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6. Design Thinking: Creating Leaders Who Are Triathletes
When we shift our hiring and leadership practices to a human-centric model, we see the incredible ways our skills and experiences blend together to problem solve. For leaders, this means celebrating that you are the sum of all your parts. For jobseekers, this means learning how to tell the story of your skills in language your future employer can understand.
This week, Kelly is joined by the wonderful Cynthia Hansen former World Economic Forum global leadership fellow. Following a career in the private and nonprofit sectors, Cynthia joined the Adecco Group in 2017 to start the new Adecco Group Foundation, and spearhead social innovation.
Cynthia believes empathy is crucial to collaboration, to consultation, and co-creation.
Big Takeaways:
- We need to train leaders to be “the connecter...[To be able]to think about who else might bring something interesting to the table.”
- The key to success for jobseekers or those changing careers is learning how “you frame what skills you have...in a way that an employer will understand... So whether you're an elite athlete or an elite musician, you know how to be self critical. You know how to listen to or watch your own performance and critique it. You know how to work in a group. You know how to motivate people around you. You know how to get and give feedback, and all these great things that you might think, well, I've never worked in an office. I don't have the skills I need for an office. But you probably do. You just need to think about them differently, and then maybe translate them into slightly different language.”
- “With the current situation, and with more people working from home, more people going through a career transition, that it's really important that we're all looking at that interconnected nature of what we do, how we relate what we contribute, what we take away. And so if I can encourage people to really be more holistically minded to think in a systemic way. To think not just about what you're doing now, but what you might want to do in the future, and how you would get there, and who you need, then in your circle.”
Follow Adecco Group
https://www.instagram.com/adeccogroup/
https://twitter.com/adeccogroup
adeccogroupfoundation.org
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By Kelly Ryan Bailey
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When we shift our hiring and leadership practices to a human-centric model, we see the incredible ways our skills and experiences blend together to problem solve. For leaders, this means celebrating that you are the sum of all your parts. For jobseekers, this means learning how to tell the story of your skills in language your future employer can understand.
This week, Kelly is joined by the wonderful Cynthia Hansen former World Economic Forum global leadership fellow. Following a career in the private and nonprofit sectors, Cynthia joined the Adecco Group in 2017 to start the new Adecco Group Foundation, and spearhead social innovation.
Cynthia believes empathy is crucial to collaboration, to consultation, and co-creation.
Big Takeaways:
- We need to train leaders to be “the connecter...[To be able]to think about who else might bring something interesting to the table.”
- The key to success for jobseekers or those changing careers is learning how “you frame what skills you have...in a way that an employer will understand... So whether you're an elite athlete or an elite musician, you know how to be self critical. You know how to listen to or watch your own performance and critique it. You know how to work in a group. You know how to motivate people around you. You know how to get and give feedback, and all these great things that you might think, well, I've never worked in an office. I don't have the skills I need for an office. But you probably do. You just need to think about them differently, and then maybe translate them into slightly different language.”
- “With the current situation, and with more people working from home, more people going through a career transition, that it's really important that we're all looking at that interconnected nature of what we do, how we relate what we contribute, what we take away. And so if I can encourage people to really be more holistically minded to think in a systemic way. To think not just about what you're doing now, but what you might want to do in the future, and how you would get there, and who you need, then in your circle.”
Follow Adecco Group
https://www.instagram.com/adeccogroup/
https://twitter.com/adeccogroup
adeccogroupfoundation.org