Lead with grace Evaluate Self image
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when my daughter was 12
she said something that maybe changed my
entire theory
about parenting and educating kids
when i left my full-time position as
assistant professor in applied
linguistics and ventured into a position
in management
i was quickly humbled by the experience
and had to shed
layers of my personality when i started
getting the first hunches
about opening my side hustle the
transformative education consulting
my ego kept standing in my way and
nagging
how are you going to do this you don’t
have the skills the resources the funds
to do it who do you think you are
how dare you claim the business world
you are a teacher
and teachers stay in the classroom
you see change is inevitable but
personal growth is a choice
that’s what my mentor bob proctor would
always say it’s his mantra
but you know the point i want to drive
home today is that change is inevitable
but adapting and adjusting to the
requirements of change
is no longer a choice it is a must
why because the only constant in a
constantly changing word
is change itself now let me share with
you some of the drivers of change
as the fourth industrial revolution
people would call it
the first driver is technology today
there are 5.9 billion users of
technology
and um and 91 percent
ask a question while doing a task and
ask it
on google jobs are being replaced by
technology
53 percent of people of all ages
are afraid of being replaced by
technology
around 34 percent of the workforce
today according to the elast survey
do not want to take fixed jobs the
nine-to-five
jobs and prefer freelancing and working
on projects now according to the word
economic forum
report of 2018 an average of
71 of total task hours
across several industries are performed
by humans
compared to 29 percent performed by
machines now by 2020 this average is
expected to have shifted to
58 percent performed by humans
and 42 percent by machines
the second driver is the impact of
technology
on the skills needed according to
research in linkedin
the top five skills companies need most
in 2019 and beyond are
creativity persuasion collaboration
adaptability and time management
again according to the word economic
forum among the top 10 skills
needed are emotional intelligence
creativity
and adaptability now what does this mean
for the young people who are watching us
today
most of the young people present in here
today will be assessed on
emotional intelligence when they sit or
by the time they sit for an interview
for a job more than for their
iq so it’s the their eq rather than
iq that is uh important
now why one might say okay this is great
now that we know which skills are needed
for the next
5-10 years the next thing is to go in
there at schools
and teach them easier said than done
why when my daughter told me
my friends had cool parents
i envy her i knew something deep deep
inside shattered
had to go and be replaced by something
new
it’s my self-image as a mom and as a
parent
it was time for me to explore what cool
parents
do and change and replace
that chip in my software i had to take
inventory
of my thoughts my feelings my beliefs my
actions
and keep what was working for me and my
daughter
and leave all the rest it was like
rebirth
there was a time before and a time after
that incident when i stepped into my new
job in educational management
i had to let go of some of my old
practices
as assistant professor in applied
linguistics inherent to
lecturing researching working with the
words
and data and mainly into the word of
interpersonal communication into
exploring the amaze and intricacies of
the human mind
of my colleagues to be able to better
understand them
and better help them and serve them
radical empathy
as seth gordon calls it was huge for me
to make this happen
i was no longer the same my self-image
received
yet another upgrade
when i started my consultancy business
everything in me
my logic my reasoning my memory my
upbringing
were siding with the impostor syndrome
and the loud voice in my
head imploring me not to do it
and to stay in the comfort of the nine
to five job
except one flash thought of me enjoying
myself
doing what i love and living life on my
own terms
that one single thought where
i fused with my desire was enough to
engineer
a whole change in my self-image by
facing my self-sabotaging beliefs
with a simple but powerful question is
it true
i guess the idea i want to impress upon
you
is that skills and skills training is
great but it is not enough
why because those skills listed in the
world economic forum
do not require a changing skill set they
require a change at
mindset level take for instance
creativity
how do you teach someone to be creative
in a
60 or 90 minute or even a two-day
workshop or seminar
doesn’t it require first the person
seeing himself
as creative i am creative a change in
mindset
and in particular our self-image
is the name of the game maxwell moles in
his book psycho cybernetics says
self-image
sets the boundaries of individual
accomplishments
and that we can never outperform our
self-image
why because our self-image is our
control mechanism
our autopilot system that is controlling
the way
we think the way what we believe who we
are and what we are capable of doing
any change operated at the surface level
and that does not take into account a
change
at the deep root cause of that behavior
as human beings
is merely wishful thinking
now steve brazile america’s leading
strategist founder of
hitman inc and ceo of
fulbridge states that the skills we
currently have will take us
between three to five years so the main
characteristic of
the upcoming era is change
meaning constantly refining updating
upgrading our mental programs
our mental model our self-image by
bringing the future into the present
and preparing ourselves for it
buckminster fuller america’s 20th
century
avant-garde engineer and educator says
you never change
things by fighting reality to change
something
build a new model that will make the
existing one
obsolete so while creativity
emotional intelligence adaptability are
coming high on the list of priority
skills
all of which demanding a self-image
change
what would be the ramifications of these
new requirements for educational systems
and teachers
how is this going to impact parents and
the way they educate kids
at home and how are comfort companies
going to plan
training for their staff for example
for those of us who are doing the school
curriculum
are we providing the dedicated expertise
resources
facilities to hold our students and
train them in the skills that are needed
in the future
for the best part i would say overall we
are
now the question that remains is
are we willing to make of our homes
our schools and our classrooms a safer
space a safe space for our children
and students to take risks to allow
themselves
to hit and fail try and fail to be messy
in projecting themselves in the future
until they develop
clarity in their mind and create the
self-image
they aspire to have in three five or
ten years down the road
in a nutshell for me the answer
remains in our ability to reinvent
ourselves
to learn as we go and to be always
two steps ahead of change to lead it
with grace
and that’s by being ready willing
and able to shed the old self-image of
ourselves and embrace the new one the
one
that will help us navigate the new wave
of change
with grace thank you