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New Skills Needed, NOW!

Speaker: @ArnoldBeekes from @TheNewABC

Rules, Field, Equipment, Ball, Audience, Competition, €, Fitness

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1973 2016

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The Need ➢ Bridging the skills gap

➢ Creating 500M jobs before 2020 ????

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https://youtu.be/7g8OpiWR83Y

21st Century Skills from the 2016 WEF report

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Top 10 skills needed NOW!

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The skills gap

Skills one can learn through

education and training - Statistical analysis

- Profit and loss management

- Programming languages

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Skills that employers are

looking for - Dealing with complexity

and ambiguity

- Balancing opposing views

- Teaming and collaboration

- Co-creativity

- Cultural sensitivity

- Ability to manage diverse

employees

source: Oxford Economics 2016

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-> Number 4: Skills

Gap (PWC 2016)

Disrupting the workforce

➢ Humanoid robots

➢ Artificial Intelligence

➢ Anything which is rule based, repetitive, and predictable will be done by machines

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Why Youth

❖ Reduce youth unemployment (>75M, globally).

❖ Reduce 290 million youth neither working nor studying (NEET).

❖ Minimize the risk of jobs being replaced by automation varies by country

(China 77%; India 69%).

❖ 65% of children entering grade school will ultimately work in jobs that don’t exist

today.

TheNewABC Goals:

➢ Bridging the skills gap

➢ Enabling young people to have paid work

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” Marshall Mcluhan

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Flipping the education system

Teaching

Ingredients

Culture

Curriculum

Duration

Location

Teacher

Students

Payment

Metrics

Output

Fun

Skills; Flexible portfolio

Lifelong; Self-paced

Online; Virtual Reality

Chosen; anyone

Peer focus

A la carte

Results; Mindset

Active citizen

Obedience

Fixed; Knowledge

Fixed; defined pace

Fixed; in real-life

Fixed; certified

Individual focus

High

Testing

Passive consumer

TheNewABC

Learning

Traditional

Education

The Problem What is the main shift that workers have to make?

Fixed mindset Growth mindset

Being reactive Taking initiatives

Working for someone else Building your own business

Learning until you finish education Lifelong learning

Fear of failing Continuous experimenting

Working individually Collaborating

Working physically/locally Working globally/remotely

Using Microsoft Office Using collaborative web technologies

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TheNewABC addresses the skills gap

New knowledge + New Skills

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Phase 1: Life Skills focus Phase 2: Skills focus

Practical Life Skills for Work

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Key for learning skills

●Intrinsic motivation (YOUR choice)

●Understanding (study different perspectives)

●Deliberate practice (10.000 hours rule)

●Fun (enjoy the journey)

●No judgement (remove fear of

failure/rejection) ------> Virtual Real World

Experiences

➢Life Skills App (Android) 15

Willingness to Learn New Skills

➢ The vast majority of young people across global markets recognize that

success in their career will depend on learning new skills continuously

throughout their working lives. On average 84% agree.

➢ The vast majority in all markets – reaching 76% in China and falling to 67%

in France – claim to like engaging in activities in their spare time that

enable them to learn new skills.

➢ Moreover, around two-thirds globally now consider learning a new skill to

be a form of entertainment.

Source: 2016 Infosys - Amplifying Human Potential

Source: Infosys 2016 Amplifying Human potential

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Digital Portfolio (Phase 1)

App (Free)

Courses (Free)

Upskilling (Paid)

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Customer Traction

Beta test app - 15 users

Courses - 25 users (Africa, Europe)

Upskilling Pilots - 29 participants

(Hungary, Vietnam, India, France,

Japan, USA, UK, Mexico, Singapore,

Ecuador); Order to upskill employees

of a restaurant in Budapest.

You can help

➢ Co-create a Life Skills program for your university

➢ Introduce us to Upskilling departments of large companies

➢ Connect us with investors (VR/EdTech)

THANK YOU, on behalf of 400M+ un/underemployed youth! 18

How to connect?

TheNewABC: The Skills Powerhouse:

Learning Life Skills at Your Fingertips

arnold@thenewabc.net

Skype: beekes

thenewabc.net

youtube.com/thenewabcnetwork

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