The Future of Work: 10 6 Essential Skills

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Reminders •  Asking

questions •  Chat

Who am I? §  Researcher/

Analyst §  Business-owner §  Student §  Aspiring

Rainmaker (social innovation, policy, gov2.0)

§  Portlander, Oregonian

Skill [skil] 1. the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well: Carpentry was one of his many skills. 2. competent excellence in performance; expertness; dexterity: The dancers performed with skill. 3. a craft, trade, or job requiring manual dexterity or special training in which a person has competence and experience: the skill of cabinetmaking.

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A Skills Gap?

Meet Amye (@msamye)

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“There's a lot of things that are strongly believed in the business community that simply aren't true - like, for example, the idea that there's a big skills gap, that employers can't find qualified people, that the problem is that schools are failing and people don't have the appropriate academic skills.” Peter Cappelli

What to expect

What do you think?

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1 Wide-Angle

View

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2 Network

Smartness

Transition

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Networks. Because today, “the smartest person in the room is the room.” David Weinberger

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3 Radical

Openness

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4 Relentless

Experimentation

5 Unique Value

“Why are words like ‘love,’ ‘devotion,’ and ‘honor’ so seldom heard within the walls of corporate-dom? Why are the ideals that matter most to human beings the ones most notably absent in managerial discourse?”

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6 Regeneration

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WIDE ANGLE

VIEW

6 Superpowers

NETWORK SMARTNESS

RADICAL OPENNESS

RELENTLESS EXPERIMENTATION

UNIQUE VALUE

REGENERATION

Did we cover what we planned to? ü What will work look like in the future? ü What skills will be needed? ü Where and how can these skills be learned? ü How can the skill gap be avoided? ü What is an “unjob?” ü Will self-employed, free-agent contract workers be the workforce of the future?

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Thanks!

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