage and amplify the positive legacies of your work origin story
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It’s natural to want to turn away from hard conversations. But avoiding difficult discussions stagnates personal and organizational growth. Poor conflict resolution also lowers employee engagement and productivity. To promote productive conversations and be effective at resolving conflict, you must create a sense of space, cultivate curiosity and eliminate rigidity.
In this workshop, you will:
• Explore data showing why it’s important to speak up and engage in tough discussions
• Come away with proven strategies and techniques for engaging in difficult yet culture- and confidence-building conversations
• Develop confidence in raising complicated issues
• Foster a mindset of curiosity and openness, assuming the best intent of those you engage with
• Practice how to listen effectively and recognize the unspoken signals in conversation
• Identify how to regulate your demeanor for optimal communication during conflict
• Learn how to engage and ignite others in a positive, productive co-creation of solutions
Real-Time Idea Collaboration
“But I need help on something urgent right now!”
Let Spring be your thought partner! You'll get attentive, creative, real-time collaboration and advice. Enlarge your thinking and gain new perspectives on challenges and opportunities. Spring can help you clarify the people or culture issue you are facing right now. Together, we will ponder and define a new approach that complements and resonates with your mission, vision and values.
Available for an hourly fee of $350. Show up with your idea or question about people or culture issues. Limit of 3x (3 hours) per 12-month cycle.
The Spring Lab
The Spring Lab is an incubator for talent research, published insights and human-centric experimentation. Through the Lab, Spring conducts interviews and bespoke research about Gen Z and multi-generational workplaces. Spring also hosts regular workplace experiments that companies and individuals can elect to join for a fee.
Book an Exploratory Conversation
Let’s chat about how we might work together to help you or your team reach your goals. Tell me what services excite you or join an experiment with the Spring Lab.