{"id":55682,"date":"2016-06-15T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=55682"},"modified":"2016-06-15T12:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:27:34","slug":"reflections-on-5-essential-skills-you-need-to-keep-your-job-in-the-next-10-years-moran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/06\/15\/reflections-on-5-essential-skills-you-need-to-keep-your-job-in-the-next-10-years-moran\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;5 essential skills you need to keep your job in the next 10 years&#8221; [Moran]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3060813\/the-future-of-work\/5-essential-skills-you-need-to-keep-your-job-in-the-next-10-years\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>5 essential skills you need to keep your job in the next 10 years<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from fastcompany.com by Gwen Moran<br \/>\n<em>Automation may affect half of jobs. Here are five areas to develop to keep yourself employed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts\/quotes <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Trendspotting<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Collaborating in new ways<\/li>\n<li>Building brands\u2014even as employees<\/li>\n<li>Learning next-level technology<\/li>\n<li>Developing your emotional intelligence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Trendspotting<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">With the workplace changing so quickly, it\u2019s essential to develop systems to not only monitor those changes, but to distill the information and training you\u2019ll need to keep up with them. <\/span>That means staying abreast of industry developments, taking classes, attending trade events, and following thought leaders who are talking about your sector. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">It also means being observant about the day-to-day tasks and functions that matter and how they\u2019re changing,<\/span> separating anomalies from trends.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Looking for the next changes and remaining ahead of the curve in learning about them<\/span> will be essential to remaining among the most marketable employees.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">following trends and thought leadership<\/span> in your own sector and ensuring that your skills are staying up to date will also play a role.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;remaining employable will require embracing rather than eschewing tech changes<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Pay attention to what\u2019s happening <\/span>in the most advanced workplaces in your field and prepare. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">That way, you\u2019ll be ahead of the game when the changes come to you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> It is great to see an article that encourages trendspotting, being aware of what&#8217;s happening in the world around us, and looking upwards\/into the horizons as key skills!<\/strong>\u00a0 Given the pace of change, this is becoming critical for people to do &#8212; otherwise, we risk being blindsided by changes &#8212; by incoming &#8220;waves&#8221; of change &#8212; that we didn&#8217;t see coming. We don&#8217;t want to be tapped on the shoulder, personally escorted to that conference room with all of the windows having cardboard on them, and then be let go&#8230;to our utter shock and dismay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rounded wp-image-35564 wp-post-image aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.careerealism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/laid-off-get-back-immediately.jpg\" alt=\"Laid Off Get Back On Track\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Image from:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerealism.com\/laid-off-get-back-immediately\/\" target=\"_blank\">ttp:\/\/www.careerealism.com\/laid-off-get-back-immediately\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>This also means that we should be teaching more about trendspotting and futurism in K-20.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Further questions\/thoughts:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Will our students be able to pivot? To reinvent themselves? <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">To practice lifelong learning?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Will our students have the ability to peer into the horizons and be able to ascertain potential scenarios and directions that could impact them? Will they have the problem solving skills to plan for potential plans of action to address these scenarios?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Does each of us have an effective learning ecosystem that is robust enough &#8212; and up-to-date &#8212; that will help us adapt, learn, and grow?<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 essential skills you need to keep your job in the next 10 years &#8212; from fastcompany.com by Gwen Moran Automation may affect half of jobs. Here are five areas to develop to keep yourself employed. Excerpts\/quotes (emphasis DSC): Trendspotting Collaborating in new ways Building brands\u2014even as employees Learning next-level technology Developing your emotional intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,387,174,86,209,324,159,72,210,237,533,37,35,95,7,15,449,44,436,248,480,310,66,212,206,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-business","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-curriculum","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-emerging-technologies","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-global-globalization","category-learning-ecosystem","category-lifelong-learning","category-marketplaces","category-pace-of-change","category-reinvent","category-relationships","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-trends","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55682"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55694,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55682\/revisions\/55694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}