2030 FUTURE SKILLS FOR LEADERS AND MANAGERS | HRM TECHFEST CONNECT ASIA 2020 (ASIA'S LARGEST VIRTUAL HR CONFERENCE - OVER 4,000 ATTENDEES)

In the age of robotics, what do we need humans to do? What skills and attributes should we look for in new managers and leaders, be they full-time, part-time, or gig? Given an existing corporate workforce, how can you help them develop, so the organization can survive and thrive? This talk presents a new framework of business leadership and management skills, based on an exhaustive review of recommendations for 2030 from the World Economic Forum and other sources. A new vision of corporate-educator partnership is presented, enabled by new design, new technologies, and a radical new business model. This 15-minute presentation is followed by Q&A.

DR. CJ MEADOWS

Think Tank Chair, DBA Harvard Business School

Technologist, Designer, Business Strategist, Innovation & Design Thinking Expert

DR. TAL BEN-SHAHAR

Founder, Happiness Studies Academy, using advanced technologies and the Science of Happiness to develop organizational and community leaders. Best-selling author who taught Harvard’s most popular course — on Happiness

MICRO-CREDENTIALING, MOBILE- & MICRO-LEARNING

Instead of leaving work & life to get an education, why not integrate life, learning, and work on-the-go? With a micro-credentialing approach, what you want (or need) to learn can be certified on its own. Additional learning can be suggested by your Watson coach, with special attention to microcredentials that combine to form a macrocredential — a personalized degree. With a micro-learning approach — bite-sized learning you can absorb every day — you can integrate life and learning and join an online/offline community of learners. We’ve already uploaded a new non-degree micro-course based on our recent management research on Lateral Innovation at our favorite mobile-micro-learning platform: Gnowbe.

PSYCHO-NEURO ADMISSIONS/CAREER COUNSELING

Wouldn’t it be great if you could know how your brain is “wired” and whether you’re wired to be successful in one career or another? Actually, you can, and with a host of psycho-neuro and other types of tests, we can help you understand yourself like never before, shaving years of experimentation off of your career, targeting from the start various types of work you’re already designed to do.

BIOMETRIC WORKSHOPS

Authenticity, emotional intelligence, and connectedness with others are essential to your effectiveness as a leader and a human worker. Wouldn’t it be great to map your state of being with what you’re doing and how effective you are in the moment? With biometric tracking and feedback, you can see your state of being, adjust, track again, and analyze your synchrony with others — real-time and near-real-time feedback for effective self-development.

AUGMENTED-REALITY TEACHING & MIXED-REALITY LEARNING

It isn’t always possible to remember the name and detailed development history of hundreds of students. However, when a teachable moment occurs with someone in front of you, wouldn’t it be great to have your own coach telling you who they are and what they need? The expert teacher can take it from there, with a little help. On the learner’s side, wouldn’t it be great when touring a business or cultural-heritage site to have an electronic coach update you with key information so you can ask questions while an expert is at-hand? Or show you the way things used to be or will be when a project is finished, so you can probe further for issues and possibilities?

Here’s something already in use at our parent organization, S P Jain School of Global Management — Engaged Learning Online, whereby students around the world gather in a virtual classroom. We also have ELC’s (Engaged Learning Classrooms), where students enter without their distracting laptops & phones and instead use tablets installed at each seat to take cloud-stored notes, engage in virtual team breakouts, take polls, give feedback, ask questions anonymously, record bits of lecture they “zoned out” or want to review later (e.g. special instructions), and more.

DR CJ MEADOWS

edTech tinkerer, human-centered designer, & business model igniter

DEBASHIS GUHA

Founder & Managing Partner, Big Sky Quantitative Research, applying machine learning to business & economics