NextMapping™ Future of Work Blog

It is the beginning of a new decade AND 2020 is the year of bettering ourselves. It is time for each of us to increase our commitment to being better individuals, better team players, and better leaders. Can you feel the urgency of it? Can you feel the pull of the future asking us to […]

We are celebrating here at NextMapping as 2019 comes to a close. In 2019 my book, “NextMapping – Anticipate, Navigate and Create The Future of Work” AND created the 2nd edition with a personal workbook that will be published in February 2020. Our consulting clients increased their success in 2019 by embracing shared leadership. In […]

Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chris Rainey founder of HRleaders.com on the future of work, digital, change and the PREDICT model from my book, “NextMapping – Anticipate, Navigate and Create The Future of Work”. The interview was focused around the fast-changing future and how leaders can leverage the PREDICT model to […]

At NextMapping we have surveyed thousands of leaders and one of the top issues facing leaders is “how to get employees to engage”. Recently, I conducted a series of workshops for BMO Bank of Montreal across Canada. We traveled to Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto. The focus was on the future of work […]

Recently we released our updated report on Top 20 Trends for Future of Work 2020. This article focuses on one of the trends for the future of work 2020. One of the trends that we researched includes the focus on digital transformation through the lens of ‘people first’. Many leaders we have surveyed have stated […]

We have surveyed thousands of leaders and one of the top challenges revealed is: How to stop skepticism in the workplace. NextMapping survey The dizzying pace of change in technology and business makes it difficult to keep workers engaged in creating the future. Workers are challenged with ongoing change and do not trust their leaders […]

The term “soft skills” implies weak or non-essential and so I say, ‘No more soft skills!’. I am on a mission! I have been on this mission for over a decade! I am hoping you will join me. The mission is to have the term “soft skills” be replaced with new term such as “essential […]

There is no crystal ball but there’s a secret that innovators know – you can predict the future by leveraging patterns. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “the best way to predict the future is to create it”. At NextMapping we help you predict the future by leveraging patterns. In my book, “NextMapping – Anticipate, […]

I am writing this from the Minneapolis airport where I have completed a series of keynotes for clients in the employee relocation industry, clients in the defense industry and clients in the federal government. Although each of these industries may seem disparate and unalike the truth is that every single unique industry has commonalities with […]

There is no question that the workforce of the future will be an adaptive workforce. The workforce of the future is going to look entirely different than it does today. A number of trends are pointing to the changes impacting the future of workplaces. In my book, “NextMapping – Anticipate, Navigate and Create The Future […]

The future needs leaders with masculine & feminine attributes. We are at a very important time and place in the world. Every day we see examples of great and not so great leadership by both men and women, whether in corporations, start ups or politics. Leadership attributes in the past have been primarily masculine in […]

I have a question: Do your people trust their leaders? If you answered yes – that’s great your company is future ready! There is science backed research that proves that a trust culture has higher rates of engagement and other benefits. Paul J. Zak a Harvard researcher has researched the relationship between trust, leadership and […]

Many industries including insurance are adapting quickly to the many changes impacting the future workplace insurance 2025. AI, automation, robotics, changing worker attitudes are quickly impacting the future of insurance. There is a need for leaders to have upgraded skills such as the ability to have multiple perspectives. Leaders need to be able to lead […]

Cheryl Cran:         I’m really excited today, to have Amber Mac as our guest. Amber please share with our clients your background.  Amber Mac:         Thank you, I’ve been working for almost 20 years now in the technology industry. I started out getting into the weeds at a couple of tech startups in San Francisco. I have a journalism […]

Are you inundated with massive change? Join the club! We are in a time where it is imperative that we all get better at learning how to flex in times of flux. Definition of ‘flex’: To move or tense Definition of ‘flux’: Synonym for ‘change’ The speed of change and information that we are dealing […]