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The Gap Between Education Business Needs
The document discusses the disconnect between the education system and the evolving needs of the business community, highlighting that a significant portion of employers worldwide believe candidates lack essential soft skills and practical experience. It argues for a reevaluation of educational objectives to foster creative thinking, interpersonal skills, and critical information processing rather than rote learning. To better serve business needs, the education system must explicitly define and address the skills required by employers.
The Gap Between Education Business Needs
- 1. The Gap between Education and Business Needs
- 2. By Mark Lukens Source Ar(cle: How Educa*on is Failing To Serve Business Needs www.marklukens.com @marklukens Presenta(on Design By: Ramon Monteiro www.Iwillvisualize.com
- 3. Education is oneof the triumphs of modern civilization.
- 4. According to censusdata, over 40% of the U.S. population has an associate degree or higher.
- 5. With higher educationattendance continuing to rise, it’s only a matter of time before half the population has degrees.
- 6. But is allof this education really serving our needs, either as a society or as a business community?
- 7. Approximately one infour employers (24%) at a global level report that general lack of experiences at the root of the talent shortages they face,
- 8. while nearly onein five employers (19%) say candidates lack the required employability skills or “soft skills”
- 9. Skills deficiencies, including: Interpersonal skills (5%), Professionalism (e.g. appearance, punctuality) (4%), Flexibility and adaptability (4%).
- 10. This is notan issue confined within the borders of the U.S.; it can be seen across multiple developed countries and regions.
- 11. As an example,while every pronouncement of the UK government’s controversial educational secretary Michael Gove is at least he is triggering debate about education
- 12. “I regard educationas the means in which individuals can gain access to all the goods other goods that we value, cultural, social and economical, on their terms.” - Michael Gove
- 13. as in theU.S., no one is asking…
- 14. as in theU.S., no one is asking ? what the education system is for
- 15. When we setup a process within a business we ask…
- 16. When we setup a process within a business we ask what is it meant to do?
- 17. What is itmeant to do? ? ? ? We set it up to achieve those ends...
- 18. What is itmeant to do? ? ? ? We set it up to achieve those ends and refine it to ensure that they are met.
- 19. To do otherwiseis to set ourselves up to…
- 20. To do otherwiseis to set ourselves up to
- 21. This should alsoapply in education.
- 22. If the educationsystem is to serve the needs of business…
- 23. What are thoseneeds? ?
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- 26. Creative thinkers Applytheir skills to a variety of situations.
- 27. Constant Change isthe nature of todays market, as shifts in society and technology create a need for constant adaption Creative thinkers
- 28. Creative thinkers Theability to think creatively, to adapt and apply, to act with initiative is as vital to business success as it is to human fulfillment and creating happy employees.
- 29. Interpersonal skills Creative thinkers
- 30. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills The ability to empathize with others, to understand their point of view and effectively communicate with them has two big advantages.
- 31. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills First, it allows employees to work productively together, creating a successful working environment.
- 32. Second, it allowsemployees to understand and communicate with their customers, to hear their needs and to meet them. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills
- 33. information Skills Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills
- 34. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills Employees need the ability to work with the information they are given, whatever that information is. To use it to understand and shape their work.
- 35. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills ? Is the current education system providing these skills?
- 36. NO! Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills
- 37. Another brick inthe wall!
- 38. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills Sadly, this is not what our education system is built around.
- 39. Our system rewardsrote learning and rote thinking…
- 40. …not using theideas and solutions of others rather than creating your own.
- 41. If every assignmentis marked on citing past sources, where is the reward for coming up with your own ideas?
- 42. Interpersonal skills Creative thinkers Information skills
- 43. We don’t setout to teach interpersonal skills and communication at all…
- 44. Instead acting asif people will learn them by osmosis.
- 45. Employers identified anumber of soft skills deficiencies, including enthusiasm/ motivation (5%), interpersonal skills (4%)
- 46. These are difficult, complex areas, and the proliferaAon of counselors and speaking coaches shows how much value we can gain from training.
- 47. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills
- 48. As for information,we may talk about teaching how to process it, but we exam on the ability to recall facts,
- 49. We aren’t teachinghow to process information
- 50. We are teachinga small part of that information, a part which in the Internet age is already available at the push of a button.
- 51. It’s not therecall of facts that matters, it’s the ability to find and sift them.
- 52. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills
- 53. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills
- 54. Creative thinkers Interpersonal skills Information skills “If you want a job, then you have to have certain personal aFributes, skills, and abiliAes that employers and customers will value and want. Ge9ng an academic sheepskin isn’t enough.” -‐Mark Hendrickson
- 56. There are many implicaAons and assumpAons behind our current educaAon system.
- 57. Some of themare old fashioned, some have emerged over time…
- 58. but unless theyare directly addressed they will continue to shape our education system in unhelpful ways.
- 59. If we wanteducation to me et the needs of business…
- 60. then we needto state, clearly and explicitly: what those needs are
- 61. and build asystem designed to meet them. and build a system de sig ned to meet them.
- 62. References: Mark Lukens How EducaAon is Failing To Serve Business Needs. Mark Hendrickson MythbusAng 101: Uncomfortable Traths Your College Won’t Tell You (forbes.com) 2012 Talent Shortage Survey Results
- 63. @iwillvisualize Iwillvisualize.com @marklukens www.marklukens.com