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In 2030, what will our jobs look like? What skills will be "hot"? How will employees and employers engage with each other? What will leaders do? How do team members connect? And what about 'employee experience'? How do people build their careers sustainably in 2030? Are we evolving toward more flex workers?

Our knowledge partner Janssen Pharmaceutica presented these questions and many others to us as part of a strategic talent exercise 2030. Based on our current insights and storylines, we started working on a future forecast. This resulted in five concrete innovation slopes, based on 5 central themes within our Competence Center 'Next Generation Work'.

Doing the minimum at work: it is a trend. For employers, it is a signal that they should take a more critical look at their policy, says AMS Professor Ans De Vos. Below you will find her open letter to employers, which appeared as an opinion piece in the newspaper De Standaard.

In 2030, what will our jobs look like? What skills will be "hot"? How will employees and employers engage with each other? What do we see a leader doing? How do team members connect? And what about 'employee experience'? How do people build their careers sustainably in 2030? Are we evolving toward more flex workers?

These and other questions were presented to us by our knowledge partner Janssen Pharmaceutica as part of a strategic talent exercise 2030. Based on our current insights and storylines, we set to work on a future forecast. This resulted in five concrete innovation slopes, based on 5 central themes within our Competence Center 'Next Generation Work'.

What will our jobs look like in 2030? What competencies will be "hot"? How will employees and employers engage with each other? What do we see a leader doing? How do team members connect? And what about 'employee experience'? How do people build their careers sustainably in 2030? Are we evolving toward more flex workers?

These and other questions were posed to us by our knowledge partner Janssen Pharmaceutica as part of a 2030 strategic talent exercise. Based on our current insights and storylines, we set to work on a future forecast. The result is five concrete innovation slopes, based on 5 central themes within our Competence Center 'Next Generation Work'. One of these themes is compentences that really matter.

Since 2007, banks and brokers are no longer allowed to sell a financial product without knowing someone's risk profile and having assessed his knowledge of the financial markets and his experience on the stock exchange. That guideline has been tightened up on August 2 with new rules, in which bankers or brokers are obliged to gauge someone's need for sustainable investments. Banks use the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria, a set of standards for a company's behavior used to screen potential investments.

Research has shown that diversity and inclusion in the workplace can boost innovation by as much as 20% (Bourke, 2016). Companies like Sodexo, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal and Microsoft are lauded for their efforts to anchor diversity and inclusion in their culture and practices. But how do you define inclusion? Is it enough to make sure that more people from marginalized groups can participate in the status quo? Or do we need to alter the status quo, together?

In a rapidly evolving world, companies must continue to innovate to survive. As a result, they expect their employees to embrace change. But how do you get that to happen?
In just about every management book on digital or sustainable transformation, you'll bump into design thinking in the "how to" section. No wonder, because design thinking is the ideal approach for developing innovative capacity, both at the level of individual employees and teams and organizations.

(This webinar is in Dutch.)

With summer just around the corner, the annual news stories about hot weather and heat waves are coming back on. Research shows that due to climate change, extreme temperatures and heat waves will increase in frequency, intensity and duration. In 2022, Europe experienced a hot, dry summer.

Great news for heat-lovers chasing the sun, but not for workers in the workplace or outside in a yard. Hot weather affects our health and productivity, but for whom is the risk greatest and what can you do about it?

Widespread societal and economic transformation will be needed to reach a sustainable future. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reflect very well on the global challenges we face. But for many businesses, the SDGs are a topic of discussion rather than a strategic element.

In this white paper Prof. Dr Wayne Visser and Jan Beyne talk about a sustainable strategy needed for businesses to survive.