The Skills-Based Organisation: Are we shifting away from the timeless entity of the Job?
We often introduce ourselves by our job titles. We recruit for jobs, progress to different versions of them, and in some ways, we become them, defined by the concept of a job.Perhaps, until now.
We are beginning to see, hear, and experience something emerging: the Skills-Based approach. This shift is happening in hiring and selection, as well as across a wider organisational context. It’s like an "extreme" version of work that is no longer contained within the vessel of a job. We've already seen the Gig Economy and contingent worker models spark a lot of interest (often negative), yet they’ve become a recognised and additional part of organisational design and operating models. But is there more to come? Is this the first wave in the deconstruction of jobs into something else? Are traditional jobs still relevant as we move into an era dominated by AI and automation?
In this virtual session, Perry Timms — 2022's No. 1 Most Influential HR Thinker, author, speaker, Guest Professor, and enterprise founder — will share his research and insights to help us understand:
- What we mean by Skills-Based, and what this phenomenon is likely to mean now, in the mid-term, and in the long-term
- How the concept of Skills-Based Organisations is being developed and delivered today
- If Skills-Based Organisations will truly symbolise and significantly strengthen the agile principles needed to create more adaptive organisations
Anyone interested in Agile at Scale; Change and People Professionals introducing more adaptive operating approaches, and Organisation Design & Development Practitioners, should benefit from a clearer way to bring Skills-Based approaches into their work.
Speaker
Perry Timms
Perry Timms has over 30 years of experience in business change and performance, with the last 21 being in HR/Organisation Development. He ranked Number 1 in HR's Most Influential Thinkers 2022 (his 5th inclusion in that list) and is now in the HR Most Influential Hall of Fame and a 4x Engagement 101 Global Influencer. Perry is a 4x Guest Professor, a 2x author and a 2x TEDx speaker. Perry founded People and Transformational HR 12 years ago, and the venture is a Certified BCorporation, a WorldBlu Certified Freedom-Centred organisation, a Gold Standard 4-day Working Week, a 2023 Top 50 EMEA Inspiring Workplaces, Top 5 Most Flexible Workplace on the Flexa Index, a Living Wage employer and a Climate Positive enterprise. Perry is a Chartered Member of the CIPD, a Fellow of the RSA and in 2024 was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in self-managed, democratic organisations.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/perrytimms/
Host
Myles Hopkins
Myles Hopkins is a business agility influencer and leads the business agility community in Africa. He is the founder of Be Agile and has been a globally respected consultant for the past 20 years.
Myles is a strategic systems thinker whose strength lies in seeing the bigger picture and understanding how that will translate across the full internal and external ecosystem that a client operates within.
He guides organisations to place the customer at the centre of everything they do whilst, simultaneously, enabling this through winning market strategies, focussed innovation, seamless and timely delivery, digital solutions and real-time business intelligence.
Myles believes that the organisations that thrive in the future are those with the best talent and drives a strong people agenda within his clients.
- Website:
- www.beagile.co.za/
