Skills for Mars

What has work been? What is work now? What could work look like? Control to Integration | Telling to Learning | Competing to Cooperating | Silos to Coalescence Every time I talk to Stelio Verzera - I feel energized, I learn something new, my mid opens to new ideas and challenges. Stelio’s view of the world of work is expressed differently. He is not alone in looking at things from a systemic, ecoistic point of view, but the way he is bringing this into the world is unique. This conversation takes us to many places – from anti-fragility to surfing emergence and rediscovering ourselves. We look at technology, polycentricity and sense-making. We talk about the future, how the world of work will move from control to integration, from telling to learning, from competing to cooperating, from silos to coalescence across boundaries. Stelio Verzera is an Evolution Coach and the Co-Founder of Cocoon Pro. Cocoon Pro Cocoon Pro is a last-generation company devoted to fostering real value creation in the world-wide work ecosystem. It’s been designed to be effective, emergent, open and adaptive in the journey of generating and scaling-up mastery. Her customers are organizations longing for deep evolution in order to stay relevant, resilient and resonant. Here you can find out more about: - Stelio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiver/ - Cocoon Pro: -https://cocoon-pro.com/ -https://medium.com/mozaic-stories/a-story-you-need-to-know-299a72d63f5 - Care4Live: https://care4.live/ - Ohana Meet-up: ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future! ❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars (subscribe for free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

🚦 Being Boring is a luxury! 🚦 Capturing attention, with the cleverness of an advertiser - is a useful skill now and in the future. My guests on this episode, two brilliant humans: ★ WILL AWDRY – Copywriter, writing coach & free-roving creative director who has looked after brands like BP, Kodak and Mercedes (https://willawdry.blog/) ★ ADRIAN DOCEA – the Co-founder & Innovative Director of the Heraldist, an agency that helps start-ups find and express their unique brand, product and value propositions (https://www.heraldist.com/) We believe that “capturing attention” is an essential skill in a very busy and noisy world. Not only for brands and companies, but for each of us. We will talk about: 🚩 LinkedIn differentiation 🚩 Using tools and frameworks to exercise our creative muscle 🚩 Creativity through language mastery 🚩 The awesome copywriting masterclass that the Herladist and Will are running together (https://www.heraldist.com/stbrendan/masterclass/will-awdry-copywriting) To get in touch with Will and Adrian, just reach out to them on LinkedIn: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-awdry-a30820a/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriandocea/ ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (subscribe for free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

I know a lot of people who had to #reskill and carve out new career pathways for themselves. It is very difficult! When the education is there, employers are not. When the employers are willing, governmental support is missing. We have tons of amazing free online education. But it is not recognized by businesses. There are incredible people who took the leap, learned something totally new. They need work experience to get started, but an internship is only for “fresh” graduates. And while we are complaining about talent shortages, we are not really willing to employ someone who has so drastically changed their career. Let someone else try first… Today’s podcast is about #reskilling, #education and #meaningfulcareers. My guests are two amazing people who are passionate about changing the world of work. They provide education, identify career pathways and support the transition of those who are experiencing major career shifts: ➔Jamie Albers, the co-founder of Mento (https://www.mento.co/about) ➔David Timis, the Global Communications Leader at Generation (https://www.generation.org/) To get in touch with them: - Jamie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiealbers/ - David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidtimis/ We will talk about: ➔ The impact this past one and a half year has had on the job market ➔ The harsh realities of career transitioning for the re-skilled ➔ Transforming education to allow for multiple and diverse pathways throughout our lives ➔ The 4Cs needed to succeed in the world of work ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (subscribe for free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

➔ Can you envision "Zero Trauma Transformation" for your organization? ➔ How and when would you engage in deep change, without the need to do so? ➔ Once successful, how do you avoid the "Resilience Paradox"? My guest today is Liisa Välikangas, professor of Innovation Management & Leadership at the Technical University of Denmark. This time, our resilience quest, is to learn to run before the lion starts chasing us and to do so with as little pain as possible. The journey is not predefined and there is no magic wand. So, we will talk about - Rehearsal for change - Building cognitive flexibility - Scenarios and experimentation - Courage and serendipity - Jesters, the Resilience Paradox, and the ideal “Zero Trauma Transformation” are also part of the discussion. Through this podcast, we are bringing Resilience Research and Practice closer to you. If you enjoy the content - don’t forget to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and share your thoughts in the comment section below. Your views and your feedback are extremely important to the development of the podcast. Enjoy our conversation!

