NextMapping™ Future of Work Blog

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 […]