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Resilient companies develop their people.
We need to change the perception of learning so that employees volunteer to re-skill.
‘Just in time’ education doesn’t work. We need to instil within people a love of, and aptitude for, learning
We want to educate people in the skills they need today, but what about the skills of tomorrow? Nobody can predict the future.
Cope with uncertainty by leaning into curiosity. Uncertainty is where you discover stuff.
In an age of crisis many organisations have the people they need. It’s up to them to cherish and develop their people in a meaningful way.
Dr Margaret Heffernan's sixth and most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020. It quickly became a bestseller and was nominated for the Financial Times Best Business Book award, was one of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2021 and was chosen as the “Medium Best of the Best” business book.
Margaret’s third book, Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better,described as “meticulously researched…engagingly written…universally relevant and hard to fault.”
Her TED talks have been seen by over 27 million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes.
Unpredictability within society, and in workplaces, means that it's important to have a workforce that can respond to uncertainty.
Forward-thinking organisations recognise that change in their businesses must be at least as fast as the change happening in the outside world. Radical transformation means that both individuals and organisations must continuously reinvent themselves, developing new abilities and investing in new skills.
Imbuing people with a love of learning will ensure they can respond to change, enabling businesses to be more agile and resilient. For 20 years, firstly as Changeboard and now as Future Talent Learning, we’ve explored the skills, mindsets and behaviours people need for the changing world of work.
Find out how you can upskill your employees with the most in-demand human-centred skills, which can be applied and practised in the flow of work.