Today we will see the world of work through the eyes of the world’s first industrial philosopher– Cristina di Giacomo. Following a successful corporate career, Cristina spent over 10 years studying the ideas and practices of the greatest thinkers. She has bottled up the magic of their philosophy and is enabling leaders to find and use their wisdom in the world of work. We will talk about: ➜ Wisdom as the ultimate skill that will drive resilient careers ➜ The 4-step process of achieving wisdom ➜ Various practices of wisdom ➜ Her book – WiseUp at work! You can find Cristina here: https://cristinadigiacomo.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinadigiacomo/ And her book: https://cristinadigiacomo.com/wiseupatwork ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

➜ Is there more to Autonomous Vehicles than a transportation solution? ➜ How does this innovation affect Systemic, Societal Change? ➜ And what does resilience have to do with all this? Roland Kupers is going to take us on a captivating journey of climate change, complex systems and their resilience. Roland Kupers is a theoretical physicist by university training and he has spent the first 20+ years of his career working for major corporations. Since 2011, he is acting as an advisor for Cities, NGOs, Think Tanks, Corporations and Government on topics related to Energy Transition, Complexity and Resilience He has published widely, including in HBR, on Project Syndicate and co-authored: ➜The Essence of Scenarios – Learning from the Shell Experience (with A. Wilkinson – Amsterdam 2014) ➜Complexity and the Art of Public Policy (with D. Colander – Princeton 2014) ➜A Climate Policy Revolution (Harvard 2020) Roland was a co-author of a report commissioned by the German Government on a New Growth Path for Europe. In 2013 he was the Director for the inception phase of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. For those who are interested in contacting Roland: - https://www.rolandkupers.com/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-kupers-3575734/ Here is a direct link to Roland's latest book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972124 ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

We have chosen HYBRID as the new way of work. HYBRID is challenging and faces the risk of inheriting the worst of the two worlds of work. HYBRID opens up concerns about Power - Fairness - Trust - Performance. Can we address them? Mark Mortensen (INSEAD) is joining me today, for a 2nd round of discussions, exactly 12 months after we have recorded together an episode of the Making Remote Work series. We go through the research that has been conducted this past year and talk about hybridity – power and fairness, trust, performance and adaptation. Most importantly, Mark will share his insights and tips so that the hybrid world we are walking towards will be successful for both individuals and organizations For those who want to access Mark's latest publications: ➔ https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-your-team-members-lonely/ ➔ https://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/teams-in-evolution-and-revolution-after-the-pandemic-15876 ➔ https://hbr.org/2021/02/making-the-hybrid-workplace-fair ➔ https://hbr.org/2021/02/wfh-is-corroding-our-trust-in-each-other Mark Mortensen is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His area of expertise is organisational collaboration, with an emphasis on two increasingly prevalent ways of organising that do not fit traditional models of team dynamics: globally distributed (virtual) and project-based work. Mark's research has been recognised by the academic community through awards including the William H. Newman Award, Organisational Behaviour Division Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, and Runner-up OCIS Division Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management; and the Best Paper Award Finalist nomination by the Interdisciplinary Network of Groups Researchers. His research has been published in top peer-reviewed academic journals including the Organization Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, and International Journal of Conflict Management. His works has been featured in multiple edited volumes, practitioner journals such as the MIT-Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review Online, and IESE Insight; and in media outlets including the Economist, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail. ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

