As a tech industry worker, you know that software and hardware evolve at an unflagging rate. Many of the tools you used when you started out in the industry may have lost favour. Whether it’s new programming languages or Java frameworks, companies need employees who can adapt to the latest technological developments.
Never before has it become important to be adaptable as a way to withstand the barrage of change coming at us. It is no longer IQ or EQ but AQ (Adaptability Quotient) that is increasingly important for all of us. We know the world is speeding up. The rate of technological change is accelerating. The challenge we are facing is not just a technological but very much one of societal change. This puts us in a predicament as a society. Some of us are stuck in the past. As we are in this transitional phase everybody feels anxious because we don’t know what’s coming, we don’t know if the future will be familiar.

The talk is designed to help professionals with a basic blueprint for obtaining agility and becoming adaptable through this transition. Chris will take you through principles on how organizations can boost and build adaptive capacity while the same time arm individuals with the tools to smoothly transition into this new world. Those that thrive are quick to read and act on signals of change.

Areas the talk will cover include:
Individual Transition: Making sense of this new world and adapting accordingly
o World Shift: Understand How the World is Changing
o Mindset shift: Think Clearly About the Future
o Skills Shift: Act Effectively to Achieve Success