The brief says “help our managers handle Gen Z”. It's mostly not about generations: it's ageism, and it runs both ways. We stage it, and let the room catch itself.
Nobody exposed from the front.
The lesson stays hidden until they're inside it.
A label changes how we treat the same person.
Name the assumption out loud.
One change, checked at 30 days.
Each side has a story about the other. Both stories are wrong. 5 of 6 common older-worker stereotypes are false (Ng & Feldman, 418 studies); AI over-reliance tracks trust in the tool, not age (Lee et al., CHI 2025).
A manager managing a stereotype will get stereotype results.
30 minutes, no deck. We'll send a one-page treatment by Friday.