➜Are there facets to Organizational Resilience? ➜Can we learn how to proactively adapt to sudden changes? The answer is YES! And there is a Framework, a Tool and a Methodology to do so! My guest on this episode is Heidi Askin, the Director of Culture and Transformation at Bel, an INSEAD EMBA graduate and a passionate of Resilience and Complexity Science. Heidi set out to study Organization Resilience a few years ago and her research led to: ✔️ A framework of Organizational Resilience ✔️ A description of the 8 axes on which Organizational Resilience can be built (inclusive of strategic, operational, social and human components) ✔️ The concrete factors that can be used to assess the current level of resilience All of these, including a case study, will be discussed in the episode. We hope this will provide a useful, practical tool to start building your Organizational Resilience today! For those interested in reaching out to Heid: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-konzen-askin-5453233/ ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

LET'S START A CONVERSATION! I am looking forward to your comments! - What is the change that you would like to see in the world? - What would you do make this change happen? For this episode, my guest is one of the though leaders on the topic of Social Impact - Samira Khan. 👉 Samira is the Senior Manager of Global Impact Engagement at salesforce.org. 👉 She is a changemaker and intrapreneur, who deeply believes that unlocking human potential lies in true empowerment. 👉 With over 15 years of experience across continents and sectors, Samira is committed to learning & listening, using holistic models to drive systems change. 💬 You can find Samira here: Twitter: @samiraakhan Clubhouse: @samirakhan Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samiraakhan/ 📢 Join Samira and me as we discuss about: ✔️ managing and measuring social impact ✔️ the role of technology in empowering changemakers ✔️ where you can start today to add social value – as an individual or as an organization ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

Today we are looking through the lenses of sociology and psychology to answer two questions: 1. How can organizational culture act as a shock absorber & help companies rebound from adversities? 2. What makes individuals resilient? Together with Huggy Rao, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford Graduate School of Business, we will: ✅ Discuss how "cultural protections" enable people and organizations respond to shocks ✅ Provide examples on how to activate the "best self" in each individual and how this will lead to increased resilience ✅ Emphasize the need to move from "a room called fear" to a "room called hope" for both individuals and organizations ✅ Moving away from Planning towards building the CARE-SHARE-DARE muscle in Organizations 🔷Professor Rao studies collective action within organizations and in markets. His research and by implication, his teaching, revolves around scaling up mobilization, innovation, and talent in organizations. 🔷His most recent book, co-authored with Bob Sutton of the School of Engineering at Stanford, is "Scaling Up Excellence". The book is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller and was included in the best business books to read in 2014 by Financial Times, Inc Magazine, Amazon, Forbes, Washington Post and the Library Journal. 🔷His research has been published in journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. He is also the author of “Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation”, Princeton University Press. 2009. ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

Ordinary people achieving the extraordinary! This is an inspiring story showing how curiosity can be the spark for systemic educational transformation. Agastya International Foundation has started an educational movement in India driven by a "simple" mission - educating children by fuelling their curiosity and creativity. In 2020, through extreme conditions, they not only managed to reach the 15 million children in remote villages, but they managed to bring education to a different level. Seemingly ordinary people, a great deal of personal initiative, passion for their calling, care, friendship and true leadership - have transformed an organization into a movement. This is a must watch episode of the Building Resilience series hosting: - Ramji Raghavan - Founder and Chairman of Agastya International Foundation - Phanish Puranam - Professor of Strategy and Organizational Design at INSEAD To work with and learn more about Agastya International Foundation: - https://www.agastya.org/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramji-raghavan-26736b3/ ❤️Help spread education for a resilient future!❤️ Support the Skills for Mars podcast here: ➜www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ (free) ➜www.podhero.com (subscription fees are shared with content creators) ➜www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ (donations) - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars www.skillsformars.com

