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What Machines Can’t Do - Communications Skills and the Future Workplace

John J Hagedorn, Director, Better Training Solutions Sdn Bhd

24-Dec-18 10:00

What Machines Can’t Do - Communications Skills and the Future Workplace

Science fiction is catching up to us, robots are taking over the world. New technologies are creating new jobs. Will AI and robotics displace more jobs or create more jobs? With so many positions having been eliminated or about to be, where are people likely to find jobs in the future workplace and which skills will be most essential? In this Raise Your Game session, John J Hagedorn shares about the most essential skills for the future workplace which will be those that are hardest to automate: Human Skills - Communication skills.

Produced by: Jermaine Bee

Presented by: Freda Liu


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Tags:  EnterpriseRaise Your Gamemachinesscience fictionrobotstechnologiesnew jobsfuture workplacecommunication skillsessential skillshuman skills





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