Today’s workplace is on the verge of a leadership substitution where existing leaders will be replaced by workers with new ideas, expectations, approaches, and strategies. 63.3% of U.S. executives will be eligible to retire in the next 5 years and 33% are currently eligible to retire. In addition, in 2013 87% of Millennial workers took on management roles, versus 38% of Generation X and 19% of Baby Boomers.
Interesting that two of the seven facets of the #future employee as outlined in this article are ‘Shifting from a knowledge to a learning worker’ and ‘Teaches and leans at will’. Begs the question: ‘What’s the future role of L&D if these are our future workers?”
