New skills and new ways of learning | Features - Exhibition World

tfconnect’s Trevor Foley, Managing Director of tfconnect says, the Covid experience has brought into sharp contrast who is prepared to make the most of the new online-only landscape to learn and network.

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With the world having changed shape back in March, we were all forced into a different daily schedule. Not the usual busy, busy, busy deadline-driven schedule.

A daily deluge of emails, meetings, travel, phone calls, texts and social media engagement, previously, always meant that the non-deadline driven activity of ‘active learning’ was always pushed off the agenda… well, mine at least!...

My conversations with clients over the lockdown period have all centred on the need for their people to learn a long list of new skills – some around virtual environments, data analyst/ science skills, some from a ‘safety’ angle, working from home, managing a remote team, running a show with fewer resources, selling cross-media – the list goes on. Here’s two things that will undoubtedly help. Both come from a perspective of an adage that I’ve always believed in, one that has worked for me in my career – it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
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Source: Exhibition World