Do the following until your worst fears are confirmed: Test your market value All good: Go to 5. Trouble ahead: Go to 2. Guess what the market wants Do you think the market needs you, a better you, or a different you? Test your hypothesis Spot on: Go to 4. Whoops: Go to 2. Acquire […]
Choosing a career used to be very straightforward. It might have involved a cursory chat with a career advisor or a lecture from your parents. You then slid into the appropriate ‘career cannon’, lit the fuse, and ‘followed’ the career trajectory, as governed by the chosen cannon. By using the cannon analogy, I am trying […]
The convergence of the following is worth considering: Higher education is becoming more costly. The time to financial return on a 3 year degree is going to be at least half a decade or much more from starting the course. In the knowledge economy, learning becoming more of a daily tablet than a once in […]
I recently facilitated a forum entitled the Skills for the New Industrial Revolution as part of the European Commission’s Mission Growth conference in Brussels. I was fortunate to have senior representatives from industry, government and academe along with a sample of Europe’s future workforce. It is already apparent that the compassionate European skills agenda in […]
Most sales people know that the value they deliver is proportional to the perceived benefits. In most cases a bigger price has a value dampening effect. But most importantly, the greater the perceived emotional cost the less associated value the customer will perceive. To be a successful worker in the industrial economy, you need to […]
The day of the multi-day residential learning experience has come to an end from a mainstream education perspective. The market increasingly has a role to play in this as does the worker. The market is putting pressure on costs so anything that involves accommodation and travel will be unattractive. Also the opportunity cost of being […]
‘The e-Skills Manifesto: A Call to Arms’ was launched on the 30th June 2010 at the European Business Summit in Brussels. It has contributions from a number of high profile people in politics, industry, academe and beyond. Coincidentally a Gala dinner was held that evening and was attended by the Crown Prince of Belgium and […]