Fellow CAWWer Catherine Shinners has a good review of recent thinking on what organizations need for breakthrough performance via the Conference Executive Board: read her article for some detail. I will suffice here with listing the CEB checklist of differentiating competencies for high performance:

• prioritization,
• teamwork,
• organizational awareness,
• problem solving,
• self-awareness,
• proactivity,
• influence,
• decision-making,
• learning agility and
• technical expertise.

I like! All of these are in reach of all of us. Attitude, and forward momentum is all that is required to get us on this road…

Shinners also shared a Future Work Skills 2020 study that sees successful trends to be:

• sense-making,
• social intelligence,
• novel and adaptive thinking,
• cross-cultural competency,
• computational thinking,
• transdisciplinarity,
• design mindset,
• cognitive load management and
• virtual collaboration.

OK, so here we are in a more rarefied environment, not because these are difficult per se, but because these are change agent attributes, and not everyone wants to change.

Do you?

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