From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce
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Key skills for adaptive workers
From the course: Hiring and Developing Your Future Workforce
Key skills for adaptive workers
- Your main goal as a manager in a time of constant change is to help create adaptive workers. Only by helping to prepare your team for a world where work is increasingly unbundled can you ensure they'll be able to adapt on an ongoing basis. Sure, there are going to continue to be jobs that are static and that won't require constant adaptation. But there's going to be fewer and fewer of those in the future. Look at what's already happened to positions like travel agents, cab drivers, media buyers. The same changes will happen to everyone from truck drivers to graphic designers. If we don't start preparing workers now for constant change, we won't be able to solve the problems of today, much less the challenges of tomorrow. So adaptive workers need four critical Self-Management Skills. They need to be proactive, they need to be opportunistic, they need to be networked, and they need to be self-aware. So first, workers need to be proactive and have what I call agency, the belief that…
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