Preparing For Future-Ready Leaders

The Covid-19 pandemic is speeding up the incredible working environment change of the world turning out to be more associated, digital and mechanised. With numerous workers/employees stuck at home, organisations are scrambling to digital solutions - like virtual gathering rooms and video conferencing - to keep their work process secure and their workforce strong.

As organisations reinvent their strategies and operations in the wake of being overturned by the Covid-19 pandemic, B-school leaders are learning a significant example: one cannot be prepared enough for the future and not all lessons are learnt in classrooms

The Covid-19 pandemic is speeding up the incredible working environment change of the world turning out to be more associated, digital and mechanised. With numerous workers/employees stuck at home, organisations are scrambling to digital solutions - like virtual gathering rooms and video conferencing - to keep their work process secure and their workforce strong.

The education institutes today espouse an outcome-based education and 70 per cent of the curriculum involves learning on the field. Having the right skills for the future is paramount.

Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore believes that the skills which a leader of “tomorrow-land" needs to possess, are as follows:

1. Impeccable decision-making skills
2. Being aware of the psychological barriers which creep in, particularly referring to the confirmation bias
3. Possessing the art of deciphering weak signals
4. Lastly, the importance of collaboration

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