GLOBAL MOBILITY MARKET EMBRACES
CHANGE AND TECHNOLOGY
T
he Worldwide ERC®’s Global Workforce Symposium in Seattle saw nearly 2000 international delegates
exploring global mobility hot topics and future workforce requirements across the globe. Delegates were treated to a lively
opening keynote from Seth Mattison, an internationally renowned author and expert on game-changing workforce trends and business performance. As Founder and Chief Movement Officer of Luminate Labs, Mr Mattison helps leading brands to navigate the future of work. He shared his insights on the power of the ‘Future-Maker’ – someone who is responsible for creating the future and inspiring others to do the same. He made a passionate plea for global
mobility specialists to step into larger more strategic and expanded roles to create the future. With so much hinging on flawless execution in the mobility sphere – he argued you can do both. His conviction that personal deep knowledge is required across any industry sector in today’s highly competitive world aligns with Relocate’s determination to tell the stories leading to change across business from oil and gas to
the car industry, from pharmaceuticals to the creative industries. Mr Mattison went on to describe the
two the dynamic forces of hierarchies and networks battling it out to define our future. He reflected that we are entering a period of time that will be known as the age of the networks – from the digitalisation of almost everything to networked resources and people. In the networked world anyone can contribute, gatekeepers are removed leading to a dynamic shift of power. The youth of today is revealing the future
and it is not surprising that managers today don’t know if they should be excited or afraid. “The leader no longer sits at the top of the chart, she sits at the centre of the network,” he said. In qualifying this, he cited Deloitte’s
2018 Global Human Capital Trends: The rise of the social enterprise report which revealed a profound shift in the mindset of organisations and the role they are expected to play within wider society. ‘Engagement with other stakeholders on topics such as diversity, gender pay equity, income inequality, immigration and climate change
Worldwide ERC® Global
Workforce Symposium in Seattle revealed the importance of global mobility in supporting talent and business growth across the globe.
Fiona Murchie was there.
can lift financial performance and brand value, while failure to engage can destroy reputation and alienate key audiences’, the report reveals. Mr Mattison went on to describe the
increasing need to break down hierarchies and build more team-based organisations. According to him, this requires five shifts:
• Technology shift •
• Experience shift • •
Process shift Skills shift
Inner shift He believes that the transformation
happens in the ‘inner shift’ where deep knowledge lies and he urged the audience to connect with something larger than themselves in order to become a ‘Future- Maker’.
Disrupters and change agents President and CEO of Worldwide ERC®, Peggy Smith built on the themes of the keynote and teased out the future of global mobility with an expert panel featuring some of global mobility’s very own future-makers.
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