FUTURE SKILLS FUTURE THINKING

The Scope for Future Skills

Industry leaders have frequently cited the need for the development of ‘soft skills’, with exactly these skills being frequently demonstrated by outstanding, high performing individuals. Thinking has evolved further to reflect the critical nature of these skills; human skills, critical skills, or power skills are now recognised as the key differentiators observed when analysing high and low performance. As the world continues with the pace of change currently experienced, mastering these skills will soon become the determining factor for success. Where technology transformation and radical disruption forces humans to distinguish themselves and the value they bring to a world that has readily adopted artificial intelligence, blockchain and metaverse, it will be the human operating system that will make the difference. Building this improved human operating system will ensure employees can respond effectively, adapting, understanding, self-leading and evolving their own capabilities to be able to navigate through continued uncertainty – to thrive , rather than survive. In addition to developing ‘human skills’, we need to carry out inner development in order to become future fit. Without enhancing our values and convictions, employees and their leaders will lack the capacity to deal with our increasingly complex environment and challenges. Following this line of thought – and inspired by the work of the United Nations and the Sustainability Development Goals – we have seen the launch of the Inner Development Goals, a framework which has been defined by industry leaders as a means to radically intervene with a ‘new playbook’ for future thinking. Whilst still in its early stages of conception, the rationale reflects the work that has already begun on future skills and the development of an evolved set of capabilities which will serve both those organisations who envision a sustainable and better future, and a humanity that will inherit the consequences of our labours.

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