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This can be considered by far the most acceptable, relevant, and rigorous skills list as it aggregates the rigour that was applied in completing each of these studies by their principal organizations.
In step two, the top 16 skills were mapped to four skill categories- Cognitive skills, people skills, personal skills, and technological skills.
Cognitive Skills
Cognitive skills will be important in the future that help a person to learn, think, retain information, process information enabling a person to understand meanings, contexts, solve problems and make decisions. This is by far the most important category of skills for the future. Out of the 16 skills, six skills, namely, active learning and learning strategies, critical thinking and analysis (sense making) (smart system), creativity, originality and initiative, judgement and decision making, complex problem solving, transdisciplinarity, analytical thinking and innovation fall under this category. Each of these skills can be further articulated in detail.
People Skills
With new work models coming into existence, the future of workforce might be connected over network. It should be less of a surprise if one finds a person of Indian nationality living in Dubai working for a European company. This is only going to intensify in the future. With reduction of face-to-face contacts, people skills like teamwork, collaboration, social intelligence, leadership and social influence/ people management and emotional (social) intelligence will needed to manage work and engage people in the future.
Personal Skills
The future of work will also require people to change, adapt, and learn at a rapid pace. The workplace built over the network is likely to be extremely diverse in all possible ways. And, rapid changes, disruptions might also bring with them high levels of stress. Personal skills like resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility, embracing change (coping with uncertainty), diversity, and cultural intelligence (cross cultural) (fostering inclusiveness and novel and adaptive (adaptability) would be in great demand in the future.
Technological Skills
Technology has already pervaded our lives and the future is only going to make this mesh around us denser and stronger. Therefore, technological skills would be in great demand
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