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Global leader in Digital Citizenry joins the Academy In keeping with our goal of developing new skills building programs to meet our fast changing landscape the Academy has collaborated with Venessa Paech, a founder of Community Management globally, to create modules in the fundamentals of Digital Citizenry. Not sure how to design your distributed work environment …
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Using Uniquely Human Skills to navigate to a post-pandemic future One of the challenges we face in communicating the application of the uniquely human skills taught in our programs comes from a lack of exposure organisations have to action in practice. Aside from my role in imagining and leading The Future Works Skills Academy I have …
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The Adaptation Advantage: Answers for the Here & Now ‘Rapid unlearning and adaptation are both about how we embrace and absorb new skills and how we let go of old ones. To be able to do both effectively and constantly, they argue, requires a mind shift and an identity shift—a letting go of “who we …
CJ Mills – FWSA Novel & Adaptive Thinking Skills Coach FWSA: You are the FWSA Novel & Adaptive Thinking Skills Coach. How did you become interested in this subject? CJ: I founded my company, Creative Adaptive Thinking, with the idea of creating solutions by adapting processes and thinking strategically. I officially became interested in the …
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Can Video be optimized for Communication & Learning? Elizabeth Choe Tells Us How Fast Facts Being interviewed: Elizabeth Choe MITTopic: The role of video as a learning tool and how to optimize video for learningWhy are we talking about it?: Recent events have pushed many workers into the cloud, and have businesses mobilised to convert …
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People Trust Machines to Do Human Jobs, but How Much? Think about a typical trip to the supermarket. After you buy your Greek yoghurt, pre-packaged baby spinach, blueberries and some almond milk for your morning smoothie, you wave your credit card and get on with your day. In that short shopping trip, you have placed …
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Automation and The Productivity Paradox When McDonald’s introduced Automated Ordering Stations at our local restaurant two years ago, a friendly young teenager stood beside the machines to explain to us how to use them. As I tapped in my order. I asked the young person what this innovation would mean for employees at McDonald’s like …
The World Economic Forum’s 8 Futures of Work: Lifelong Learning is the New Black Hot off the press, The World Economic Forum’s White Paper Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and Their Implications is the first in a series by the WEF’s System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Education, Gender and Work. You can download …
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A Closer Look at Moore’s Law In 2015, the year that Back to the Future II was supposed to have taken place, many of us that grew up in the 1980s looked back to the promises of that film and asked, quite reasonably, ‘Hey, where’s my flying car?’ Despite some cosmetic and performance changes that …
Thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution? Lessons from the Blue Layer (Photo by Katarzyna Urbanek on Unsplash) I have recently become obsessed with ocean stingers. But not just any ocean stingers – the focus of my passion is Blue Bottles and their extended family. I spend much of my life by the ocean (a recent change) and of …
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