• In Conversation with Emma Birchall – Adapting to the 100-year life

  • Jun 4 2023
  • Length: 26 mins
  • Podcast

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In Conversation with Emma Birchall – Adapting to the 100-year life

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    Emma Birchall, head of insight and forecasting at Hotspots Movement, explores the implications of longer lives for society and business. In conversation with Future Talent Learning's Karam Filfilan, she explains why we need to reskill and reinvent ourselves continuallly to stay valuable in the workforce and why organisations must provide opportunities for horizontal moves and skills-building. She emphasises the importance of human skills and peer-to-peer learning.

    Episode timestamps

    • The 100 Year Life: what skills do we need to survive? [00:00:18]
    • Financial challenges of retirement [00:03:12]
    • Experimenting with changes to our working lives [00:05:41]
    • The need to reinvent ourselves due to technological change [00:07:48]
    • Building skills continuously [00:10:26]
    • Building our intangible assets [00:13:42]
    • The employer role in brokering training [00:17:29]
    • Future-proofing organisations [00:20:04]
    • Developing uniquely human skills [00:22:53]
    • Future-proofing our careers [00:24:35]
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