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Are you at risk of becoming a redundant welfare recipient?
Welfare recipients are amongst the most vulnerable people on the planet.
They rarely get what they really need.
If you fail to master the following three skills, you could descend into that category.
Skill No. 1 – Attitudinal Competence
This is the foundation skill, the one we can all master early in life and certainly by age 25.
This is your ability to select, adapt and maintain your very best attitude for what has happened, is happening or might happen, and not be stuck with habitual attitudes.
This skill empowers you to:
- deal rapidly with any emotional upset
- live according to your well-chosen values
- improve yourself continuously
- manage better your conscious and unconscious bias
- adopt and maintain a growth mindset, remaining a life-long learner
- adapt more easily to the rapid changes occurring now
- there are many more benefits but the above are the universally most useful.
- More about Attitudinal Competence
Skill No. 2 – Conduct Crucial, Complex Conversations
This is your ability to observe and listen deeply, ask useful and appropriate questions and to a lesser extent make statements (tell) that are helpful, relevant and constructive.
This skill builds on the first (attitudinal competence) and empowers you to:
- listen deeply and observe to understand
- discover and explore effectively
- build relationships effectively
- learn more easily
- enhance your creativity
- be more readily understood
- become an effective influencer.
Skill No. 3 – Earn and Maintain Trust
Trust is the most precious currency. To earn trust is crucial not only for leaders but for all of us.
Trust is earned by being:
Consistently:
- Clear (transparent, e.g. owning up to your errors immediately)
- Courageous (honour your values always, even when no-one is looking)
- Competent (know your stuff and keep learning)
- Caring (demonstrate that you care for them and what they care about)
They are Easy to Learn
The three skills are easier to learn than
- riding a bicycle
- any language
- code
- engineering
- law
- medicine
- accounting
The Kicker
Those three skills cannot yet be, and maybe never, learned by robots or artificial intelligence (AI), whilst the harder ones listed immediately above are already learned by robots and AI.
Mastering those three skills will keep you sustainably employed at least, and capable of upward mobility and independence.
What You Can Do About This
- Firstly, determine to master Attitudinal Competence which will prepare you best for everything, and if that’s all you choose you’ll still be well and truly OK.
- Study the art and skill of listening with Oscar Trimboli – I have no pecuniary interest attached to this recommendation, though I endorse Oscar as a brilliant and authentic expert in listening, whom I follow.
- Study the skill of asking and conversing – and there are abundant resources from which to choose.
- Develop trust with others, firstly by giving trust and then earning it as I’ve outlined above.
Stay in touch with me and let me know what you think about this.
More importantly, share with me what you intend to do about it.
