More and more often, I stumble across terms like: Industry 4.0, Work 4.0, Internet of Things, digitalization, automation, Artificial Intelligence, and agility. Many experts predict that the workplace will change significantly in the next 5-10 years due to the technological innovations mentioned above. One's own hashtag should not be missing: #futureofwork.
Are you ready to take the step from Trainer 2.0 to Trainer 4.0?
The Bertelsmann Foundation has compiled the results of the BarCamp Work 4.0 in two publications. These publications are quite extensive. If you are interested in a specific aspect, take a look at the tables of contents:
Proclamation "Future of Work" Work 4.0: How will we work in the future?
One thing that stands out: it is assumed that many (partial) work tasks will be automated. As a result, this means that professions, as we know them today, will disappear. Do you want to know which jobs will be replaced? The BBC provides a job search engine. There you can enter various professions and get an assessment of how likely the profession is to be automated. The University of Oxford supplies the data. In German, there is the automation job search engine from the newspaper "Die Süddeutsche".
Trainer and Coach: A profession that cannot be automated
The good news: trainers are likely not to be replaced by computers and robots anytime soon.
It is unlikely that trainers and coaches will be replaced by computer programs. (Image source: BBC)
So how will the future workplace look for Trainer 4.0? What changes can be expected in professions? I recommend the entertaining presentation by Gunter Dueck (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunter%5FDueck) (also from the BarCamp Work 4.0). It's worth watching! Here I have summarized the essential points for you:
Expected changes in the workplace due to digitalization and co.
Social skills will gain importance to collaborate effectively in multicultural, digitally connected teams.
Every job will lose its routine component. The difficult part of the job remains. For example, the profession of tax consultant: the routine task of data entry will be lost. The complex activity remains: advising on a contract with many dependencies and specificities in contract law.
Skills and ability to act are more important than degrees and grades. It is not the question: “What did you learn?” but “What can you do?” and “What have you done?” that matters.
The new world of work will demand new educational and training goals.
If you want to know even more precisely, you can find the complete lecture (40 minutes) here.
It will show whether these predictions will come true and what changes will accompany them. In my opinion, training measures will increasingly aim to prepare employees for this dynamic, unpredictable, and rapidly changing work environment. In this case, it means developing skills in various areas. The training agenda in the world of work 4.0 could include the following topics: social skills, problem-solving strategies, process and system understanding, understanding human information processing, learning to learn, work-life balance, and stress management. With the changes in the working world, the requirement profile of Trainer 4.0 will also change.
And this is how the requirements for Trainer 4.0 will look
The Trainer 4.0…
…accompanies the learning processes of participants over an extended period.
…ensures a high practical transfer of the learned skills.
…is a contact person for competence development.
…designs the learning experience and the learning environment for participants.
…works as an information curator and provides learning resources. The learner decides which information is useful at the workplace.
…supports groups/teams in learning.
…initiates reflection processes with the participants.
…ensures that learning takes place close to the working world.
Do you want to know how you can achieve these qualities specifically in your topic? Then describe your training to me in the comment (or via the contact form) and we will help you become Trainer 4.0 faster.
