644: How to Sharpen Your Skills for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet with Michelle Weise
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Weise sheds light on the learning challenges professionals will face in the near future—and how we can prepare for them.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to surface your hidden skills
2) How to keep AI from making you irrelevant
3) Nifty tools for upskilling quickly
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— ABOUT MICHELLE —
Michelle Weise was just named to the Thinkers50 thinkers to watch in 2021. She is senior advisor to Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group, and BrightHive, a data collaboration platform.
She is former chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network and Southern New Hampshire University. She led the higher education practice at Clay Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Her most recent book is LONG LIFE LEARNING: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet (Wiley, 2020). Her first book, with Clay Christensen (2014) is Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution.
• Michelle’s book: Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet
• Michelle’s LinkedIn: Michelle R. Weise
• Michelle’s Twitter: @rwmichelle
• Michelle’s website: RiseAndDesign.io
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Tool: Freestyle2 Keyboard for PC
• Website: Skills Match
• Software: GLEAC
• Software: Mursion
• Company: FutureFit AI
• Company: Skyhigh Manpower Recruitment International
• Company: InnoCentive
• Company: Climb Hire
• Book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Book: Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Previous episode: 376: How to Become the Success Nobody Saw Coming: Research Insights into “Dark Horses” from Harvard’s Todd Rose
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.2 | With your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.2 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 644 with Michelle Weiss. |
| 0:24.0 | Michelle has got a great perspective on the future of work and skills and automation |
| 0:28.4 | related. |
| 0:29.4 | What's going down? |
| 0:30.4 | See, I'll learn one. |
| 0:31.4 | How to surface your hidden skills. |
| 0:32.4 | Two, how to keep AI from making you irrelevant. |
| 0:35.4 | And three, nifty tools for upskilling quickly. |
| 0:38.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to as we've |
| 0:41.0 | referenced, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep644. |
| 0:45.0 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out our gold nugget |
| 0:48.5 | email summaries, which give you insights from Michelle and every guest that's gone |
| 0:52.4 | before her. |
| 0:53.4 | And a quick email right up, you can read in about three minutes, as well as access to |
| 0:57.9 | the archive, the vault of all of those. |
| 0:59.8 | That's the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:02.0 | And here's Michelle's story. |
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