This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skills required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work.
● Empowering Teachers with AI: Join the Future Smart Teacher Club!
Our Future Smart Teacher team have had a brilliant 10-day bootcamp empowering teachers, and their students, by showing them what’s possible, how to integrate AI into their classes and firing them up to embrace AI rather than fear it as just another tech tool they need to embrace. The replays from the boot camp are available until Sunday, and our Future Smart Teacher membership is officially open with a great founding member offer, which you can check out here…
And if you aren’t a teacher, perhaps consider gifting a special teacher in your lives an annual membership for just R980 or $55. This gives them a lifetime subscription and will truly be a brilliant, unique and empowering end-of-year gift. Read here for more info and to take advantage of our founding member offer.
● Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees.
Unfortunately, happiness at work is rare. Numerous polls show low levels of work engagement in U.S. companies, with perhaps half of employees disengaged and disaffected. That’s an appalling finding. I think the problem is that human resource policy too often centres around compensation and benefits and not around the nature of the work itself.
To motivate their teams leaders at all levels can rethink how they define their strategy, jobs, and culture.
1. Mastery: Help people develop deep skills.
2. Membership: Create community by honouring individuality.
3. Meaning: Repeat and reinforce a larger purpose.
Read the full article by Harvard Business Review here.
● Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
Why do some people succeed, and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research, Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success.
Angela has found that Grit – a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal – is the hallmark of high achievers in every domain. She’s also found scientific evidence that grit can grow.
Read more about Angela Duckworth’s New York Times bestseller book and watch her TED talk here.
● ThrowForward Thursday: The Talking Robots are Human Controlled.
The near future of so-called autonomous humanoid robots is not quite what we imagine. Join Graeme as he looks to 2029, when a dark side of the robotic world becomes reality.
Watch Graeme’s ThrowForward Thursday video as he takes a look at 2029 as a cautionary tale about capitalism, worker rights, technology hype and the illusions of progress.
● The Science of Recharging on Weekends and Vacations on WorkLife with Adam Grant.
Many people don’t use all their paid time off from work and struggle to relax and recover on nights and weekends too. What does it take to make our breaks more restorative?
Adam Grant examines the evidence on recovery and burnout, explores how workplaces can reimagine vacation policies and highlights what kinds of hobbies are best suited to different times of day. Listen to the podcast here.
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