6. New-Media literacy

The explosions in user-generated media including the videos, blogs and products that now dominate our social lives will be fully felt in workplaces in the next decade. Communication tolls that break away from the static slide approach of programs such as PowerPoint will become commonplace and with them expectations of worker ability to produce content using these new forms will rise dramatically.

The next generation workers need to become fluent in forms of video, able to critically read and assess them in the same way that they currently asses a paper or presentation. They will also need to be comfortable in creating and presenting their own visual information.

7. Transdisciplinarity

Most of the global problems today are too complex to be solved by one specialized discipline. These multifaceted problems require transdisciplinary solutions. The ideal workers of next decade will bring deep understanding of at least one field but have the capacity to converse in languages of a broader range of disciplines. This requires a sense of curiosity and willingness to go on learning far beyond the years of formal education.