TAKEAWAY
The HR Room Ep249 – How to Future-Skill Your Organisation
The HR Living Knowledge Lab
A practical toolkit for turning insight into action.
Explore quick workshops and exercises to help you and your team build adaptability, creativity and real-world resilience.
The Switch
Purpose:
Builds empathy, curiosity, and flexibility across silos. Shows how resilience grows when people understand and adapt to one another’s realities.Outcome:
A stronger sense of shared understanding and collective agility.
How it works:
Pair with someone from a different role or perspective (e.g. HR + Developer, Designer + Finance).Each person answers:
What challenge feels biggest from your seat right now?
What assumptions do others make about your work?
What’s one thing you wish others understood better?Then swap roles:
Re-express each other’s answers in first person, not word-for-word, but in your own language, as if you were them.This helps you see how your message lands, how others interpret it, and where assumptions start to form.Each Switch team share their findings with the group.
What Would Have to Be True?
Purpose:
Encourages curiosity, experimentation, and learning through exploration.
Turns uncertainty into forward motion by identifying small, testable actions.Outcome:
A set of practical “truth conditions” that bridge imagination and real-world learning.
How it works:
Begin with a bold statement, such as:
“Our region becomes a hub for human-centred innovation by 2030.”
“Our team doubles its creative output without burnout.”In small groups, explore:
What would have to be true for this to happen?
What’s already partly true today?
What could be practicle to test in the next 30 days to make one part of it truer?Follow up after 30 days with results, win or fail present to groups for feedback.
Creative Collisions Sprint
Purpose:
Unlocks creativity through constraints and collaboration.
Shows that innovation thrives in limitation and interaction.Outcome:
Fresh, tangible ideas and renewed energy for creative experimentation.
How it works:
Each team gets a prompt such as:
“How might we make our workplace more adaptable to future skills?”Add a playful constraints, e.g.
“No new budget.”
“Use only what’s already in the room.”
“Must involve another team/company/organisation.”Each individual rights down as many ideas as possible in five minutes, then share it with their team.
Each team then picks the two best ideas and refines them for presentation to everyone.
Discuss the ideas and speed at which it was achieved.
My Future-of-Work Map
Purpose:
Take a few minutes to step back and reflect on how your work is changing, what’s shifting around you. What still matters, and where your own strengths fit into the future.
This is a space to make sense of change, focus on what you can control, and reconnect with what gives your work purpose and direction.Outcome:
A simple one-page “future-of-work snapshot” that helps you:Recognise the external shifts shaping your role.
Identify the human strengths that remain constant.
Reconnect to what makes you contribution distinct.Define one actionable next step to stay adaptable and future-ready.
How it works:
Grab a coffee and a quite space to map out your personal future-of-work landscape using four simple prompts:What’s changing around me?
List 3–4 big shifts you notice in your role, industry or technology. (e.g. automation, AI tools, remote work, new skill demands.)What’s staying the same?
Identify the human abilities that still matter no matter how work changes. (e.g. empathy, creativity, judgement, collaboration.)What’s uniquely mine?
Capture 2–3 strengths, experiences or perspectives that make you valuable in this changing context.What’s my next micro-step?
Choose one small experiment or learning action you could try in the next month to stay future-ready:
A course, A conversation, A new habit, or a prototype idea.(The most important thing is to do something, however small it is)
Only action brings Information.