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What is Broadskilling

Who Needs a Plan?

Why Broadskilling?

Students: Do you have a short list of roles and skills in-demand in the future economy? Do you have a specific plan to be employable?

Educators: Do you have a teachable point of view about the future of work, and how to help youth plan to have a relevant career?

Adults: Can you identify high demand/low supply skills that align with your goals, interest, and capabilities?

Why Broadskilling?

Globally, the world is facing an uncertain economy, driven by technology, scarce resources, and tremendous opportunity.

Career planning requires a broad understanding of what is driving the emerging future of work, before selecting specific skills and learning pathways that fit your life and career goals.

Think Broadly. Learn Deeply.

What am I to do?

Why Broadskilling?

What am I to do?

Become Future Aware: Develop your own informed view about the future of work. It is up to you to navigate your destiny. The step provides context before selecting a career.

Plan to be Relevant: Determine a plan to develop relevant skills, based on your own analysis of the opportunities in the future of work and your own self-awareness. You need to establish a clear direction before decisions about your path.

Build your Personal Brand: Provide evidence of skills. A resume is not enough. Build an indisputable portfolio of skills to attract employers.

Presentation and Publications

"Nurturing the talent pipeline for an emerging global workforce" October, 2018. — Presenting "Nurturing the talent pipeline for an emerging global workforce" in October, 2018 at the Executive Learning Exchange annual conference.

With "Ronald" at McDonald's Headquarters! — Mr. Busby at McDonalds Corporation World Headquarters

With Secretary Scott Stump, OCTAE, U. S. Dept. of Education. Feb. 2020 — Richard Busby & Asst. Secretary Scott Stump, OCTAE, U. S. Dept. of Education. iACTE Conf. 2.14.20

Meeting Gen. Colin Powell. USA (Ret) at a corporate event.

Presentation: Illinois ACTE Annual Conference. Feb 2020. — Mr Busby's presentation at the Illinois ACTE Annual Conference (pre COVID lockdown).

iACTE, ACTE, and Dept. of Education leadership at the iACTE.org conference 2.13.2020.

Drawing for me by a former AWESOME student at IMSA.EDU — Mr. Busby offers "DADvice" to help students become future-ready, both as a student advocate and using the learning blog.

Co-Author: Chapter 13: "Trends and Issues in Instructional Design." — Mr Busby Co-Authored "Managing Scarce Resources in Training Projects" in 2 editions of *Trends and Issues in Instructional Design.*

2020: Live Webcast with Thoughtium CEO Anthony Ewing. — Click to watch Mr Busby on Thoughtium's "Navigating Now" live webcast on September 17, 2020

Notified of Trademark Approval September 16, 2020 — Click to see a video of the broadskilling career planning tools.

Mr Busby directed a Summer STEM Camp in South Holland, IL (2018) — *Mr Busby directing a Summer STEM Camp in South Holland, IL (2018)*

Mr. Busby featured in IMSA Promo Video for National Science Teacher Association Conference — Click to see Mr Busby discuss "Inquiry-based Learning" for National Science Teacher Association Conference promo video

Mr. Busby's publications and presentations, featured on digital commons. — Click to read Mr. Busby's publications on digital commons.

Broadskilling News

May 2021 Exec. Board Membership

Broadskilling Founder, Richard Busby, M.S. joins Executive Board of the newly established International Advisory Board for Online Learning.

July 2020 Connector Games Partnership

ConnectorGames is a reality. Stay tuned to www.connectorgames.com for information about Employability Connectors, Note-to-Note Music Connectors, Mathematics and games in other content areas, coming in 2021.

July 10, 2020, by Richard Busby, M.S., founder of Broadskilling.com

Broadskilling™ announces a partnership with Cashcrunch Games and Skills4Students to design and produce “Employability Connectors,” a learning game to help students build skills that employers need (Estimated release by October 2020).

“I am pleased to work with Paul Vasey, an amazing game designer, former educator, founder of cashcrunchgames and financial literacy advocate

and Dr. Cary Green, soft skills expert, author, founder of Skill4Students and former university professor, to design a motivating learning game that aligns with dimension 2 of the Broadskilling framework, “Plan to Build Relevant Skills.” I look forward to taking this action to combine the Broadskilling project assets with proven Financial Literacy learning game design, and Soft Skill expertise to enable youth to build skills relevant to future work."