Forever Skills by Flanagan, Kieran -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Three Spheres of Change

The Three Spheres of Change™ Future fears Embracing new opportunities Re-thinking education and training The three key areas of Forever Skills

Part 1 Creativity Skills

2 Insight

The lure of data 1 Learn to read the signs and look for patterns 2 Be aware of biases 3 Sit on the other side of the argument 4 Seek to understand (not just analyse) 5 Make meaning from the information you have gathered

3 Conversion

1 Look for the big themes 2 Transfer, mix and macro 3 Be broadly interested and prodigiously curious 4 Generate unexpected collisions 5 Learn to repurpose like a child

4 Problem solving

1 Learn to love problems 2 Think in questions, not statements 3 Look for answers, not the answer 4 Do the work (creativity is a numbers game) 5 Fail well

5 Agility

1 Think of resilience as mental agility 2 Imagine an alternative framework or universe 3 Push beyond ‘The Obvious Barrier’ 4 Challenge your own assumptions 5 Develop multiple senses of awareness

Part 2 Communication Skills

6 Influence

1 Know what you’re really ‘selling’ 2 Align your value with their values 3 Demonstrate who you help them to be 4 Develop your emotional intelligence 5 Share your ideas, values and instructions through stories

7 Team building

1 Create a culture worth belonging to 2 Break down the silos 3 Diversify your team (and your inputs) 4 Build a ‘complete’ network 5 Connect them to each other (not just to you)

8 Trust

1 Develop some thought leadership 2 Nurture your community 3 Tell the truth with vulnerability 4 Practise ‘story-doing’ 5 Make your ideas ‘pass-on-able’

9 Translation

1 Simplify the complex 2 Curate the information that matters 3 Use the appropriate language 4 Think in terms of education not information distribution 5 Make your ideas accessible, achievable and actionable

Part 3 Control Skills

10 Self-control

1 Develop your self-awareness 2 Understand that your emotions are feedback (and not always accurate) 3 Choose your mindset consciously 4 Control your focus 5 Control the controllable

11 Resource management

2 Place value on intangibles 3 Create value through a useful frame of reference 4 Don’t just manage quantity, measure quality too 5 Choose your timing … wisely 6 Assume a healthy margin of error

12 Order

1 Establish a sense of certainty 2 Strive for absolute clarity 3 Hold yourself and others accountable 4 Establish social order and convention 5 Be values focused

13 Implementation

2 Build engagement by starting and finishing 3 Hack your nature 4 Develop commercial acumen (then back yourself) 5 Detach from the outcome

Conclusion Appendix A Looking back to look forward

It all began quite a long time ago … in the Ancient World Recent(ish) History The four industrial revolutions Gender and geographic differences and similarities

Appendix B Today’s workplace trends

Current trends and future focus

Appendix C Ten years of work and research

Quant, qual and questions Language matters … a lot Skills vs traits vs roles vs values Macro trends and industry insights

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