PERSPECTIVE
SKILLS IN 2025
2025
Lovely Kumar
Director Larks Learning
and Co-Founder Women Lead
is 7 years in the
future and given
the dizzying pace
of change, the skills that I outline may
well be obsolete by then. However,
looking forward, in my view the top
skills required in 2025 will be people
savviness, learning agility, digital mind-
set, adeptness ability to be centred,
creativity and possessing a lot of critical
thinking.
To be future ready we need to work
on the building blocks of these skills.
Mindfulness is a practice that we
need to incorporate in our daily routine.
It would aid in our ability to maintain
focus, be centred, think creatively and
critically and thus augment productivity
and well-being.
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We also need to expose ourselves to
varied experiences to increase creativity
and learning agility. This would mean
both learning to use different means as
well as connecting with people of diverse
backgrounds. Travel is always a great way
of exposure.
It is also recommended to kee p
abreast of how technology is evolving and
continuously learn and use new technology.
A key area would be on how to use artifi cial
intelligence to augment productivity.
And in all this focus on technology
do not forget that ‘humanics’ is more
important than robotics. Being people
savvy, the ability to understand people
and work collaboratively across diverse
cultures are key skills we can’t overlook.
P & M