Half of the world today still does not have access to the internet! Understanding and using some of the latest technologies is out of their reach. Inclusive, transparent, and just AI solutions cannot be achieved without their contribution. My guest today is Elena Ardelean, a social change maker, the founder of AI for Development Agency. AI for Development Agency (AI4DA.com) is a Global NGO whose mission is to advance AI literacy to the unconnected and most vulnerable communities globally. We will dive deep into AI education, what AIDA does to support; the role NGOs, businesses, and governments play in enabling tech awareness for everyone. For those who want to reach out to Elena and work with AI4DA.com: 📎 https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenaardelean/ 📎 https://ai4da.com/ 📎 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AI4DA/ 📎 Twitter: https://twitter.com/ai4development 📎 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ai4development/ Support the Skills for Mars podcast? www.podhero.com www.youtube.com/skillsformars​ www.skillsformars.com​ or www.patreon.com/skillsformars​ - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars

Purpose-driven organizations thrive! Purpose & culture are anchors. They provide a stable platform from which organizations can drive strategic and structural change and successfully face adversities. ⛳️ What is Organizational Resilience? ⛳️ What are thriving organizations doing differently? ⛳️ How can we activate purpose in organizations? ⛳️ What are the enables of resilience? ⛳️ How do we connect individual and organizational purpose and resilience? ⛳️ Thriving through the 2020 crisis ⛳️ Courage as an enable of resilience. These are all questions that Professor Ranjay Gulati will answer in the 1st episode of the new Building Resilience series. Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms. Professor Gulati was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist, Financial Times, and The Economist Intelligence Unit have listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. He has been a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and a Sloan Foundation Fellow. His research has been published in leading journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, American Journal of Sociology, Strategic Management Journal, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, strategy + business, and the Financial Times. Professor Gulati sits on the editorial board of several leading journals and was a co-editor of a special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on Alliances and Strategic Networks in 2000 and another special issue on Organizational Architecture that appeared in 2012. He also guest-edited a special issue of the Academy of Management Journal on Relational Pluralism in 2014. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars

What happens when multiple shocks hit us? Have we reflected on 2020 and what have we learned? Have we identified the cracks in our systems? How can we enable ourselves to be better prepared for the next crisis? ⛳️Uncertainty and complexity are states of nature. ⛳️We will never have full knowledge. ⛳️There are no templates to tell us exactly what to do. ⛳️We will always make mistakes. By acknowledging the above, we allow ourselves to experiment, place early bets, fail fast, and try again. We will acquire the missing information. We will figure out where the holes are and will be able to think ahead. Today, my guests are Rajshree Agarwal and Constance Helfat. RAJSHREE AGARWAL is the Rudolph Lamone Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy and Director of the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland. Rajshree studies the evolution of industries, firms, and individual careers, as fostered by the twin engines of innovation and enterprise. Rajshree’s scholarship uses an interdisciplinary lens to provide insights on strategic innovation for new venture creation and for firm renewal. She routinely publishes in leading journals in strategy and entrepreneurship. An author of more than 60 studies, her research has been cited more than 10,000 times, received numerous best paper awards, and funded by grants from various foundations, including the Kauffman Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. She is currently the co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has previously served in co-editor and senior editor roles at Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Organization Science respectively. Rajshree is a senior contributor at Forbes, providing insights for leading purposeful lives, strategy, and innovation. She has been featured in major media outlets including the Washington Post, USA Today, Time, and the Baltimore Sun, and has appeared in several video interviews and podcasts. Her op-eds have had over 100,000 reads, and her conversation with David Rubin on “The Rubin Report” drew approximately 25,000 views. Agarwal’s ability to put complex thoughts into clear terms led one media outlet to describe her as “an economist who makes things understandable.” CONSTANCE HELFAT is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy and Senior Associate Dean for Research Innovation at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Professor Helfat’s research focuses on strategic change, with an emphasis on firm capabilities, technological innovation, and top executives. She has published widely in leading academic journals and has written and edited three academic books. Professor Helfat is a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society, received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management, is a Foundations Scholar of the Knowledge and Innovation Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and was awarded the Viipuri Prize for outstanding achievements in strategy research and an honorary doctorate from the Lappeenranta University of Technology. She is currently a co-editor of the Strategic Management Journal and has served in editorial roles at Management Science and Organization Science. She also serves on the editorial boards of other academic journals. Welcome to a new episode of Building Resilience the podcast that hosts some of the most brilliant minds who have studied resilience or have tremendous experience in navigating ever-changing waters. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars

