The Stuff That Robots Can’t Do Is the Future of Work

Gerd Leonhard is a very interesting futurist. I had the good fortune to come across an article of his called 2017: Goodbye To the Age of Replication, Welcome Back to Originality: Productivity… Is for Robots. Leonhard says that the future of human work is doing stuff that robots cannot do, which to Leonhard, means creating things. The […]

What is the HR Skill Set of the Future?

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The bulk of this blog post was originally published at my blog site, but I thought it was an important piece and wanted to repeat it here. Originally I had come across an article directed at the Chief Information Officers, in other words the IT leader, which talked about the skill sets the CIO of the future […]

Are You Ready for a Chatbot HR Assistant?

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“Alexa, answer this employee’s question.” A few years ago none of you would have any idea what that sentence was referring to, but today almost all of you will recognize “who” Alexa is. Many of us have, or have seen someone use, Alexa, the chatbot from Amazon. With the explosion of artificial intelligence applications, the […]

The Future of Training Is Competencies, Not Skills

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The speed of change has many companies flustered and HR and training professionals wondering what needs to be done in order to keep up with changing technology. They are asking the question “How do you teach the skills of the future, when the skills of today are obsolete tomorrow?” The Answer Is… According to German […]

“Agile HR” Means Looking Ahead

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“Agile: Able to move quickly and easily: Ruth was as agile as a monkey.” One of the major workplace trends mentioned in the Sodexo report on workplace trends is “The Agile Organization.” As I was reading this I thought to myself “What does that really mean?” What does it mean to be an agile organization, […]