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EPISODE · Jan 9, 2026 · 20 MIN

Future Skills 2030: The Human Skills You’ll Need to Stay Relevant (Live Episode)

from NUGGETS: Bite-Sized Lessons to Help You Live, Lead, and Think Better

This is a special live-audience episode of NUGGETS — and you can hear the room. A question keeps coming up wherever we work with organisations: What skills will matter most in the years ahead — professionally and socially?Instead of guessing, we went to the data. Using the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, we found something many people still underestimate - 7 of the top 10 future skills are human skills.Resilience. Curiosity. Self-awareness. Listening. Adaptability. Motivation.We still call them “soft skills.” But they’re anything but soft. They’re hard to do — and critical to staying relevant as technology accelerates.In this episode, recorded live, we unpack:Why a degree is now “a visa, not a passport”Why tools change faster than people — and what that means for careersHow to work with intelligent machines instead of competing with themAnd we finish with three practical takeaways you can use immediately:Stay open, curious, and brave — and learn out loudPick one human skill you usually avoid and train it deliberatelyWatch where work actually breaks — it’s rarely technicalFinal nugget: The future of work isn’t just about what you know — it’s about how you learn, adapt, and stay useful alongside intelligent machines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a special live-audience episode of NUGGETS — and you can hear the room. A question keeps coming up wherever we work with organisations: What skills will matter most in the years ahead — professionally and socially?Instead of guessing, we went to the data. Using the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, we found something many people still underestimate - 7 of the top 10 future skills are human skills.Resilience. Curiosity. Self-awareness. Listening. Adaptability. Motivation.We still call them “soft skills.” But they’re anything but soft. They’re hard to do — and critical to staying relevant as technology accelerates.In this episode, recorded live, we unpack:Why a degree is now “a visa, not a passport”Why tools change faster than people — and what that means for careersHow to work with intelligent machines instead of competing with themAnd we finish with three practical takeaways you can use immediately:Stay open, curious, and brave — and learn out loudPick one human skill you usually avoid and train it deliberatelyWatch where work actually breaks — it’s rarely technicalFinal nugget: The future of work isn’t just about what you know — it’s about how you learn, adapt, and stay useful alongside intelligent machines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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