We keep hearing the phrase: “this is the new normal” and the subsequent question – is your organization ready to face it? ⛳️But what is this new normal and what should we be prepared for? ⛳️What is the mindset that will make us resilient in this new world of unprecedented disruptions? ⛳️How should we deal with the increasing complexity of your organization and its environment? ⛳️How do we motivate our people to fight multiple, consecutive, and even overlapping fights at our side? Today, my guest is Costas Markides, the Chair of Strategic Leadership at London Business School Costas is recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on strategy and innovation. His work explores how companies can create a culture of continuous innovation and the role that individual managers play in making a company more innovative. His forthcoming book – Organizing for the New Normal – explores the question: “How do you prepare the organization to respond to continuous and overlapping disruptions or one disruption after another in a short period of time?” Welcome to a new episode of Building Resilience the podcast that hosts some of the most brilliant minds who have studied resilience or have tremendous experience in navigating ever-changing waters. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars www.youtube.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars

Confinement. Isolation. Mental Fatigue. We feel like rebelling the system. Even conspiracy theories seem tempting. At the end of last year, I had the great opportunity to talk to Marc Jurblum – a psychiatrist and an expert in the “Psychology of Isolated Environments”. His passion is to study and find solutions to the exact problems we are all facing today. Join us today for a discussion on Mental Health in Confined spaces. We will discuss: 📌 The effects of the spaces we live in on reducing stress 📌 The Savannah Hypothesis 📌 The lessons we can use from astronauts living in space 📌 Actionable advice to increase our mental resilience For those who want to reach out to Marc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcjurblum/ Here are the books and articles mentioned during our discussion: 📎 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319059297 📎 https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2020/14/got-covid-19-cabin-fever-learn-from-astronauts/ If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast: www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars

📍 Is today’s cleverness good enough for tomorrow’s crisis? 📍 What can we learn from evolutionary biology to drive organizational resilience? 📍 Will remote work become a bottleneck for innovative exploration? 📍 What are the powers of experimentation and pivoting in complex systems? 📍 How does a mindset of skepticism and renewal keep us resilient? Welcome to a new episode of the unique Building Resilience series! This episode brings on an eye-opening discussion that will give you the opportunity to reflect on our organizations from a different angle than you have done before – that of a complex living system. My guest is Daniel Levinthal - Professor of Corporate Strategy at Wharton School – the University of Pennsylvania and one of the most prominent management scholars. His research has been pivotal and answered questions of organizational adaptation and industry evolution, particularly in the context of technological change. His papers remain some of the highest cited papers in management and social sciences in general. I hope you find value in the discussion. If you do - the best way to support our work is by leaving comments Support the Skills for Mars podcast? www.youtube.com/skillsformars www.podhero,com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars

The Future is Now. How ready are we to travel to, set base, and inhabit a new planet? Rocket Boosters, Reusable Orbital Vehicles, Dragon, Perseverance & Curiosity. 2020 has been a year of intense discovery, innovation, and achievement in space travel. Technology seems to be getting close. Are we prepared? Who will be the people chosen to take on this amazing feat of strength? How are we training to face the long journey to the Red Planet? Mounir Alafrangy, NASA Analog Astronaut and Space Exploration Program Lead at MOSAIC ATM, and I have been chatting along the lines of our favorite subject – space travel. The focus is on analog missions and their contribution to learning more about us, the humans.🚀 What is the focus of analog missions? 🚀 How are the analog crews chosen and prepared? 🚀 Can we carry out complex tasks in confinement and isolation? 🚀 How do we solve conflicts in enclosed spaces? 🚀 What are the health implications? 🚀 Can A.I. help us predict difficult psychological moments? Grab a coffee and join the discussion! ❓ Do you believe we are ready for long-distance space travel? ❓ Would you like to try out an analog mission? ❓ How about a trip to the Moon or Mars? For those who want to reach out to Mounir: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mouniralafrangy/ If you want to find out about the pioneering work Mosaic ATM is carrying out: https://www.mosaicatm.com/. Support the Skills for Mars podcast? www.podhero.com www.skillsformars.com www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars

