Corporate Training | The 10 Job Skills You’ll Need in 2020 and Beyond

Corporate Training | The 10 Job Skills You’ll Need in 2020 and Beyond

According to The Future of Jobs Report1 2016, 65% of children entering education today will end up in careers that don’t yet exist, and much of this will be attributable to the rapid advancements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The above sounds sobering especially when many of us have children who are still within or entering the education system, and we are still trying to adjust to the disruptive impact caused by the 4th Industrial Revolution’s (4IR) robotics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality and the like.  While we’re still struggling with the effects of the 4IR, experts are already talking about the 5th Industrial Revolution  (5IR).  In the Fifth Industrial Revolution, humans and machines will dance together, metaphorically. At Davos 2019, an event sponsored by Forbes, MIT and Tata had the theme “Blockchain+AI+Human = Magic”2.

With these impending changes, the top 10 skills recommended by the same Future of Jobs WEF report would unlikely change as these 10 skill sets are crucial in handling the uncertain future.

1. Complex problem solving
2. Critical thinking
3. Creativity
4. People management
5. Coordinating with others
6. Emotional intelligence
7. Judgment and decision making
8. Service orientation
9. Negotiation
10. Cognitive flexibility

With human beings still in the equation in 5IR, the ability to lead, have the emotional intelligence and people management skills to coordinate, influence and motivate others towards an organization’s goals would be crucial.

As an advocate of women in leadership, Ms. Kim Underhill,who is the President of Daughters of Tomorrow as well as the President of the Singapore Business and Professional Women’s Association, hopes to inspire women and a generation to Be The Change before change changes them.

​I want to help women fulfil their potential- I believe that it’s just as important to help other women to take their career to the next level. There is so much more that we can do.  As quoted her interview from Her World magazine’s interview: https://www.herworld.com/stuff-do/women-now/true-story-i-took-my-children-and-fled-my-abusive-husband

Armed with over 23 years of international business and management experience in the food-service industry, Kim has held major commercial roles managing fortune 500 key accounts and senior executive roles leading change through strategic and organisational development, increasing people effectiveness and business performance.

Influenced by her mentor, she is convinced that by focusing and growing people, in turn, people will contribute to the business, organisation, and society at large. Thus, when asked about what values she holds dearly, without hesitation, she mentioned: “My primary purpose is about people – what can I bring to the people and how can I grow them.”  an excerpt from the book “Effective Asian Leadership: Today and Tomorrow (Perspectives of 100 Leaders in Asia)“

Kim utilizes the FAST approach to guide her team and clients in handling the complexities when seeking out new markets in the 21st century.  The F.A.S.T. approach looks at the key essentials needed to ( First Impressions, Alignment—People, Significant—Flexibility and Trust—Actions) counter the challenges faced in 21st-century businesses.  Click on the link to read Kim’s full article: The F.A.S.T Approach To New Markets In The 21st Century  Visit Kim Underhill‘s page on the corporatetrainerconnect.com platform to connect and find out more.

Thank you for taking the time to read this article. This article is part of the series from our newly launched platform (https://corporatetrainerconnect.com) where we help connect corporations to trainers in the region. You can now search, qualify and connect directly with your best-fit trainer on one single platform, saving you time and hassle. We aim to share the subject matter expertise of our qualified trainers on the https://corporatetrainerconnect.com/ platform through these articles.

References:

1. The Future of Jobs Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum, January 2016.
2. What the Fifth Industrial Revolution is and why it matters, World Economic Forum, May 2019.  Author: Pratik Gauri, India President, 5th Element Group PBC & Jim Van Eerden, resident, 5th Element Group PBC.