Shocks, knocks and skill building blocks: creating resilient workers

It’s estimated that 2.6 million people will be unemployed by Spring. Meanwhile, the pandemic has sped up digital adoption by five years.

In a world increasingly reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and facing a prolonged economic shock, digital skills are crucially important.

Most people will need digital skills to gain or remain in employment as all sectors embrace and accelerate digital business models and ways of working; but those in lower skilled jobs at risk of automation are often likely to face barriers that make it harder to acquire them: lower confidence, less time, and lower level learning skills. They are also less likely to receive support from their employer.

Join Good Things Foundation, Nesta and Accenture to learn more about a new report - 'Shocks, knocks and skill building blocks: creating resilient workers and organisations'.

Throughout 2020, over 900 people were supported through the Future Proof : Skills for Work programme.

At this event, you will learn about how our pioneering model - put to the test during the pandemic - helped people with low digital skills develop confidence, resilience and even find jobs.

You'll also have the chance to hear about Nesta's latest work on FutureFit and Mapping Causeways.

Speakers include;

- Hayley Nelson, Learn For Life Enterprise, Sheffield

- Dr Alice Mathers and Joe Chambers, Good Things Foundation

- Linda Wickstrom, Corporate Citizenship Grant Giving and Engagement Lead, Accenture UK

- Olivia Chapman/Chrystalla Kapetaniou and Dr Cath Sleeman - Nesta