We all love stories! When we read a good story, we get drawn to it and become part of the character gang – we take sides and have opinions. Our brains release happiness chemicals that keep us craving more. Evolution has primed us for stories. We are inveterate producers and consumers of stories. 👉 What makes a good story? 👉 What is it that triggers someone to tell a story? 👉 How is our curiosity activated? 👉 What makes us listen? 👉 How do stories transform us? 👉 How can we use stories at work and in life? 👉 Is storytelling a skill for the future? 👉 What are the secrets of storytelling? Yannis Angelis will answer all these questions. Yannis is a Story Practitioner. His work is informed by the principles of Gestalt Therapy, Theory U, Narrative Work, Warm Data, Appreciative Inquiry, and the Art of Hosting. Yannis is the: ◊ Co-founder of Virtual Collaboration Works, a network of experts supporting people and organizations to develop a desired toolset, skillset, mindset, and heart-set for working online. ◊ Co-author of the "Transforming Organizations" and "Beyond Storytelling", 2 books that demonstrate how to work with story-based approaches for individual growth, community building, and organizational transformation. ◊ Co-initiator of the Virtual Listening Campus, a forum of listening artificers who dream of sparking a global listening movement by weaving science and practice of listening. ◊ Teaching online collaboration & Storytelling methodologies to groups of therapists, social workers, and organizational leaders. ◊ Designer of the “Lov-e & Car-e-osity™” model, a participatory process mainly for e-learning development serving a corporate digital transformation purpose. For those who want to reach out to Yannis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannis-angelis-b562837/ If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars For more information on Iulia Istrate: https://www.iuliaistrate.com/home

Are you ready to work remotely? RemotAbility. Assess, benchmark, and manage remote workplaces from one central hub. This week, on Starting Remote, we talk with Deepak Selvaratnam about RemotAbility, a tool built to help organizations and individuals understand if they are ready to enter the world of remote work. It is a legally aligned assessment, checklist & benchmark that can be easily turned into a series of action items. Deepak is the founder and co-developer of Snapshotz & RemotAbility (https://www.cxsnapshotz.com/s/remotability) Snapshotz is an online assessment and benchmarking tool for Contact Centres. Launched in 2009 Snapshotz is being employed by close to 3000 contact centers across Australasia, Africa, the Middle East, North America, Latin America, and China. RemotAbility is built on the Snapshotz platform and experience. A tool supporting organizations to understand their readiness for moving remotely Besides RemotAbility, Deepak is sharing with us: - His experience in working with more than 2800 contact centers around the world - The challenges these contact centers are facing in moving to remote work - Mental Health & Productivity when remote We hope this will be a useful tool for those of you who are looking to understand if you are able to move work remotely. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. To find out more about Deepak and to get in touch with him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-selvaratnam-b8182a11/ STARTING REMOTE is a new Skills for Mars series. It is a follow-up to Making Remote Work, and it aims to bring forward insights and tools that will help companies and teams who are now starting their remote adventure. It also aims to collect unanswered questions about remote work and put them in front of researchers to focus their studies on supporting those going through the remote journey. If you are interested in the Future of Work - subscribe to Skills for Mars: www.youtube.com/skillsformars Support the Skills for Mars podcast? Please visit: https://www.skillsformars.com or https://www.patreon.com/skillsformars - LinkedIn @skills for mars - Facebook @skillsformars - Instagram @skillsformars - Twitter @skillsformars