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Relevant Skills for Future Work

Relevant Skills for Future WorkRelevant Skills for Future Work

Activity 1: Download the "Inform Yourself " guide

Research guide with questions to get you started,  links to resources  to become future aware, on www.broadskilling.com

Broadskilling 1. Inform Yourself (docx)

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Activity 1 Resources

SPECIAL: PANDEMIC and Society

SPECIAL: PANDEMIC and Society

SPECIAL: PANDEMIC and Society

McKinsey: Nine Scenarios for the COVID-19 Economy 

GBD: www.gbdeclaration.org (site) and Videos

Forbes: Economic Forecast 2022-23: Recovery from the Pandemic Recession

Video: Seeing the Invisible (Adaptability is crucial)





Key Question: What data-driven risks are posed by COVID-19? 

Predictions about Future Work

SPECIAL: PANDEMIC and Society

SPECIAL: PANDEMIC and Society

PBS Future of Work (2021) VIdeo

Article: 18 Jobs of the Future (no one is prepared for) - 2021  . 

PWC Workforce of the Future research 

Accenture Future Workforce Insights

Recommendation: Watch the Videos listed in the Media section below.

Key Question: How is "work" expected to change from our current experience?


Future Technology

SPECIAL: PANDEMIC and Society

WOrking: Hybrid/Remote/Onsite

 PWC How Will Automation Impact Jobs? 

AI and Automation "What they don't want you to see..." 

 Techrepublic: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2020 

The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE)

Brookings Institute: Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How Machines are Affecting People and Places


Key Question: What is the impacts of ubiquitous technology to life and work?


WOrking: Hybrid/Remote/Onsite

WOrking: Hybrid/Remote/Onsite

WOrking: Hybrid/Remote/Onsite

 The Future of Remote Work: Five things you need to know about the labor market shift [

Gig Economy Data Hub 

The Future of Life Institute WebsiteThe Futurism website 

Video: Changing Work. Changing Workers


Key Question: Where and how will I work? How will my life be?

Future Skills

WOrking: Hybrid/Remote/Onsite

Future Skills

Top 10 In-demand Cybersecurity Skills for 2021

McKinsey Global Institute: Skill Shift Automation and the Future of the Workforce

IIFTF:  Future Work Skills 2020

 Forbes: The 10 Vital Skills You Will Need for the Future of Work (2019)


Key Question: What skills are relevant to the predicted demands of the future of work?

Futurists

WOrking: Hybrid/Remote/Onsite

Future Skills

Broadskilling Endorsed:

Career advice & training for the Future of Work: Marti Konstant  


Others to follow:

Future of Work Strategist: Heather McGowan

The Future Organization: Jacob Morgan


Key Question: How will the future impact individuals, organizations and skills required?

Future Work Resources & Media

Recommended Reading

Future Work Video/Audio Media

Future Work Video/Audio Media

McKinsey Article: "The future is not what it used to be: Thoughts on the shape of the next normal" (April 2020) 

NeuroLeadership Institute Podcast: "Your Brain at Work" - 

Deloitte Article: "Future of Work: Ways of working in uncertain times:  Increasing organizational resilience in the face of COVID-19" (2020)

LinkedIn Pulse Article: What we’ll need to survive, and thrive, amid economic uncertainty,  an excerpt of "Reprogramming the American Dream," by  Kevin Scott, the current CTO of Microsoft, about the  impacts and opportunities of AI and technology in future life and work (2020)


Key Question: What is the human, personal impact of predicted future of work and life?





Future Work Video/Audio Media

Future Work Video/Audio Media

Future Work Video/Audio Media

  • Video: PBS Future of Work Ep1: New Industrial Revolution (2021)
  • Video: PBS Future of Work Ep2: Future Proof (2021)
  • Video: PBS Future of Work Ep3: Changing Work. Changing Workers (2021)
  • Video:  The Digital Skills Gap and the Future of Jobs 2020 - The Fundamental Growth Mindset (Start here - this is a good one to set the stage for future work!)
  • Video: The future of work: is your job safe? (Good overview of trade-offs of future work) from The Economist (Recommended)
  • Video: Automation Entering White Collar Work (2019)
  • Video: Robots and AI: The Future is Automated and Every Job is At Risk (2018) (Older video but worth watching)
  • Video: The Future of Work: A VICE Special Report 
  • Video: WSJ: The Robot Revolution (2018)
  • Video: In the Age of AI - PBS Series (2019)
  • Video: IAM Robotics (2019)
  • Video: Bloomberg "Rise of AI" series on youtube (Awesome video highlighting Canada's AI contributions)
  • Podcast: The Future of Work with Jacob Morgan'
  • Podcast: Making Sense: AI: Racing toward the Brink (Sam Harris)

The Future of Work: the Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The Future of Work: the Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The Future of Work: the Good, The Bad and the Ugly

  • Future of Virtual Internships, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Summer Newsletter (2020)
  • World Economic Forum: World Order is going to be rocked by AI: This is How (2020)
  • The Gig Economy is Making Workers Feel Lonely and Powerless (2019)
  • The Future of Work in an AI Economy: What this means for jobs,income and human purpose (Tony Robbins)
  • Robots are here:  check out Kindred Robots 
  • Like social science, but want to be relevant to technology? Check out Human Factors and Engineering Psychology
  • Worldbank.org: Remote Learning, EdTech & COVID 19


Key Question: What are the potential trade-offs (benefits/costs) if the predictions of the future economy hold true? 




The Future of Education

The Future of Work: the Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The Future of Work: the Good, The Bad and the Ugly

2020 IDC Report: "The Future of Higher Education: Digital Transformation" (Register to Download from Salesforce)

Colleges are closing: See Education Dive.

Inventory your own skills with: EMSI's SkillsMatch,  

Kaplan: Merging degrees with industry certification 

Schools of the Future: Defining WEF: New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

How can we prepare students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? 5 lessons from innovative schools around the world

Education Week: Microsoft, Verizon, and Other Big U.S. Companies Design Their Ideal High School Courses (2020)

Education Week: Data: 5 Big Challenges in Preparing K-12 Students for the World of Work

College Tuition Price History (Data about cost inflation since 1977) 

Parker Dewey: Digital Internships! 

America's Mathematics Curriculum Doesn't Add Up,  2019 by Steven D. Levitt.  


Key Question: What new learning pathways are emerging? Which are declining?


Education Resources

Education Resources

National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) (Independent schools are creating innovative, future-relevant, learning experiences for youth)

The Association for Career and Technical Education (An amazing group with deep experience in helping youth develop workforce-relevant skills)

The Executive Learning Exchange (insights about workforce talent solutions and future skills)

Heterodox Academy (encouraging open inquiry and viewpoint diversity)

The Coddling of the American Mind

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) (promoting free exchange of ideas in education)

VIDEO: The Perilous State of the University

Inquiry Institute: What is Inquiry?  (Recommended for L&D leaders, and Educators)


Key Question:  What instructional, environmental, budgetary and political factors are shaping the future of learning?

Its not just about College

Forbes (2019) "Addressing the Skilled Labor Shortage"

Why do we have a trade skills shortage?

ADDECO: Skilled Trades in Demand (infographic)

Labor Shortages Loom as Most In Demand Workers Retire

Explore "The Trades"


Key Question:  What non-higher education career opportunities are relevant and in-demand in the future of work?  


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