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Informing Choices Mini-Pod Steve Wells
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With exponential change driving an uncertain and complex future, considering how megatrends, trends, weak signals, and wild cards could impact life, society, and business is becoming crucial to developing insight to the future, but also to reinforcing our organisations’ agility and resilience. This is a podcast designed to provide insight to how we make sense of a radically different tomorrow by exploring "the future of" different topics. Podcast host Steve Wells talks to domain experts and futurists to explore the challenges and opportunities in a rapidly evolving future.
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Attention Disruption - Skim Culture and the Battle for Focus with Cat Barnard
Welcome to the latest episode of the Informing Choices
Mini-Pod, and another in our series exploring ten meta-trends impacting the future of work, in partnership with Working the Future [https://www.workingthefuture.com] to explore 10 meta-trends identified in their “Foresight Focus 2024” report [https://workingthefuture.com/foresight-focus-report].
In this episode, we will explore the current state of our
fragmented attention spans and consider how these challenges might evolve. What new distractions could emerge, and how will they continue to shape our workdays? We will then explore three major drivers behind this trend, then look forward into the future to consider the optimistic and pessimistic potential scenarios in 2030. And finally, we will discuss actionable steps that
organizations can take now that will inform the design of work environments and cultures that help employees maintain concentration and stay effective.
Cathryn Barnard, co-founding director at Working the Future, joins me in this episode. You can learn more about Cat and Working the Future’s work as follows:
By email at cathryn@workingthefuture.com
By phone +44(0)7788 718823 04 +44(0)7764 948444
Website https://www.workingthefuture.com
Cat on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrynbarnard
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The Reskilling Emergency – The Age of the Continuous Newbie with Cat Barnard
In this episode we're diving into the Reskilling Emergency – The Age of the Continuous Newbie. As technology rapidly automates tasks, the nature of jobs is changing, often leaving us feeling like we are always starting anew. We will first look at where we see successful examples of reskilling. Next, we will identify three major forces driving this urgent need for continuous learning; is it just technology, or are there other factors at play? Then, we will explore the potential futures of reskilling by 2030; looking at both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios. Finally, we will explore what
organizations can start doing today to prepare their teams for this new reality.
I am joined by co-founder of Working the Future, Cat Barnard to this, the seventh of our collaborative series of podcasts. You can learn more about Cat and Working the
Future’s work as follows:
By email at cathryn@workingthefuture.com
By phone +44(0)7788 718823 04 +44(0)7764 948444
Website https://www.workingthefuture.com
Cat on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrynbarnard
Learn about Working the Future’s “Foresight
Focus 2024” report here: https://workingthefuture.com/foresight-focus-report.
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Operating Frameworks Rebooted - Embracing Agility for Peak Performance with Cat Barnard
Welcome to the latest episode of the Informing Choices
Mini-Pod, and another in our series exploring ten meta-trends impacting the future of work, in partnership with Working the Future [https://www.workingthefuture.com].
In this episode, we’re diving into a meta-trend that is all
about shaking things up in the workplace: quot;Operating Frameworks Rebooted -
Embracing Agility for Peak Performance." We will explore how companies are switching gears to become
more agile, identify three major forces driving this shift towards agile frameworks, peer into the future and discuss an optimistic scenario where flexibility leads to breakthrough performances, and a pessimistic one where
things might not go as planned, and finally ask what should organizations be doing right now to ride this wave of change.
Cathryn Barnard, co-founding director at Working the Future, joins me in this episode. You can learn more about Cat and Working the Future’s work as follows:
By email at cathryn@workingthefuture.com or patrick@workingthefuture.com
By phone +44(0)7788 718823 or +44(0)7764 948444
Website https://www.workingthefuture.com
Cat on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrynbarnard
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Episode titles Working the Future
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Next-Generation Talent Ecosystems - An Era of On-Demand Working with Cat Barnard
Welcome to the latest episode of the Informing Choices Mini-Pod, and the fifth in our series looking at the critical trends impacting the future of work, in partnership with Working the Future (https://www.workingthefuture.com).
In this episode, we are exploring the rise of Next-Generation Talent Ecosystems and the surge of on-demand working, another meta-trend identified in Working the Future’s “Foresight Focus 2024” report (https://workingthefuture.com/foresight-focus-report).
First off, we address exactly what "Next-Generation
Talent Ecosystems" are. Then we will dive into three big drivers fuelling this trend and look ahead to two scenarios in 2030: one optimistic, where these ecosystems lead to greater freedom and fulfilment in work, and one pessimistic, where challenges and inequalities persist. Finally, we will consider what organisations can do right now to harness the power of these trends and prepare for the future.
Working the Future’s co-founding director Cathryn Banard
joins me on this episode. You can learn more about Cat and Working the Future’s work as follows:
By email at cathryn@workingthefuture.com
By phone +44(0)7788 718823 04 +44(0)7764 948444
Website https://www.workingthefuture.com
Cat on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrynbarnard
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Series titles: https://pixabay.com/photos/doors-choices-choose-decision-1690423
Episode titles: Working the Future
Other images: OpenAI DALL-E
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Shifting Attitudes Towards Work – What Modern Workers Want with Cat Barnard
Welcome to the latest episode of the Informing Choices
Mini-Pod, where in partnership with Working the Future (https://www.workingthefuture.com), we are exploring Shifting Attitudes Towards Work – one of the 10 meta-trends impacting the future of work identified in Working the Future’s Foresight Focus 2024 report (https://workingthefuture.com/foresight-focus-report).
We are unpacking evidence of shifts in attitudes to work and what employees want from their jobs and then exploring three big drivers behind this meta-trend and how they interact to reshape views on work. Then, we will look ahead to 2030 and consider optimistic and pessimistic scenarios. Finally, we will consider what organisations can do right now with these insights; the moves should they be making to stay ahead and make the most of these shifts.
Once again, Working the Future co-founder Cathryn Barnard is joining me on the podcast. You can learn more about Cat and Working the Future’s work as follows:
By email at cathryn@workingthefuture.com or Patrick@workingthefuture.com
By phone +44(0)7788 718823 04 +44(0)7764 948444
Website https://www.workingthefuture.com
Cat on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrynbarnard
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The Fragmentation of Global Systems with Cat Barnard
Welcome to the latest episode of the Informing Choices
Mini-Pod, and the third in our series looking at the critical trends impacting the future of work, in partnership with Working the Future [https://www.workingthefuture.com].
Today we are venturing into the complex world of Globalisation and Geopolitics - The Fragmentation of Global Systems, one of 10 meta-trends identified in Working the Future’s Foresight Focus 2024 report [https://workingthefuture.com/foresight-focus-report] on which this series of podcast episodes are based.
First off, we will break down what we really mean by the
Fragmentation of Global Systems. Next, we are identifying the three big drivers powering this trend, then look to the future by exploring what world could look like by 2030, and also consider optimistic scenarios where
fragmentation leads to innovation and resilience, and the pessimistic ones where it might lead to conflict and isolation. Finally, we will wrap up with some ideas organisations can take today to navigate these choppy waters.
With me in this episode is Working the Future co-founder Cat Barnard. You can learn more about Cat and Working the Future’s work as follows:
By email at cathryn@workingthefuture.com or Patrick@workingthefuture.com
By phone +44(0)7788 718823 04 +44(0)7764 948444
Website https://www.workingthefuture.com
Cat on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathrynbarnard
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