To add to the question what skills will your job need I would add the question-- What job do you need to be doing in five years?

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What skills will your job need in five years time? You may think the question ought to be 'what skills will you need to do your job in five years time' but, if a new poll is anything to go by, half the people around you in the office may no longer be doing the job they're doing simply because its requirements will have changed and they won't have done anything (or enough) to change in response. Just hope you're not part of that half. Read more at www.management-issues.com

This clip is from an article on the influence of Generation Y on organizational structure. As this structure becomes common, training and learning departments will have a clear business requirement for social and informal learning.

Of course there is some controversy about who these Gen Y's really are as a group and where they will be in ten years. When boomers became managers they didn't exactly turn the workplace into a commune.

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A New Kind of Organizational Design Today's organizational designs will likely be deemed obsolete. Millennials will demand a shift away from "command and control" reporting lines to more cooperative-based leadership models that provide greater autonomy and freedom of choice in the way work is performed. Such a shift will stress and flex the organization in new and challenging ways. Looser, team-based organizational designs will need to be adopted. Gone are the days of multi-layered designs characterized by managers managing managers. Rather, temporary, purpose-based worker groupings emerge and flatter reporting structures are the upshot. The pyramid management structure that we all grew up in will slowly be replaced with a more fluid and responsive network design. A networked organizational design is the next evolutionary step for today's "matrixed" organization. Read more at www.management-issues.com