Business

In 2011, Leadership skills for the year 2020 were predicted as being an agile learner, digitally proficient, adaptable, communicator and have a global mindset.

How might we help ensure these skills are being developed?

Customer Service is a skill that all Industries feel are important for their employees to acquire. How might we help encourage youth to develop customer service skills?

Accessibility is about making things accessible to all people, offering products and services that are usable by people with the widest possible range of abilities, whether they have a disability or not.

How might you support a local business in your community to make it more accessible?

Equity is described as “freedom from bias or favoritism”. (Merriam-Webster). What inequities do you see in the Business sector and how might we help to ensure equity in this sector?

The United Nations has categorized the many challenges we face globally and has developed 17 Global Sustainable Development goals.

How might the Business sector be able to best support one or more of these goals?

Non-profit organizations make money to further a social or political cause, or to provide a free service that people need. (Cambridge Dictionary).

What companies support needs for free and how might we encourage more philanthropy within the Business sector?

Entrepreneurs are considered “agents of change”. They have the ability to “change the way we live and work. Their innovations may improve standards of living, create jobs and contribute to a growing economy”. (Investopedia)

How might you be an “agent of change”?

Expanded use of internet shopping creates challenges for small and medium sized businesses to maintain cyber security.

How might we provide further support for small business owners to help keep their customers and themselves safe from cyber crime?

Our world is constantly changing to develop more efficient and safer ways to complete tasks by incorporating robotics systems.

(Robotics in Business)

How can we incorporate robotics to support this sector while maintaining employment opportunities?

Work-life Balance is very personal and will vary based on one’s priorities. What suggestions would you make to support individuals in this sector to maintain a Work-life balance?

Coding has many definitions beyond computer language.

7 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Learn to Code

How might we help ensure these skills are being developed?