About This Episode

0:00 Intro & Advance Poll Question – “Which is the biggest people-based challenge you face in building innovation & change inside your company?” Top 2 responses – #1 Poor, low ambition leadership and #2 Fear of failure and aversion to risk.

2:50 The Future of Work Infographic – the 120 facets of the Future of Work and the notion “Culture is the Operating System Your Company Runs On”.

4:00 The Theme of our Webcast – “The Future of Work” – various definitions from our advance survey and our Futureproofed Leader survey.

6:10- Announcing our Future of 2020+ Foresights Initiatve  – a research safari and collective on the Future of Work.

7:10 The Frame Up – why is this discussion valuable from a talent, skills and careers standpoint?

9:30 – Introduction of special guest panelists – Laura Goodrich from GWT Next,  Behice Ece Ilhan from Mintel & Camilo Russi from Fulfilling Future

12:40  How Do We Build Future-Ready Talent Driven Cultures – shine on unconscious bad behaviours and move to intended ones,  the market and workforce is seamless – the skills are connected because the market is connected, the fear of uncertainty and building change-friendly cultures, are cultures built and intentional or are they serendipitous?, the need for things to stick, the need for ambassador leaders and talent engagement

21:15 How do we Find Future-ready Talent –  fetishizing experience and under-estimating learning & knowledge, uncertainty management skills and the need to learn how to learn – analytical thinking, stress management, energy & time management, physical well-being, conflict management, the need for connection between strategy & people, what is the role of HR?,  fear of being judged but who cares and the worse offence is to be judged on doing nothing, talent will go where the cool projects are and the world is pivoting back to larger companies

27:40 The Skills of The Future – strategic thinking, creative problem solving, leadership skills and creativity skills as upper right hand quadrant skills, adding one skill – strategic detachment – letting go of who you are to ensure you stay relevant and not swimming against the current, skills are manifestations of culture, “fluidity” in between jobs and skills and a “yes, I can” practical optimism

31;40 The Leadership Skills of The Future –  the 21 leader skills of the future –  the top 3 from our survey – #1 Adaptive Intelligence, #2 Experimentation and #3 Purpose-driven but also discussions on change skillset, agility, cultural elements, tech-savvy aptitudes and data literacy, the needs for leaders to be practising role models, the concepts may not be changing but traits underneath may be changing and contemporizing, the importance of “one voice” changing the room, the challenge of anchoring biases.

41:05 Change Agents of the Future  – the need for generalists > specialists, three books Focus (Daniel Goleman),  Range (David Epstein) and Deep Medicine (Eric Topol) .

44:00 How Can Companies Access These Skills – emphasize personal skills in recruitment, less emphasis on subject matter expertise/need for cross industry experience & greater spectrum of life skills, break boundaries & silos, the role of education needs to be reformed and the paradox between dispersed skills vs. non-diverse workloads 

48:30  Best Advice for The Future – getting uncomfortable with uncertainty, explore distant stuff particularly early in their careers, trust in your own madness, surround yourself with people that are different, don’t wait for your organization to coalesce these people, problem solve for big challenges

50:40 Future Webinars –  “Company purpose and meaning” biggest looked forward to topics

51:00  F:N Housekeeping & Closeout – our future book, next webinar “The Futureproofing 2020 Awards” December 19th and our webcast hub,