leadership development – Vision And Leadership Camp

A train that’s off its tracks isn’t going anywhere. A Vision Camp can align you with the life track that you want to be on.

Young people losing their direction, going off the rails, is a serious concern, and not just for the individuals themselves and their families. For example, in the UK a group of fifty charities assessed that the lack of early intervention for those who start to lose their way costs the economy over £17BN (US $23BN) each year. In many Western countries university dropout rates are reaching record highs as a combination of high tuition fees and uncertainty over the future of the employment market take their toll; a Harvard University study in 2012 found that only 56% of USA college and university freshmen finished their degree, an astonishing wastage (and waste).

What then can be done to prevent our young people from losing direction in this way? It’s a burning question if we are to maximize the potential of these most precious assets in our society. I would argue that from a young age we need to help children and young adults establish […]

It’s an often cited but still astonishing fact that a person who saw the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 could easily have lived long enough to witness Neil Armstrong walking on the moon in 1969. The pace of change in the world since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution has been quite incredible, but the changes we will experience in the next few decades are set to dwarf what has gone before.

This will be particularly true in the workplace: a report by the Oxford Martin School estimates that up to 47% of jobs in the USA could disappear through mechanization and computerization by 2035. Young people entering the workplace in the next few years will be facing a set of challenges that their parents could never have envisaged. In order to succeed in this new environment it is essential that they are prepared as early as possible for its demands, which is one of the vital aspects of my Vision Camps for those about to enter the adult world.

One of the biggest changes in the workplace will be the virtual abolition of the traditional corporate […]

Vision And Leadership Camp

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Going Off The Rails

Preparing Young People For The Demands of The Future Workplace