Tom Cheesewright speaking at ACS Cobham’s Future-Ready Forum


SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE His presentation also revealed the three different skill sets to drive big change in the future.


1. The first is the ability to curate, discover and qualify information. Where are the gaps in your knowledge and how do you fill them? What are the gaps your company has about markets and competitors? How do we find that information and how do we put it to good use?


2. The second is creativity. You have to be creative. Creativity is a muscle, a skill we can all learn. It is a set of practices. Learn to make things, to test things, to fail, to remix and recombine, take two old things and mash them together to make something great again. And learn to craft.


3. The third is communication. You’ve got to be able to sell your ideas. Sell yourself, sell your organisation to customers, partners and employers and get comfortable with it. It is a skill you can learn, practice and develop. In some ways, you have


got to get yourself across and maximise that humanity and show people that you are real.


Summarising, Tom Cheesewright explained to his audience


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aspirational students, parents, educators and employers who care that these are the skills you need to succeed in the future. “Yes, you need academic qualifications, but most of all you need to demonstrate that you can do those three things. Really smart employers are already looking for these in different ways. “Has this person got the ability


to do these things, to be a self- starter, to interact with the rest of the company, to fit our culture? You have to go beyond the academic in order to build those things, which is why I like the fact we have students here learning practical skills operating in our adult environment.” He ended on an optimistic


rallying call, which looped back to his Intersection Tool. “The future is not defined by trends. It is not defined by pressures. It is defined by what you do about them. Whether they are positive or negative for you.”


TOM CHEESEWRIGHT’S INTERSECTION TOOL FOR FUTURE-FOCUS


TRENDS The possibility of change:


• new ideas • products • technologies • fashions • processes


PRESSURES Pent-up demand for change:


• painful • wrong • limiting • growth • productivity • profit


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