One of my business mentors, Matt Church, brought this paper from the University of Phoenix Research Institute to my attention recently. It makes a case for the following ten skills as the ones to develop and/or keep on top of:
1. Sense-making
2. Social intelligence
3. Novel & adaptive thinking
4. Cross-cultural competency
5. Computational thinking
6. New-media literacy
7. Transdisciplinarity
8. Design mindset
9. Cognitive load management
10. Virtual collaboration
While for me cognitive load management, because of the sheer amount of information (just like this) that is coming at us, will be one of our biggest challenges, can I suggest to you that we will need to rely more than ever on all our cognitive capabilities to assess and understand the skills we will need for the future?
We will need to investigate and explore more often, trial quickly, be keen observers of our trials and the trials of others and ensure we are exceptional listeners. In the circle of knowledge diagram above I equate these skills back to our core senses for assessing the world in which we live. Make sense to you?
Bryan is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making and influencing decision makers, born from his more than twenty years of facilitating executive and board workshops.
Bryan’s experience as a risk practitioner includes the design and implementation of risk management programs for more than 150 organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Bryan is the author of Risky Business : How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty; Persuasive Advising : How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon, and Team Think : Unlock the Power of the Collective Mind [to be published in 2022].
He is licenced by the RMIA as a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) and is the designer and facilitator of their flagship Enterprise Risk Course since 2019.
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In fact, all work on the basic competence in any activity, and it is still the top number - Sense-making.
Thank you for a good question.