New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce Report 2007

What you'll need:

"Strong skills in reading, writing speaking /English, math, technology and science, as well as literature, history and the arts will be essential for many; beyond this, candidates will have to be comfortable with ideas and abstractions, good at both analysis and synthesis, creative and innovative, self-disciplined and well organized, able to learn very quickly and work well as a member of a team and have the flexibility to adapt quickly to frequent changes in the labor market as the shifts in the economy become even faster and more dramatic.“ (2007, emphasis mine)

Why your previous schooling may have not been adequate:

"Too often our testing system rewards students who will be good at routine tasks [precisely those that are being automated], while not providing opportunities for students to display creative and innovative thinking and analysis.”

“...leadership does not depend on technology alone...but on a deep vein of creativity that is constantly renewing itself. Now many students just slide through high school because they know that all they have to do is get passes in their courses or a satisfactory score on an 8th or 9th grade level literacy test to go to college. With this system, they know they will not have to work hard in school and ...that is exactly what they will do."

Innovation is nor just for upper level jobs; it will be rewarded and expected of all workers. Assembly workers will participate in design or be fired.

Jobs/skills that will be in demand: Research, Development, Design, Marketing and Sales, Global Supply Chain Mgmt.

This course offers you the chance to improve these essential skills:

Learning how to learn (6 phases)
Creativity (heuristics/HTBB Pentadic and Tagmemic. are systemic and von Oech, problem-solving) = Writing process (5 phases)
Reading, listening, thinking critically
Interpersonal skills (group work)
Persuasion (EPL)
Time management
(technology: www/video)