Open Question: How Can We Make the Future Workforce Better at Innovation?
I was asked the below question in a recent interview:
If you were to change one thing about our educational system to better prepare students to contribute in the innovation workforce of tomorrow, what would it be?
My response:
“I would look into how the future workforce can become better at learning from failures. We fail more often than we succeed when it comes to innovation and yet we do not manage to extract much learning out of these failures.
I believe such a learning capability can lead to better innovation processes as we will be able to develop new perspectives to our challenges faster.”
What is your answer to this question?
I would drive an effort to firstly train teachers in complex thinking, making them run away of linear thinking and start dealing with paradoxes. By transforming them into real facilitators for promoting the expected attitude when trying to solve challenges via divergent and convergent thinking.
In a nutshell, it is necessary to make people learn to think, not defend own opinions or debating about who is right.
By providing an environment that supports "Asking questions".