Dr. Muhammad Fahim Khan
In this contemporary era, you may unlearn what you learned because you learned it long ago; therefore, you either forget it or it becomes irrelevant, so you straight bypass it. However, when it is revolutionized, you will relearn it because it will look more like what we have now. The jobs we will need in five years could change and look different from those we have now. The new jobs or the old jobs could require a unique skill set, or we need to retrain to remain in the positions we had jobs-wise.
Consequently, schools should encourage students to modify their learning habits to gain more knowledge than the curriculum demands. Challenge yourself and go above and beyond to obtain more skills because people wouldn’t be where they are without going beyond; imagine if Usain Bolt had never decided to challenge himself and stayed the same, the fastest man in the world. First, you must go above and beyond to obtain more skills to remain relevant in the market.
Would you ask why? Something one would want to consider is always challenging oneself and getting skills to help one stay relevant in the marketing field. For example, agile skills help with problem-solving, analytical thinking, critical thinking, and effective communication.
Don’t be in the same place you’ve always been; do more, get more skills, and get relevant.
The power that people don’t know they could have was to be able to associate very well with others while reasoning with them. The internet has improved learning because of how easy online platforms have made it. Nowadays you can do work and school all at the same time. You can work during the day, do school in the evening and still have time for family.
In contrast, many places online let you take courses or have a few methods you can take online to earn some certificate or micro-credentials on the skills that you have learned throughout the program.
The badges you earn and certificates you receive through digital learning are more valuable and carry more weight than grades on a transcript that students make in traditional school. Also, digital learning platforms do not have to be taken consecutively, which means people can up-skill themselves in just one area. Furthermore, having interdisciplinary knowledge will make understanding different things that benefit them easier. Interdisciplinarity allows you to stick to what you learned at college or university and enables you to learn more and collaborate with others.
Don’t forget, too, that things change! Artificial intelligence was already introduced some years ago. Still, people don’t take it seriously, but now, with the popularity of ChatGPT or any AI, people are slowly embracing it. People use AI to create presentations, write codes, create content, etc. If you want to stay in the leading position, modern knowledge about how to work those AI tools can also be beneficial.
In addition, incorporating change is necessary for companies and brands to prosper. Moreover, most organizations need to develop along with ongoing updates in trends, which require changes in procedures, systems and routines.
A company cannot go on to succeed in doing the same things. It must embrace the change and move with the new trends. For instance, someone could conveniently automate with tools like auto responders email marketing, content posting, adding products to their e-commerce sites and much more. Consequently, organizations should consider purchasing search technologies like Zapier or Notion to drive collaboration and automation. The same goes for embracing online webinars. Web conferencing tools include Zoom, GoTo Meeting, Webex, and Microsoft Teams. This way, you can still progress on a project and have different people in different places.
Additionally, a company can refuse a significant technological change due toits investmentin the existing technologies. You may find that a company may not want to adapt to a new technology that will simplify some of their work because they have invested a lot in equipment like computer systems. Once that is done, companies may find themselves having technology debt because while they have not moved forward with technology, their participation in the same industry may have moved forward, which ultimately has a competitive advantage over the parts of the same industry. Investing in splendid systems and applications will simplify the work, keep them in the market, and increase productivity. Unlearning is crucial as it helps create space for other important information or technologies.
Numerous endeavors can benefit profoundly from surrendering and acclimating to different insights to help them abridge work structure.
Moreover, you can further differentiate yourself by persuading others about the importance of making the change. For example, if there is a specific technology or resource you feel is necessary, you can try to write a claim to convince others why making the change is essential. Furthermore, if stakeholder support is there and a written, undeniable reason for the change, it will be easier for the company to accept new technologies.
Individuals will also need encouragement to be innovative in the workforce’s ecosystem. If something has always been done a certain way and you know how it can be done differently, it will be essential to let that be known, and you might even play a big part in the change.
Not all change is good, but sometimes it may just be something you need to open your eyes. Furthermore, you must favor indefinite learning, for you won’t be able to get it all at once. It is important to inspire others to welcome change and why this ideal is irrelevant if more than 50 percent in your county agree with you.
Transformation does not occur instantly; thereby, embracing another will require patience. Taking cognizance of the term artificial intelligence (AI), the mutative process made an upgrading in the methodologies in AI, from machine learning algorithms to the few that are now autonomous.With this learning, people gain insight into what they are learning. It is also essential when we use all of these technologies to understand what technology is and what cannot be taken away from it all. Just because company A and company B use does not mean you need to as well.
First, thoroughly examine what the technology is trying to do and how it will benefit and engage stakeholders. Also, look at your existing systems and processes to determine how best to integrate the new tech. Using Complex Sentences is highly important to have a strategy for introducing the technology because people will need someone to familiarize them with those kinds of things to avoid the technology’s complexity.
Adhering to this will require making a suitable investment to train the different people to internalize the workings of the technology being introduced. Again, suppose new technology is being developed in a company. In that case, there is a need to integrate it in phases to establish if it is working before committing the whole company. Revision is needed when everything is said and done, and changes should be made.
Unlearning requires effort to forget your knowledge and see it is necessary to learn new things or issues.
However, some societal ideas appear to be intolerant of those who bring different opinions from what the society holds. In such a case, a need arises to stand out as distinct and try to convince others of the benefits of the change. For the company, this could cause a chance of a lifetime and could even increase the benefits.
Additionally, we shall increase the difficulty of our minds by incorporating present technology and training our minds to be open to everything to increase our capacity to embrace more things and challenge our believings.—The author is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, MY University, Islamabad
