ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series

1. ISSIP Edu & Research
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New Skills Needed, NOW!
Speaker: @ArnoldBeekes from @TheNewABC

2. Rules, Field, Equipment, Ball, Audience, Competition, €, Fitness
Hockey
1973 2016
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3. The Need
➢ Bridging the skills gap
➢ Creating 500M jobs before 2020 ????
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Check out the video:
https://youtu.be/7g8OpiWR83Y

4. 21st Century Skills from the 2016 WEF report
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5. Top 10 skills needed NOW!
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6. The skills gap
Skills one can learn through
education and training
- Statistical analysis
- Profit and loss management
- Programming languages
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Skills that employers are
looking for
- Dealing with complexity
and ambiguity
- Balancing opposing views
- Teaming and collaboration
- Co-creativity
- Cultural sensitivity
- Ability to manage diverse
employees
source: Oxford Economics 2016

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-> Number 4: Skills
Gap (PWC 2016)

8. Disrupting the workforce
➢ Humanoid robots
➢ Artificial Intelligence
➢ Anything which is rule based, repetitive, and predictable will be done by machines
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9. Why
Youth
❖ Reduce youth unemployment (>75M, globally).
❖ Reduce 290 million youth neither working nor studying (NEET).
❖ Minimize the risk of jobs being replaced by automation varies by country
(China 77%; India 69%).
❖ 65% of children entering grade school will ultimately work in jobs that don’t exist
today.
TheNewABC Goals:
➢ Bridging the skills gap
➢ Enabling young people to have paid work
“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” Marshall Mcluhan
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10. 10
Flipping the education system

11. Teaching
Ingredients
Culture
Curriculum
Duration
Location
Teacher
Students
Payment
Metrics
Output
Fun
Skills; Flexible portfolio
Lifelong; Self-paced
Online; Virtual Reality
Chosen; anyone
Peer focus
A la carte
Results; Mindset
Active citizen
Obedience
Fixed; Knowledge
Fixed; defined pace
Fixed; in real-life
Fixed; certified
Individual focus
High
Testing
Passive consumer
TheNewABC
Learning
Traditional
Education

12. The Problem
What is the main shift that workers have to make?
Fixed mindset Growth mindset
Being reactive Taking initiatives
Working for someone else Building your own business
Learning until you finish education Lifelong learning
Fear of failing Continuous experimenting
Working individually Collaborating
Working physically/locally Working globally/remotely
Using Microsoft Office Using collaborative web technologies
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13. TheNewABC addresses the skills gap
New knowledge + New Skills
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Phase 1: Life Skills focus Phase 2: Skills focus

14. Practical Life Skills for Work
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15. Key for learning skills
●Intrinsic motivation (YOUR choice)
●Understanding (study different perspectives)
●Deliberate practice (10.000 hours rule)
●Fun (enjoy the journey)
●No judgement (remove fear of
failure/rejection) ------> Virtual Real World
Experiences
➢Life Skills App (Android) 15

16. Willingness to Learn New Skills
➢ The vast majority of young people across global markets recognize that
success in their career will depend on learning new skills continuously
throughout their working lives. On average 84% agree.
➢ The vast majority in all markets – reaching 76% in China and falling to 67%
in France – claim to like engaging in activities in their spare time that
enable them to learn new skills.
➢ Moreover, around two-thirds globally now consider learning a new skill to
be a form of entertainment.
Source: 2016 Infosys - Amplifying Human Potential
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17. Digital Portfolio (Phase 1)
App (Free)
Courses (Free)
Upskilling (Paid)
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Customer Traction
Beta test app - 15 users
Courses - 25 users (Africa, Europe)
Upskilling Pilots - 29 participants
(Hungary, Vietnam, India, France,
Japan, USA, UK, Mexico, Singapore,
Ecuador); Order to upskill employees
of a restaurant in Budapest.

18. You can help
➢ Co-create a Life Skills program for your university
➢ Introduce us to Upskilling departments of large companies
➢ Connect us with investors (VR/EdTech)
THANK YOU, on behalf of 400M+ un/underemployed youth!
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19. How to connect?
TheNewABC: The Skills Powerhouse:
Learning Life Skills at Your Fingertips
arnold@thenewabc.net
Skype: beekes
thenewabc.net
youtube.com/thenewabcnetwork 19