Most important skills to thrive in 2030, do you have a plan to get them? StoH# 37


Hello !

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The World Economic Forum just released their Future of Jobs Report 2025 with an exploration of the main skills to develop to succeed in 2030 πŸ˜…! But here's the thing - while everyone is rushing to learn everything, let me show you how to be strategic and actually enjoy the learning journey.

Today you'll discover:

  • Which skills really matter (and why some popular ones don't)
  • A simple method to master new skills without overwhelm
  • Real examples from my coaching practice in healthcare innovation
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
- Brian Herbert"

Get comfortable for your 5 minutes of sparks to hack.

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✨ Spark

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Remember, the ability to learn is a skill (and the willingness to learn is a choice, but I guess if you are still reading this, you have the will πŸ˜…)

✏ The 5 Essential Skills for 2030

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Here are the top 5 skills the World Economic Forum identified : AI and big data, cybersecurity technology literacy, critical thinking, and resilience.

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So let me focus on the top 3 that all of us can master as they don't need any specific deep expertise (like cybersecurity for ex).

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✏ AIdaptive Skills

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This is the WEF's #3 Technology Literacy - I named it AIadaptive skills as it is more than being "literacy".

AIadaptive skills is about feeling in control when using generative AI, rather than being overwhelmed. It's like an astronaut’s helmβ€”something you carry with you to navigate our new environment.

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It helps you:

  • Identify where AI fits into your processes and workflows.
  • Choose the best AI tools for your needs.
  • Follow a clear framework and process to stay in control.

It means knowing how to integrate AI intentionally and for the benefit of humans, not technology, to improve soft and hard skills.

  • Soft Skills: AI can make you a better human: Preparing communication with senior leaders or a feedback for a team member.
  • Hard Skills : AI can Augment your hard skills : leverage it to learn 5 time faster a new expertise or to analyze data more effectively.

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✏ Leading Through Change (and be antifragile)

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This is the WEF's #5 Resilience & Agility. A big part of my systemic coaching sessions is about change. Some key areas I focus on include:

  • Integrating Generative AI into Processes in pharma
  • Adapting to EU HTA Policies in Access & Pricing .
  • Building a new innovation system in medTech.

So I would advise you to take the time to invest in team coaching to help you and your team "change"; this is never easy and takes time ;).

And build your antifragile mindset ! here is a previous edition on that

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✏ Creative Thinking

This is the WEF's #4. A core skill I nurture and train my coachees.

Let your mind wander! For that, you have to create white space.

Like a painter's blank canvas, this "white space" is an empty space. In our agenda, in our brain, in our body. So I would have no meetings at least one afternoon per month.

Read, sketch, reflect (and go to the sauna - this is my secret πŸ˜‰). You have to plan and protect it (this is not easy !! πŸ˜…); to be clear, this is not lazy!

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So how to learn? Over 10 years of coaching innovation and transformation projects, I see that people take the wrong approach: Too Big, Too Slow, Too Costly.

Let me show you how less is more.

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✨ Hack

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Remember when we learned to ride a bike? We didn't start by learning all the physics of balance, the history of cycling, AND trying to do tricks - we just started with staying upright!

Here's what works (tested with over 500 healthcare teams and their leaders)

✏ Choose ONE Skill

Choose One Skill, only one, and be obsessed: podcast, book, articles. You focus your attention on that. Only.

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✏ The LAS Method (Learn-Apply-Share)

This is my favorite framework (and yes, I use it with my teenagers too πŸ˜‰):

  • Learn: 20% of your time, online is perfect for that
  • Apply: 60% of your time, practice it daily (even just 15 minutes) and build on small wins
  • Share: 20% of your time, share what you learned, and teach others.

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Favor cheap, short training vs. a long MBA ( the value of the MBA is more for networks to me).

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✏ Value Coaching Over Training

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Prioritize practitioner-trainers over pure theorists.

A practitioner coach can guide you through real exercises.

A trainer-consultant may explain concepts but lacks hands-on application.

I recently discussed business innovation in helathacre training for top 5 pharma companies: The two-day training led by consultants may provide theory but lacks real-world coaching from practitioners who apply these skills daily.

So you train, but you don't change the way you work.

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That’s it for today! How did you find the visuals of this edition?


What's up with me?

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I have been busy writing the content of my new coaching program, ScaleU with AI, to help senior employees and entrepreneurs build their AIdapative skills. It was challenging with 2 kids with the flu at home for the past 3 weeks... But now this is better πŸ˜…. If you are curious, the program is here; the next cohort starts on 31st March.

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Let me know if you liked this edition or if you tried these tips. I respond to every person who writes to me!

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Spark to Hack ✧

Hi, I'm AurΓ©lie, a professional coach and facilitator, specialized in innovation in healthcare and sustainability. I enable team and organization leaders in healthcare to increase the speed between an ideas discovery and significant investments. I bring creativity and disciplined methods with contagious energy and a smile as well as a team and system coaching approach. I have a No BlaBla, No Bulshit, and no Blingbling values. I am a entrepreneur / working Mum aware that I only have one life, so I want to make the most of it!

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