Skills Internal Communicators Need In The Future
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The document discusses the evolving skills required for the future workforce, emphasizing the importance of critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication. It highlights the need for a strong personal brand and adaptability in a changing work environment influenced by automation and digital communication. The conclusion stresses that every employee should embrace their role as a communicator and continually reassess personal goals to remain relevant.
Skills Internal Communicators Need In The Future
- 1. Internal Communications Skills You Will Need In The Future An Intraskope learning offering Aniisu K Verghese July 2017
- 2. The world of work is changing https://hbr.org/2016/03/work-in-the-future-will-fall-into-these-4- categories
- 3. The new normal 3 63% of Indian employees believe automation will take over process-based work ADP (2016)
- 4. Social, digital and mobile communication biggest change seen by communicators 4
- 5. Rise in user generated content 5
- 6. Gary Hamel on Management 2.0 "We need organizations where people come in expecting to be leaders and to have responsibility. So you need to hire people who want to grow and lead, have a holistic understanding of the business, how the organization works and be financially literate. 6 http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06- 14/news/39976766_1_gary-hamel-management-guru-innovation/2
- 7. Skills you will need in the future The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers will now reap societys richest rewards and share its greatest joys. Dan Pink https://sites.google.com/site/pinks6sense s/meaning
- 8. Critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication preferred The skill set required for the 21st century student is vastly different from when we started the Best Colleges survey 20 years ago. Then the three Rs of reading, writing and arithmetic were paramount. Now it's the four Cs-critical thinking, collaboration, creativity and communication. Institutions of higher learning need to provide an education that keeps pace with an increasingly modern workplace where global protectionism and advancing automation are making jobs redundant and changing the notion of leisure time. 8 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/bestcolleges/2017/
- 9. Your personal brand the most important currency in the age of human-machine partnerships As the rise of reputation engines, data visualization, and smart analytics make individuals skills and competencies increasingly searchable, cultivating and preserving a strong personal brand will be considered basic professional hygiene over the next decade. In order for rewarding and challenging work to find them, people will need to maintain a favorable, professional reputation in ones network.
- 10. Be an extra miler but know the limitations A single extra miler an employee who frequently contributes beyond the scope of his or her rolecan drive team performance more than all the other members combined. an overlap of only about 50% between the top collaborative contributors in an organization and those employees deemed to be the top performers. 10 https://hbr.org/2016/01/collaborative- overload?utm_campaign=harvardbiz&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
- 11. Conclusion The evolving world of work will need newer skills To stay relevant in the future be ready to revisit your personal goals Every employee is a communicator and the role of internal communicators is to enable people to be their best selves Empathizers, context providers and trend recognizers are going to be valued in the future 11
- 12. Resources & Courses Look Up Sign Up Intraskope blog on internal communication www.iabc.com http://www.allthingsic.com http://www.cipd.co.uk https://simply- communicate.com www.apacd.com www.ickollectif.com Personal Branding -How to carve a niche and be your best Introduction to Internal Communication Starting Out In Your First Job? Make Sense of Work & Life How To Improve Your CSR Quotient Networking Begins With Giving 12
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