Workshop:  Planning for an Unpredictable Future:  How to Respond to a World of Constant Change — Staff Support

• Overview:

Institutions and their leaders and employees need to make decisions that affect their clients/customers, and consequently the institution’s survival, in a world of constant change.  Participants will understand what factors affect their clients that create the trends which affect the institution. They will understand which of those factors are stable, and which factors are not.  Participants will understand which factors they can control, and which factors they can't control. This understanding will allow them to make effective decisions in a world of uncertainty and constant change.

• Learning Outcomes:

Participants Will Be Able To:

•  Participants will understand:

  • That the world is in a constant state of rapid change.

  • These changes will directly impact their clients/customers

  • How changes in client/customer behavior affect their institution

  • How those changes affect labor market changes and consequently their institution's success.

  • Which of those factors are stable and which are not stable.

  • Which of those factors should be the foundation of their education and career choices.

  • How they can cope and respond to a world of constant change.

  • What they can control in a changing world, and what they cannot control.

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Downloads:

  • General

    • PowerPoint file

    • Workshop Handout

• Related Video Links:

• ​The Internet in 1981

• Did You Know? (Shift Happens)

• Technology is replacing jobs. Are you ready? (Slope of the Curve)

• Related Video Clips:

• Rapidly Changing World

  1. Trends Come and Go

• Movie: "The Internship"

• Movie:  "Sully"

• Metaphorical Images:

• Wavy and Warped Road - Foundation under the road is warping at a rapid pace, making the road unusable (career pathways in rapidly-changing world)

• Image: Metaphor- 'Refusing to cooperate with a world that is changing around you.'

  1. Picture: An elderly couple in China refuses to move out of their home so a highway can be built. Credit: ​http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/asia/gallery/china-nail-houses/index.html. Accessed 5/24/15

     Articles:

  • Teach A Man To Fish: Training vs. Education 

  • "Are We Educating Students for a Future That Doesn't Exist?"

  • "Humans are Underrated"

  • "Everything You Need to Know About the ‘Gig Economy" (How Uber, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, etc. are redefining jobs)

  • "5 Ways to Navigate Change in Turbulent Times"

  • "Our everyday habits are changing the workforce"

  • "Leadership Lessons From Sully" (Responding to the Unexpected)

  • "The Future Of Work: It's Already Here -- And Not As Scary As You Think"

  • "Why Trump — or any other politician — can't do much to bring back manual labor jobs

  • "This White Male Can't Get Hired. What Should He Do Now?"

  • "The Workforce’s Billion Dollar Problem: Unskilled Workers"

  • "Ubertrends. The Forces That Will Govern Our Lives & Future"

  • Bridging the Skills Gap with Workforce Development Strategies

  2. Websites & Databases​

  • Search "Labor Market Trends"

  • Dimensions of Cultural Differences

  • "Diffusion of Innovation Theory" (People adopt new ideas at different rates)

  • New World of Work

  • Institute for the Future

  • Working Nation

  • Jobs for the Future

  • Robot-Proof Jobs

• Related Handouts:

• Decision-Making Variables

• Reaching Career Goals

• Opportunity vs. Security

• Generalist vs. Specialist

• Life-Long Learning Options

• Rapidly-Changing World

• Generational Values

• Hidden Rules

• Organizational Cultural Fit

• Happenstance

• Setting Effective Goals

• So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?

• Locus of Control

• Boundaries

• Paradigm Shifts

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