Future Skills
The art of understanding future challenges and developing relevant skills
The business landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological advancements, globalization, and changing workforce dynamics.
HR professionals are at the forefront of shaping organizational culture and navigating these shifts. The HR department has to develop the organisation for the future. Therefore, they need to identify, understand and develop the skills that will be relevant for the future, so that the organisation can strive.
This course equips HR teams with the skills and mindset necessary to understand future trends in HR, anticipate future challenges and develop the relevant skills within the department and the organisation, so that the company evolves and grows in a rapidly changing environment.
Who is it for?
The course is aimed at organizations and individuals working in HR in order to understand the challenges ahead and to develop relevant competencies within the department and the organization.
Course objectives
- Empower the HR Teams to build confidence in addressing emerging trends and challenges.
- Equip participants with knowledge about the future trends in HR and understanding how the skills of the future will look like
- Enhance Agility and prepare HR professionals to adapt quickly to technological and societal shifts.
- Strengthen Strategic Influence: Position HR as a key driver of business transformation.
Main topics
- The Role of HR in the Future of Work: Trends and how HR can lead.
- Understanding Trends: Learning abut the future trends in skills and understanding their impact for the worksforce
- Upskilling and Reskilling: Building capabilities of the workforce of tomorrow.
- Agility and Adaptability: Managing change and uncertainty.
- Digital Fluency: Adopting AI, automation, and HR tech for smarter processes.
- Data-Driven HR: Leveraging analytics to make strategic decisions.
- Human-Centric Leadership: Empathy and inclusion in people strategies.
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Techniques for addressing complex challenges.
Adela Cristea
Managing Partner & Founder Ascent GroupAdela Cristea is the managing partner of Ascent Group and founder of the consortium. Adela's academic background is in Economy and Law, at the "West University" Timișoara and "Vasile Goldiș" University, Arad. Throughout the years she's become specialised in numerous areas, studying at universities abroad (Gent University - Belgium; Göttingen University - Germany; National Democratic Institute - USA), as well as become trained in the Systems Thinking course at Oxford University.
Adela's wide experience of 20+ years, particularly that pertaining to the area of management and human resources, has been accumulated with multi-national companies such as Unilever or International Resources, as well as with consulting groups, such as Archimedes Consulting Group and Ascent Group.
All along, Adela has been engaged in multiple business start-up projects, company restructurings, labor conflicts and training, for multi-national companies, as well as for local businesses in a wide array of fields, both in Romania and abroad. Adela's multi-disciplinary experience is rounded off with a 15-year stretch teaching at the university.
Since 2017, Adela has become the co-founder of Design Thinkers Academy Eastern Europe, contributing to the development of the company to reach over 20 countries in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Central Asia.
Cătălina Schveninger
Senior HR Consultant & TrainerBusiness and HR leader turned consultant, Cătălina Schveninger uses her passion and expertise to enable organizations to achieve their mission through people strategies and culture. In her 25 years in the people function, Cătălina has played every role imaginable – from recruiter to HR generalist to Head of Employer Brand to Chief Learning Officer and finally to Chief People Officer. Her experience covers a wide range of industries, including SaaS, e-commerce and telco, all with extensive global footprint. She worked for iconic brands (GE, T-Mobile, Vodafone) as well as for purpose-led scale-ups in the field of education technology (FutureLearn, DataCamp).
