These slides were the basis of my panel presentation at the IEDC conference in Indianapolis on June 4. The basic question being addressed was "how can we train people for jobs that don't yet exist?

1. Growing Talent for Tomorrow’s Industries
James P. Ware, PhD IEDC
Executive Director Understanding Tomorrow’s Industries Today
The Future of Work…unlimited Indianapolis, Indiana
June 6, 2011

2. Thinking About Tomorrow: Drivers of Change
Technology Globalization
Demographics Public Policy
Social Values Sustainability
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3. What Do We Know about the Future of Work?
It will be more. . .
Creative
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4. How Do We Train for Jobs That Don’t Exist?
We Don’t
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5. Instead, Focus on Core Skills
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6. Go Back to Basics
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7. Imagine Alternative Futures
Example: Possible Roles for the Chief HR Officer*
Self-Organizing Casting Global
Director Dealmaker
Organization
Strategy
Systems
Hierarchical Caregiver Integrator
Scarce Surplus
* Source: “Scenarios for the Future of Human Resource
Management,” Society of Human Resource Management, 2005 Talent Supply
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8. We Prepare for Those Futures in Many Ways
We Play. . .
We Play
Games. . .
. . . and We
Play Games
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9. We Prepare for Those Futures in Many Ways
We Study
History
We Practice
We Write
Playbooks
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10. We Prepare for Those Futures in Many Ways
We Create
Stories
We Go Where No
One Has Gone We Build
Simulations
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11. We Prepare for Those Futures in Many Ways
We Build
Simulators
We Simulate
the Future
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12. Redefining What Education is About
Creating
Learning
Identifying Experiences
Core Skills
Imagining
Context
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13. For Further Information
James P. Ware, Ph.D.
Executive Director
The Future of Work…unlimited
Berkeley, California
+1 510 558 1434 voice
+1 510 558 1431 fax
+1 510 206 8147 mobile
jim@thefutureofwork.net
Website: http://www.thefutureofwork.net
Blog: http://www.thefutureofwork.net/blog
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