The Need for Technical Skills and How to Develop Them
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Hear what Mark Dorio, noted business coach, has to say about the need for technical skills and how to develop them
Baby boomers typically, are faced with a number of challenges. One would be just what I call the technical skills. And I don't mean just technology itself, but if you've been in any field that involves any technical, knowledge base, has changed quickly. And I think of people who I've worked with who have been with companies twenty, twenty-five years and they have to make a change either because they have decided to do it themselves or there's downsizing, etcetera. , find that their technical skills really need to be updated, even though they've been technically very proficient where they were in Company A, going to a new company, it may involve a whole new set of skills, so I find that technical skills definitely have to be updated.
In terms of how you update your skills, community colleges have great source of re-tooling yourself and skills. there's a number of online sources you can go to right now. Even one-day seminars. Even reading. Keeping yourself up to date in the field that you're in. really need to create, to be recreating yourself on, on just a regular basis because the rate of change is so fast and so quick that you can quickly, really become obsolete if you don't keep yourself up to date.