Now-Proofing Your Skills

Now-proofing your skills.

Why? How?

I completed the online certified course ‘‘Life After COVID-19: Get Ready for our Post-Pandemic Future‘ hosted by Jane McGonigal. She invited fellow futurists to gain clarity on ‘Action For Transformation’.

Project Title

Now-proofing your skills

Pattern From the Past

MIT and the World Economic Forum have identified an urgent global need to reskill and upskill the workforce. But are companies, educational institutions and large consultancies failing to support people who are not in control of the system to fix their skills for the now – for distributed working and learning?

Innovation for the Future

Any worker from anywhere and any discipline can develop and improve remote and distributed work/learning skills through the 40-day online workshop facilitated by Harold Jarche, with an international cohort and host, on-demand coaching and a global community of practice, The Perpetual Beta Coffee Club, after completing the workshop one week at a time. There is also my list of global communities on the future of work/learning/community/leadership that may be of interest to you.

Action for Transformation

My participation in the distributed work skills workshop with a global cohort makes me realize the importance of sharing reflections and lessons learned, work and learning in progress – out loud through a blog post series, the #PKMastery Series, a future skills map, and global community conversations on working and learning in a networked society.

Make a micro-plan

“What could you do in your own “first 5 minutes” to get this work underway, right now?” ~ Jane McGonigal, IFTF

Frequent use and review of the Future Work Skills 2020 map in the IFTF report to quickly assess each skill on a scale of 1 to 5 to create my own state of distributed work and learning skills, share it in a conversation with a peer, activate my strengths on my own, in any teams, networks and communities.