Coaching for Change

RAISING KIDS FOR FUTURE Change is the only thing that does not change. This is something that we all know. And as we enter, what Professor Klaus Schwab calls, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is being said that 65% of the children entering primary school today will be doing jobs that do not exist yet. I had once attended a lecture by Education Scientist Prof. Sugata Mitra. As a concerned parent, I asked him that with technology disrupting the world we know not just the work but the way we live and learn also, what skills should we teach our children today so that they can be successful tomorrow. He said, “train them to be adaptable and resilient”. Living in the affluent developed world where the external environment is predictable today and in the era of the smartphone where everything can be summoned at the touch of a button without even a second’s delay, this is something we parents and educators need to think about “Are we raising adaptable and resilient future genera...

CAREER PATH FOR NEXT GENERATION The corporate career progression today is being called “jungle gym” in contrast to "ladder" as it was traditionally expected to be. Which means instead of taking a predictable series of upward steps from graduation until retirement, today’s professionals are making lateral moves and unexpected jumps. Goldman Sach's CEO, Solomon’s advice, he likes to tell ambitious millennial's of their career path, “You don’t have to know where it’s all going to go. Just live it and try to enjoy it as much as you can.” Does your teen have what it takes to be in the "Jungle Gym"? Read what Goldman Sach's CEO has to say to the next generation here .