Transforming Skills and Inclusion: The highlights

David Olusoga MBE 00:06
We're living through one of those rare events where we're at a moment of intergenerational change.

Professor Francesca Gino 00:15
From chaos, I think we all get to learn that we can be actors of change, if we so choose if we're intentional.

Sinead Bovell 00:26
It's not necessarily the technical skills that will drive a successful adoption in your organisation. It's the human skills.

Jim Carrick-Birtwell 00:34
Transforming skills and inclusion very much feels like the story of our time.

Tim Campbell MBE 00:38
How are we going to get people to work in these new environments? How are we making sure that we aren't excluding people as we find new ways to work and new ways to come together? And for us this conference is conversation is all about learning how to do that.

Dr Mark Vernon 00:50
The world transform means through appearances. So the idea is that real transformation comes about when you have an appearance, you look through the appearance to what lies behind it, maybe the spirit, the energy, the archetype, that is informing the appearance and then we make the appearance.

Robert Rowland Smith 01:08
We all have greater diversity within ourselves than sometimes we allow ourselves to recognise and that diversity I think, comes from tapping into things like unconscious forces, which enable self transformation to take place.

Margaret Heffernan 01:20
We have to be prepared by having on hand eager listed, committed individuals ready to bring all their ingenuity and empathy and compassion and inventiveness and curiosity and resourcefulness. To the completely unexpected.

Craig Fenton 01:37
I think one of the most important skills is actually nurturing the skill of creativity.

Kirstie Mackey 01:41
Digital skills are not enough without the human skills. I think problem solving is incredibly important. And also resilience as well, and communication. And I think these are some of the core transferable skills that we've been looking at.

Tim Campbell MBE 01:57
Everybody's talking about the technology of tomorrow, but what about the people of tomorrow? What are we gonna have to do to support them? Here we are

Kirstie Mackey 02:03
watching organisations reshape themselves. And our humanity and people

Hannah Reid 02:06
We're looking CBT, the human leader, we've looked for people who have been prepared to open up a knowledge base to really go deep to broaden their own understanding and allow that into the organisation and being able to be vulnerable. I actually I didn't appreciate it. I didn't know this. Hey, look what I've learned. What have you learned?

Professor Francesca Gino 02:21
It's okay to keep up I didn't experience we need to do so by holding on to our humility, not focusing on the many things that we know, but staying focused on what's left to learn.

Matthew Syed 02:32
When you're alone at all. You see any negative feedback as an opportunity, not a threat, you have an incentive to reach out to diverse voices because you see that as a way of building the collective intelligence of decision making,

Sinead Bovell 02:44
diversity in beliefs, backgrounds, race, gender thought, these are absolutely critical for success in the future of work.

Martin Healiss 02:55
Fantastic sessions today at the Future Talent Learning Conference and the messages particularly around transformation through skills and diversity. What I particularly learned about a curious captain, the compelling leadership story and the criticality of learning new skills.

Laurence Hollobon 03:06
I've been very interested in learning about the need for preparedness and curiosity. Also, as leaders and managers the importance of stimulating very diverse ideas and being at ease with conflict, to be able to encourage diverse thinking seem to

Teresa Kotlicka 03:17
be a really great play on vulnerability, and lots of great personal stories coming to light. And I think that's what also makes it unique and quite special.

Lizzi Jones 03:25
The different topics that you're talking about. It's just made me think in a way that I haven't thought in quite some time.

Charlotte Johns 03:31
I've come away actually with lots to think about as well as having learned a lot

David Olusoga MBE 03:35
the changes coming not from government but for corporations organisations, universities,
charities, which means it's in our hands