The Future of Soft Skills in a Digital Age

The World Economic Forum published several reports over the last few years documenting the future of work. Many of them shared with us the promising reality of the role humans will play in the age of automation. Many of these roles involve tapping into the most human aspects of ourselves and maintaining our role in the workforce.

It is quite ironic that our creativity is the very thing that is supporting the advancement of technology which many warn will replace many of us at work. Excitedly, there is another way to look at this unknown future. If we are creative enough to create something, then we are also creative enough to create anything. There is no replacement (to date) for human creativity and ingenuity, so bolstering this skill is an essential way to guarantee your future at work.

Although schools can't measure critical thinking, it is one of the most important skills you can develop. Critical thinking is the skill that ties all of the hard skills together and make them work for you. The activities below support you utilizing your critical thinking skills in order to work smarter, not harder.

Have you ever paused to think that we don't just need emotional intelligence for working with each other, but we will also need it for interacting with AI? It is important for us to realize the critical needs of the changing workplace, and be prepared to adapt with ease.

Flexibility is an essential work skill which allows all of the other soft skills to operate. Cognitive flexibility is the combination of intelligence, reasoning and comprehension to allow for more fluid interactions and operations within the workplace. The activities below will help you become a cognitively flexible leader, ready to transform the workplace.