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Last July, I saw a presentation by Dr. Tracey WilenDaugenti on The Future of Work. In her skills
forecast for 2020, Dr. Wilen-Daugenti defined the
following ten work skills that will become essential
within the next 5 years:
1.
Sense making
2.
Social intelligence
3.
Novel and adaptive thinking
4.
Cross-cultural competency
5.
Computational thinking
6.
New media literacy
7.
Trans-disciplinary
8.
Design mindset
9.
Cognitive load management
10. Virtual collaboration.
We will look at these concepts in more detail in
future columns. I take comfort in Teri’s and Nancy’s
assurance that some of these “new” jobs are simply
new names for what we have been doing all along.
I also take comfort in that our profession is not being singled out for change – it is happening in all
sectors and globally. So we’re all in this together!
As one lawyer friend said, “the only job security
is between your ears” and I think that’s truer now
more than ever. We must all be resilient in the face
of these coming changes.
-Stacey Hunt
“As one lawyer said,
‘the only job security
is
between your
ears.’ I think that’s
truer now
more
than ever.”
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