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Continuing the theme of looking forward and creating new, better “normals” …

This report (https://lnkd.in/gWWYHgW) lists the top 10 essential skills for 2025 according to World Economic Forum. The report also notes that some skills will take “only” 1-2 months (e.g., 30-60 days) of work in online training to attain some level of mastery.

You can work on these now to stay ahead of the market!

The “catch” is that to really become proficient, the skills must be applied with feedback to improve and make lasting new behavior, not just be “trained.”

Traditional training just doesn’t work for real behavior change … here’s a summary of why: https://www.mikerussell.com/2017/01/16/what-everyone-ought-to-know-about-training/

How well do your training and development programs provide real behavior change for the future?

In a prior post I urged you to create a new “normal” instead of waiting for the old “normal.” The article includes 6 starter questions and 16 assessment factors to help you identify opportunities.

In this post, I’ll give you a personal business example following the advice.

One of our flagship people development programs produces positive ROI, unlike traditional training. Due to most clients’ technology capabilities, we needed to deliver either with everyone remote or everyone in person in the same place. Clients historically chose in person, which drove program structure and timing.

The pandemic moved many to remote work. That allowed the program to be all remote or a hybrid. And that in turn allowed us to make changes that dramatically improve learning – and positive behavior change – in less time.

Could we have waited until things returned to normal? Yes. We chose instead to invest (major program changes cost time and $) in the improvement … and we are delighted with the result.

In this case, the pandemic broke the “remote” ice and enabled a change for the better.

What have you been wishing you could change for the better?

 

In case you missed it, here is the link to the original post with the 6 starter questions and 16 assessment factors:

https://www.mikerussell.com/2020/04/21/innovate-forward-instead-of-reverting-backward/

Still waiting (or hoping) to get back to “normal”? Innovate forward instead of reverting backward!

Don’t let the pandemic, social upheavals, elections, etc. derail you … leverage the momentum of change with these 6 starter questions and 16 assessment factors – relevant in any crisis – to help you identify top opportunities:

https://www.mikerussell.com/2020/04/21/innovate-forward-instead-of-reverting-backward/

That’s a paraphrase of Joseph Epstein’s 2016 Wall Street Journal commentary “These Five Are the Best We Can Do?” lamenting the U.S. presidential candidate slate. Some feel the question can be applied to this election.

Regardless of the election, here’s the question for you: Is your business succession slate any better off?

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