Part 4: The New Workforce Era — Work with others to problems

My previous blog on “The New Workforce Era — Think like an entrepreneur?” highlights a different way to interpret your job. We shall continue to examine other key traits to thrive in the new workforce era.

The old rules of work meant you didn’t always have to collaborate with other people. Even if you were part of a team, you might have worked somewhat independently. But in a constantly changing work environment, you and your fellow team members will increasingly need to work together to solve problems. You’re going to find you need to collaborate across departments and divisions, across organisational boundaries and with people worldwide.

Work with others to solve a pool of problems.

You as an individual are solving a set of problems; you’ll increasingly find that you and your coworkers will need to work together as a team of problem solvers. Instead of being a set of individual workers who operate in parallel, think about the pool of problems your team is charged with solving.

What if you approach that set of problems as a team, dynamically allocating the tasks to be solved between yourselves so that the team could bring each person’s unique skills to bear on the most appropriate problems. That’s what it means to be a pool of problem…