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The most important skills of tomorrow, according to five global leaders
Soft Skills
Esteban Bullrich, Argentinian Minister of Education, believes the future work market will be much more dynamic than today’s.
A country-wide survey of almost 900 companies indicated that soft skills – such as teamwork, knowledge of digital tools, an understanding of rules and regulations, responsibility and commitment – are the most relevant for the future.
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Data Literacy And Empathy
Belinda Parmar, Chief Executive Officer of The Empathy Business, believes companies will seek leaders who are able to help them rebuild the empathy we’ve lost with technical, linguistic and mathematical skills, and can understand the information that will continue to emerge. This will require a new kind of “data literacy”, which will be in short supply, and therefore one of the most important skills of tomorrow.
Automation And Soft Skills
Vikas Pota, Chief Executive of Varkey Foundation, believes the jobs that won’t be automated will be those that require abilities like empathy (persuading and working well with others), a positive attitude (relearning and restudying) and resilience. These “soft” skills are hard to teach, thus there will be demand great teachers.
Also, automation will cause the skills needed by the economy to change which makes it impossible to predict which “hard skills” will be necessary.
Transferable Skills
Biola Alabi, founder of Grooming for Greatness, believes that education for future workers must focus more on leadership, flexibility, critical thinking and teamwork.
Skills that allow us to navigate and find comfort in ambiguity will be necessary. A person’s capacity to apply concepts, ideas and problem-solving techniques across different sectors will determine employability.
An Entrepreneurial Spirit
Veronica Colondam, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of YCAB Foundation, believes that if entrepreneurial people are given access to capital, and are taught the skills needed to grow their business (such as financial literacy, innovation and collaboration) and how to apply them, their incomes will increase and a generation of innovators who actively contribute to a better world will rise.
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The Future Work Market
Automation will do away with most existing jobs but it will also create new ones. Retraining in a massive scale will be necessary.
In particular, manual laborers are at risk of unemployment in the absence of retraining, as the new jobs will be in more specialized areas. Governments and employers in every sector are being urged to retrain and re-skill workers to avoid a crisis.
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Curiosity Is Career Fuel
Understanding how your efforts fit into the bigger picture will give your work more meaning and give you new ideas to apply, so you don’t burn out or stagnate. Learning about something you’re curious about, even if it’s not useful to your job, expands your thinking, and impacts everything you do.
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Top 10 Worker Skills In 2020
- complex problem solving
- critical thinking
- creativity
- people management
- coordinating with others
- emotional intelligence
- judgment and decision-making
- service orientation
- negotiation
- cognitive flexibility