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6 vital workplace skills you’ll need to succeed in the future

Career Advancement

As a manager, take action now to make sure your organization maximizes the potential of all its people, helping them develop the most vital skills for their shifting roles and functions. The following are some of the key skills of the future workforce that employees across a broad range of organizations will need to develop.

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How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See

Harvard Business Review

You believe they are trust worthy because you’ve developed this feeling over time. With this in mind, there are two types of trust— swift trust and passable trust —that are useful to understand for people who work in global organizations. Both types of trust have their limits, however.

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Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create "Moments"

Harvard Business Review

My colleague, Mark Mortensen, and I have identified two types of knowledge — direct and reflected — that help fill those awareness contextual gaps. Direct knowledge involves norms, rules, and context about the personal characteristics, relationships, and behaviors of other collaborators.

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Olympic Host Cities Need Transparency, Not Knowledge Transfer

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Particularly in the last 12 years since the Sydney Games, it has put extensive effort into developing a Knowledge Management Program. Language barriers.