Future-Proof Your Career
Business Strategy, Keynote or 2-4 Hour Workshop
Technology and computing power are advancing at exponential speeds. How fast are you improving your skills? It is impossible for us to keep up with our technology. What are the implications of this phenomenon on your future employment?
Companies are investing in technology at an ever-greater rate, to fill their skills gaps and labor shortage. With rising costs of employment and skilled labor shortages, many employers are struggling to find the talent they need.
Technology advances up until 2015 meant an increase in employment and the standard of living. That is no longer true. The current economic data suggests that evolution of technology is contributing to slower labor and wage growth. For the first time in history, people are starting to lose jobs to machines. This is a trend that is expected to accelerate.
Technology is replacing left brain functions like accounting, research, analysis, hiring, dangerous work, and highly cognitive brain work. As computing power expands, there is no job that is safe from technology replacing humans. What will happen to many of the high paying jobs of the past in science, technology, engineering, and math?
The high cognitive careers will still be important, there will just be fewer of them. Those who will succeed at the highest level in these, and other careers will need to learn additional skills such as building relationships, brainstorming, collaborating, and leading.
In the future, technology will be capable of doing most jobs. However, some qualities, skills, and abilities will never be replaced. You can increase your value to current and future employers by improving these.
Learn why many of the skills we need to succeed in the future are shrinking when the demand is rising and what you can do about it.
Technology is replacing left brain functions like accounting, research, analysis, hiring, dangerous work, and highly cognitive brain work. As computing power expands, there is no job that is safe from technology replacing humans. What will happen to many of the high paying jobs of the past in science, technology, engineering, and math?
The high cognitive careers will still be important, there will just be fewer of them. Those who will succeed at the highest level in these and other careers will need to learn additional skill such as building relationships, brainstorming, collaborating, and leading. In the future, technology will be capable of doing most jobs. However, some qualities, skills, and abilities will never be replaced. You can increase your value to current and future employers by improving these.
Develop the skills you need to stay relevant
- Empathy is the foundation of everything you will need to be successful in the future. It is the basis of relationship and trust. It is what will separate the good from the great.
- Communication: How you deliver a message is as, or sometimes more important than the message itself.
- Harness the power of story. The right kind of narrative is more powerful than logic. Learn to use story in persuasion, AAR, and in learning and development.
- Learn the elements of high team performance. More important and complex work and innovation is being done through team collaboration.
- Enhance your leadership skills and take greater accountability.
- Understand how you can be a more effective negotiator.
- Improve how you lead or manage projects.
Understand the benefits to your organization and projects of harvesting knowledge to bring clarity and meaning to your data.
- The benefits and challenges of written reports.
- Using images, videos and story to capture and convey what really happened and the context behind it.
- How to get people to tell the truth.