Future Skills for a demanding workplace – A way of iSource beginnings

With the global market experiencing enormous change, upskilling and reskilling have taken on a transformed sense of urgency. Success through these transitions requires major shifts in thinking about how hiring and employee development are done. The pandemic has changed how and where we work from and iSource redefines the process of ‘New Workplace’. It has escorted in significant transformation in the workplace and its culture and has made organisations embrace newer ways of working through the adoption of skills and technologies to achieve essence of the business.

Evaluating employees and new hires based on their skill sets instead of their work history can help level the playing field — and help companies realize the talent they already have. It also makes talent pools more diverse and often makes hiring more effective.

iSource brings in and adopts the process of upskilling and reskilling as an indicator of productive and engaged workforce. This ‘Progressive’ policy is the future of hiring and development. The new workplace is also witnessing accelerated implementation of some workforce trends which were being talked about as a distant picture of the workplace of the future before the pandemic. That future seems to have arrived today and here is what we are perhaps gearing up for iSource:

Curiosity

This is where; unquenchable curiosity will rule the day. The more you connect the dots, the more you have thirst for various topics. iSource creates an environment for the employees towards openness and desire to learn. This Skill is not quite normal since it need broad interest in a wide variety of themes, topics and subjects from all that knowledge.

Optimism and Imagination

Moving forward, iSource has the ability to believe in a positive future and focus on possibilities. The skills of being able to envision and foresee what might happen are critical to staying motivated, inspired and driven to create new beginnings.

Resilience - Skills, not Degrees

Closely related to skill enhancement is resilient. Embracing shifts and bouncing forward (rather than back) iSource starts with new competencies. The skill of resilience requires you to 1) stay aware of new information 2) make sense of it 3) reinvent, innovate and solve problems. Finding fresh approaches and flexing based on your insights will be fundamental to success.

Empathy

Another interesting key skillset for the future of all organizations will be empathy towards humanity. Tuning into the uneven needs of the market and deeply understanding and empathizing with user needs are fuel for invention. The skills involves thoroughly understanding circumstances and the challenges they generate, allowing you to see new opportunities. From there, it’s about taking appropriate risk and delivering new value to the market. These will be critical in paving your path to the future.

Social Relationships

The brand new skill will be the ability to build affinity—and to build it quickly and it from a distance. Because feature of the future will include speed and ambiguity, we won’t have the luxury to create relationships slowly over multiple dinners or water cooler discussions. Besides work-related skills in areas of cognitive ability (creativity, critical thinking, complex problem solving), iSource creates a competence in social skills like emotional intelligence, through building connections in brief moments and sometimes virtually. The skill of establishing trust, companionship and affinities with others will separate those who succeed from those who don’t. Success has always been about your network, but achievement in the future will depend even more on the strength of relationships. Your various levels of social media relationships will be critical netting to offer new learning, access to new opportunities and social support.

To sum up, “The future will not belong to the skeptics who believe in unessential things.” The skill of the future will require smart action—the ability to make things happen, and these are the smart ways iSource assemble support, invest time and expend effort. As Sivakumar Sadayappan, CEO says “Run toward the fire.” In addition, iSource appreciates people who jump in to the ring, engage and entertain – join in and get things done.  

Your turn: As a employee, what is that you take ownership of your company?

Published by

Hemalatha DoDurai, MBA, PhD

How you build your company as a successful brand is up to you. Here are some things to keep in mind when upskilling and reskilling. Remember every employee is an asset and they bring prospective customers to your organization.