Talent is in the eye of the beholder:Take charge of your learning, your reputation, and your worth

Iveta BrigisGoogle, Talent & Outreach

Time

Technological capability

We are living in a world of accelerating change.

Technology Doubling Time Law

Computing 1.5 years Moore’s Law

GPS- and video-equipped cellphones 1.5 years -

Hard and flash disks 2 years Kryder’s Law

Computer graphics (polygon production)

2 years Smith’s Law

Wired bandwidth 2 years Gilder’s Law

Network address density 2 years Poor’s Law

Flat panel display size 2 years Nishimura’s Law

Wireless bandwidth growth 2.5 years Cooper’s Law

Algorithmic efficiency 5-6 years Ebrahimi’s Law

Battery energy density 1% per year, 70 years

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TechnologyOnline reputation managersOnline privacy managersManagers of autonomous agents for hire (robots, AIs) or digital twinsTeachers for AI SystemsNano-(insert any job here)Quantum computer programmerInspectors and data auditors for the valuecosm

HealthcarePersonal longevity coaches

Finance/HR?

Nature of workProject staff brought together like movie production unitsIncreased telepresence (and telecommuting?)Expert networks and idea marketsAugmented humans in the workplaceIncreased customer knowledge baseIncreased quantification and dataPersonalized management and talent management

1. Make time to learn continuously

2. Build emotional intelligence and self-awareness

3. Maximize your strengths

4. Manage your energy effectively

5. Take ownership for your workplace engagement

Take charge of your learning and growth in a world of accelerating change

1. Make time to learn continuously

2. Build emotional intelligence and self-awareness

Social CompetencePersonal Competence

Social Awareness

Knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources, and intuitions• Emotional awareness• Accurate self-assessment• Self-confidence

Managing one’s internal states, impulses, and resources• Self-control, adaptability• Trustworthiness, conscientiousness• Innovation• Motivation (achievement drive,

commitment, initiative, optimism)

Awareness of others’ feelings, needs, and concerns• Empathy• Understanding of others; developing

others• Service orientation• Leveraging diversity• Political awareness

Adeptness at inducing desirable responses in others

• Influence, change catalyst• Communication• Conflict management• Leadership• Building bonds; collaboration &

cooperation; team capability building

Relationship Management Self-Management

Self-Awareness

Executing InfluencingRelationship Building

Strategic Thinking

Achiever Activator Adaptability Analytical

Arranger Command Developer Context

Belief Communication Connectedness Futuristic

Consistency Competition Empathy Ideation

Deliberative Maximizer Harmony Input

Discipline Self-Assurance Includer Intellection

Focus Significance Individualization Learner

Responsibility Woo Positivity Strategic

Restorative Relator

3. Maximize your strengths

4. Manage your energy effectively

Physical

Mental

Emotional

Spiritual

5. Take ownership of your workplace engagement

Gallup’s Q121) Do you know what is expected of you at work?

2) Do you have the materials and equipment to do your work right?

3) At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?

4) In the last 7 days, have you received recognition or praise for doing good work?

5) Does your supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about you as a

person?

6) Is there someone at work who encourages your development?

7) At work, do your opinions seem to count?

8) Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your job is

important?

9) Are your associates (fellow employees) committed to doing quality work?

10) Do you have a best friend at work?

11) In the last six months, has someone at work talked to you about your

progress?

12) In the last year, have you had opportunities to learn and grow?