Welcome to the October 19, 2005 issue of The Total View

Published by Success Performance Solutions, Written by Ira S. Wolfe

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What's Inside:

1.  Hyperjobs: A Whole New Kind of Work

People used to have a job; now they're frequently going to have two or more "jobs" at once, with multiple streams of compensation. They used to work for someone else; increasingly they will work for themselves. They will rely heavily on hyper-human skills.

In the years ahead, expect to see more job elimination than job creation. Tens of millions of new, better jobs will be created. They won't be jobs you'll look for in the employment section of the newspaper or online job boards but jobs that need doing.

Hyperjobs are a whole new kind of work. They leverage people's unique, noncomputerizable skills and abilities. Hyper-human workers will turn the tables on the forces of automation by leveraging their nonautomatable qualities and taking charge of those tasks that automation handles better.

The key, vital quality of a hyperjob is that it can only be performed by an entitity that is alive and "acts" alive. In other words, act like a robot and you'll likely be replaced by one.

Hyperjobs will be based on five key "aliveness skills" and three supporting or enabling ones. The five key skills are:

1. Discovery, finding the "why" of things in science business and daily life.
2. Creativity, fashioning something new in one's head.
3. Implementation, making the fruits of creativity in the world.
4. Influence, interacting with others to inspire, direct, or empower.
5. Physical Action, interacting with things or the body in mindful ways.

The enabling skills, which power the five key aliveness skills, are:

1. Basic mental skills, such as perception, classification, and emotional release.
2. Symbolic thinking and interpretation, including language, mathematics, and scientific notation.
3. Responsibility, including global consciousness, ethics and religious sense.

(Source: The Futurist, November-December 2005

2. Perfect Labor Storm Alerts # 462 to # 463

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Fact #462:  More than 40 percent of the U.S. labor force will reach traditional retirement age by the end of the decade. (Source: Conference Board)

Fact #463: The number of U.S. workers between ages 55 and 64 will grow 51 percent to 25 million by 2012, meaning the fastest-growing portion of the work force is the one at most risk of retiring soon. At the same time, the number of workers between ages 35 and 44 is expected to shrink by 7 percent.(Source: Wall Street Journal, Sept 20, 2005)

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4.  50 Activities for Developing Emotional Intelligence

A collection of activities perfect for skill-building on self-awareness and control, empathy, social expertness, personal influence, mastery of vision and more.

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5.    Manager's Pocket Guide to Recruiting the Workforce of the Future

By Bruce Tulgan

In today’s downsized, restructured, and reengineered workplace, there is a tremendous pressure to recruit high-quality people in order to get more work and better work done with fewer people. Through best practice, worksheets, and checklists, Recruiting the Workforce of the Future will show you how to develop and implement effective hiring solutions for today’s workplace.

Employers should no longer recruit for the long term, but to get the job done today, tomorrow and next week. Give your organization the advantage in quickly and effectively recruiting the talent you need.

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Ira S. Wolfe. 2005 - All Rights Reserved. Reprints and other distribution by permission only.

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