What a wake up call
“All these years, the Ivy league schools created artificial scarcity, boasting of rejecting over 95% students who applied to them. It’s almost like a housing shelter bragging that yesterday they turned down 95% of the needy who needed shelter. The higher education institutions are no longer in public service. The tuition fees for higher education have increased 1400% in the last 40 years and the quality of education remains largely the same. People have realized the value of skills vs. just the degrees. These universities, beyond a point, didn’t invest in educating the broader community. They are now forced to rethink”, wrote Prof. Galloway, a NYU professor.
This, to me, was one of the most fascinating reads in the last 100 days. And not just the universities, the wine and dine style of selling, the brick and mortar world of retail are being reimagined, and the transition from Work from Home to Work from Anywhere, is changing the world that we live in today. Covid-19 has been a wake-up call for people! Human behavior and habits have changed!
This will need the leadership playbooks to change. The success behaviors of our managers need to change. At Jombay, we had tasked our team to track these changes, and curate opinions and literature from some of the finest management brains in the world. From Nancy Koehn at Harvard, Michael Useem at Wharton, Navi Radjou at Cambridge, to Anil Menon at World Economic Forum and Ram Nidomolu at ISB, the team curated opinions, articles, blogs from more than such 200 bright minds across academia and the business world to identify 16 behaviors (such as Tenacity During Volatility, Virtual Empowerment, Decisional Agility, Emotional Regulation, etc.) that matter to a future manager.
We then synthesized these 16 behaviors under 6 competencies that we term as the ‘Future-ready Manager’ competency model
- Connected Leadership
- Cognitive Flexibility
- Digital Dexterity
- Frugal Mindset
- Pragmatic Orientation
- Resilience & Empathy
And we curated a 45 minute Future-ready Manager Assessment for organizations to assess and identify gaps on these competencies. This can also be followed by a 30-45 day digital development journey based on adult learning principles. You could download our point of view on the Future-ready Manager by clicking here.
We hope to help the Indian companies to adapt to this changing world. And it is not about getting back to the pre-covid scenario but actually leapfrogging into a much brighter future. If you need more details, you could reach out to Mansi Mehta at +91-96733-10011 or [email protected]
India HR 40under40 Leader | Purpose | Impact | People
4 年"The brick and mortar ..is being reimagined", couldn't agree more! The pandemic made the best laid plans seem like paper exercises for many organizations. To me the most important competency for a Leader of teams is Cognitive Flexibility ie the ability to switch between the mental personas of the visionary and the executor. Making this switch continuously means we need to have skills that address both personas because being the executor is about speed, pushing through, drive etc. Being the visionary is about reading the future, big picture thinking, making connections. Very different skills and different approaches, yet the pandemic has taught us that we need our leaders now to have both.
Talent Management and Learning & Organization Development Professional
4 年The competencies mentioned is what we require in todays time Inspite of the older one and I guess each and every organisation has to re-look in their competency model considering the current and future scenarios.
Human Resources_Talent Management_People Connect
4 年Thanks Mohit for sharing the thoughts. All the competencies derived are well curated and process oriented. The call today is to be on top of the game while we deal with ambiguity.Connective leadership brings top down approach into effect and helps organization to be future ready
Thanks Mohit Gundecha for a very well thought out and researched perspective which resonates with out experience these past few months. I believe any manager/professional, would need these 6 competencies as well as creativity going forward to the redefined VUCA world.
CorporateLeader,Mountaineer,Model,Influencer&Mom
4 年Nice read and well articulated. for me its Digital dexterity as it requires organizations to embrace recent technologies, maximize personal learning with hands-on experiences, and promote diversity at every opportunity in your initiatives and decisions.