Karie Willyerd

You know you can do more with your career. And the future is going to demand more of you. The problem is you are so busy keeping up with the day-to-day that you can't prepare for tomorrow. Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace gives you the confidence and knowledge you need to achieve your goals in an ever-changing world. Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick—established experts and the collective winners of dozens of awards in the field of personal development and learning—offer evidence-based guidance on obtaining the skills you will need to thrive in tomorrow's workplace. Built on solid, global research and dozens of personal interviews with people who have achieved new and inspiring goals, Stretch offers advice, valuable insights, anecdotes, and recommendations to make achieving your goals practical and within reach. If you are like other professionals, your biggest worry is becoming obsolete at work. Shifting technologies, fierce competition among corporations, and recruitment occurring on a global level would give anyone concern. To remain relevant in spite of change, you need to know how to: Learn in any situationOpen your thinking to a world beyond where you are nowConnect to the people who can help you make your future happenSeek experiences that will prepare you for tomorrowStay motivated through the ups and downs of a career so you can bounce forward Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace offers five practices to help you start, enhance, and lengthen your career by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment. Don't become obsolete. Instead, stretch to achieve your potential.

The workplace of the future is being shaped today by Web 2.0 - a collection of breakthrough social media technologies - and the Millennial Generation, born after 1980. The entrance of these hyper-connected workers will put increased pressure on employers to overhaul their approach to talent management. "The 2020 Workplace" offers a practical game plan companies can use to transform their business; achieve compelling business results, such as increased innovation, improved customer connectedness, and engaged employees; and, compete more effectively in the global marketplace. Based on key findings from two surveys of global professionals, as well as case studies from organisations like Deloitte, Cisco, Bell Canada, Jet Blue, Nokia, and NASA, this book shows how the same social technologies that are used outside the company in marketing to connect with customers can be adapted for use inside the company to connect with employees. Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd include real-world examples of these practices in action, including a YouTube new-hire orientation contest, use of Twitter for sourcing job candidates, and a video game for new hires. In addition, the authors offer 20 predictions for the 2020 workplace and a glossary for those who have never texted, posted...