Fit through Proper Skills and Lifelong Learning

00:07 We finally get to my favourite topic: lifetime learning and future skills.

00:12 The fundamental question is, which expertise will I require in the future? However, we do not know which abilities will be required in 5, 10, or 15 years.

00:23 We can only speculate, and to gain a clearer sense of what we need, I'd want to divide the abilities into two categories: digital skills and non-digital skills.

00:43 Now, here's a brief summary of what I believe will be extremely important in digital education. In terms of digital schooling, I would recommend that you Google the word. However, I would also suggest that you are likely to know someone in your network of friends or work colleagues who will not find such items so easily.

01:08 It takes time to learn how to use Google.

01:10 Some people do this all day and are very good at it.

01:13 Others only use the search engine, or any other website, once a week and struggle with it. Smartphones have the same tendencies.

01:23 How do I use a smartphone in a natural, easy way, or is it more difficult for me? How do I interact with Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and the other voice assistants? Is this normal, or is it characterized by a specific distance? Can I communicate with a chatbot? Or are my inquiries so convoluted and oddly phrased that no chatbot on the planet will even attempt to understand what I want from them? This is something we must learn and deal with.

01:58 All of these subjects are on the agenda, including human-machine interaction.

02:04 Furthermore, we must address the issue of security.

02:08 If your password is "password" or "123456," you're in trouble.

02:16 We need to be aware of the hazards that exist on the internet and in the digital world. We need to raise awareness about data security and data handling, as well as privacy, and all of these things are vital.

02:34 Finally, I'd like to include our friend Humboldt and his Humboldtian principle.

02:42 We require contemplation on the instruments we employ.

02:45 What exactly are we doing? Are we doubting these things? Do all of the good, innovative technologies that help us and our business advance have any drawbacks? What does it signify if I bring Alexa inside my house? Is she paying attention to everything? I'm not sure. Questioning is something we should do more of.

03:06 We need education through digital things in addition to digital education, which is education about digital things.

03:14 We're discussing digital learning, or how I'll study in the future.

03:18 Will I only be doing this online? Will I combine online and offline? Where will I locate the information? What are my sources of information? Not everything you read on the internet is true.

03:31 Can we tell the difference between fake and real, even when it appears to be true on social media? This appears to be a simpler task than it is.

03:42 This is supplemented by digital interaction, which refers to how I interact with others.

03:49 What is already a significant difficulty offline will undoubtedly be difficult in the digital age. How do you carry yourself during a webinar? How do you approach the webinar host? How do you navigate a virtual meeting room? Is there some sort of online guidance for the proper method to communicate, or has this not yet been done? Do you even comprehend everyone, and do they understand you, or are you saying things and behaving in this room while everyone else is just shaking their heads inwardly? These are things we must learn.

04:30 In addition to digital talents, we need classic skills, which we may have always required, but may need much more tomorrow.

04:40 We knew that we should all study English fifty years ago.

04:45 This will continue to be true for the next 50 years.

04:48 This will never go out of style.

04:51 However, in a changing world, in a digital environment, perhaps we need something like flexibility and speed - that would be such a skill.

05:03 Can I keep up with the pace that is expected of me? Can I change it? What will happen if new software is released? Am I willing to try new things? These are the issues covered in the section on flexibility and speed.

05:21 And as the world becomes faster and more flexible, as there is more and more change, this will have an impact on my attitude, therefore we need robustness; we need something like resilience, a digital resilience.

05:35 How can I manage with more projects, more change, more structuring, more insecurity, and more stress? You must learn this because in a new world that is always reinventing itself and getting increasingly complex, you must tackle precisely these kinds of difficulties, complex challenges.

05:57 It is impossible to conceive in a one-dimensional, linear fashion in a complicated world.

06:03 Something fresh is required here.

06:06 Solving difficulties when we don't even know what the problems are is novel.

06:11 Thinking critically, perhaps letting go of old patterns of thinking, is something else we must learn. There are continually new types of organizations in this new world, such as the agile method, and in this new form of organization, we must make decisions and accept responsibility.

06:31 Are we truly accepting responsibility? If so, how much, and how much do we need? This was not required in the old world, the hierarchical world; we must learn it from the ground up. When we discuss artificial intelligence and how it will utterly alter the working world, I would say yes, but there are three abilities that an AI will not be able to acquire any time soon.

06:59 Yes, empathy, intuition, interpersonal interactions, and creativity are all important. Creativity is something that we require more and more in today's complex environment. We used to be incredibly good at this as kids, and then we went to school and they told us, "This is the task." This duty must be completed in this manner; repeat this," and that is what we were prepared for, a working world that was effective for years but is now gone.

07:31 And now we must reclaim the creativity that has been stifled by school, job training, and university. We need to reclaim it; we need to return to being children, to our four-year-old selves.

07:44 Being innovative, in my opinion, is the skill of the future in a world where we don't have a single solution.

07:55 How does creativity emerge? I believe that breaking rules is necessary if you want to be creative.

08:02 Following the rules will prevent you from being innovative.

08:06 Then others will question, "Frank, how can I be creative?" No, not me; this isn't about me. Those days are past for me, me, me.

08:18 It's all about "we." We shall communicate much more frequently.

08:23 We will reorganize, whether digitally or physically.

08:26 There will be a lot more movement and interchange.

08:29 That takes time, and we will get it because in this world that cannot be described or understood, we need individuals, and they are the ones who create the magic.

08:42 And it makes no difference if you work in B2B or B2C; it's all about PTP.

08:49 From person to person, from human to human.

08:52 Humans occupy center stage in the new economy, which necessitates innovation.

08:59 Learning takes center stage with the human aspect, and the fundamental question is, how do we learn? Do all employees have more independence, or does the pace be set by the companies? And how am I supposed to navigate this maze of more training? There are seminars and offline workshops.

09:19 There are coaching available.

09:21 All of this, though, is also available digitally.

09:23 There are also YouTube, online classes, podcasts, blogs, books, and a plethora of other resources.

09:31 What is the best medium for my employees, my company, my department, and our managers? That is what we need to find out.

09:41 At the same time, businesses can consider how they can establish framework conditions in which learning occurs in a fundamentally different way.

09:50 Is it possible to find innovation labs? Is there a community for each topic? Do we additionally interact with other businesses, organizations, networks, and so on? So we can see that a lot is going on here.

10:08 I expect that learning will become an important part of our work.

10:14 During your working hours, you will be studying.

10:18 It remains to be seen if it is 10%, 20%, or even 50%.