Which skills will be decisive in the future to bring about change?

Change is the new constant - be it in the areas of digitization, sustainability, or new ways of working. It needs people in the company who develop specific projects, convince others and implement them successfully in the organization. For us, these are New Leaders. They take responsibility and lead, also independently of formal hierarchies.

In order to do this, you need the so-called “4C” – Future Skills:

1. Critical Thinking
2. Creativity
3. Collaboration
4. Communication

These Future Skills can be broken down and trained using tangible, practical exercises. Essentially it is about:

1. Critical thinking: Understand facts thoroughly

We live in a time of information overload. Creating something new is no longer just the task of humans because artificial intelligence can create texts and other content. Therefore it is more important than ever to grasp and understand topics thoroughly and independently.

• Understand backgrounds: identify and analyze root causes and motivations
• Identify alternatives: recognize and evaluate other options
• Formulate Hypothesis: assume and work with the most likely scenario

2. Creativity: Develop ideas

A good idea for your project is worth a lot but is by no means everything! Improve your ability to generate, evaluate and improve ideas!

• Generate ideas: generate many new and good ideas.
• Evaluate ideas: be able to choose the best options.
• Improve ideas: develop good ideas further.

3. Collaboration: Work effectively together

You are strong alone but so much stronger together! Using the potential of everyone and bringing their talents into the joint project is not a matter of course but can be trained!

• Define goals: formulate common goals and derive specific goals from them.
• Plan collaboration: know strengths and weaknesses and define roles.
• Improve collaboration: work on collaboration constantly.

4. Convince others

When the project has matured, it is time to convince other people. An effective pitch requires practice!

• Clarify goals: know the target group and anticipate results.
• Structure the message and storyline: formulate and arrange key statements in an orderly way.
• Support the spoken word: use body language and demeanor to reinforce the story.

In our formats referred to in the Fitness Club for Future Skills, we offer the opportunity to develop and use these skills. These are always exercise-based and result-oriented.