Applying the Future-Fit Code: 10 Strategies to future-proof your career and accelerate your employment mobility and prosperity in the digital economy

1. THE FUTURE-FIT CODE: 10 STRATEGIES TO
FUTURE-PROOF YOUR CAREER AND
ACCELERATE YOUR EMPLOYMENT MOBILITY
IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY
CHARLES COTTER PhD candidate, MBA, B.A (Hons), B.A
www.slideshare.net/CharlesCotter
20 DECEMBER 2017

2. THE FUTURE-FIT CODE: 10 STRATEGIES TO FUTURE-
PROOF YOUR CAREER
• Future-fit, career-minded consultants will apply the following strategies:
#1: Relevance
#2: Differentiation
#3: Unique Value Proposition (UVP)
#4: Specialization
#5: Agility

3. THE FUTURE-FIT CODE: 10 STRATEGIES TO FUTURE-
PROOF YOUR CAREER
• Future-fit, career-minded consultants will apply the following strategies:
#6: Re-invention
#7: Value Amplification
#8: Next Dimension Thinking
#9: Digital Literacy and -Citizenship
#10: Hyperconnected Collaborator

4. "If you do not stay current, you will become
redundant.“
(Charles Cotter, 3 July 2017)
STRATEGY #1:

5. "If you don't differentiate yourself, you'll be traded as a
low-end commodity.“
Charles Cotter, 10 July 2017
STRATEGY #2: DIFFERENTIATION

6. "Distinctiveness practiced with diligence and dignity is
a dynamic and deal-breaking differentiator"
(Charles Cotter, 20 July '17)
STRATEGY #3:

7. "The business currency of the future, gig economy will be
specialization. The on-demand workforce will be driven
and dominated by expert taskmasters, not multi-taskers.“
(Charles Cotter, 3 August 2017)
STRATEGY #4:

8. “Future fit consultants will demonstrate the agility to transition with
stealth-like fluidity and precision from gig conceptualization to
actualization.”
(Charles Cotter, 17 August 2017)
STRATEGY #5: AGILITY

9. "Just like we constantly refresh our social media pages and
update our status, so we will have to rigorously reinvent our
future career status to sustain employment mobility."
(Charles Cotter, 1 September 2017)
STRATEGY #6:

10. “Stop fixating on the cliché, value add – the business
calculator function of the future, will be multiplication, so
rather concentrate on being a value amplifier.”
(Charles Cotter, 8 September 2017)
STRATEGY #7: VALUE AMPLIFICATION

11. “To prosper in the Digital Economy job space, you will have to
innovatively redesign your thinking and business model to
explore uncharted frontiers like independent virtual consulting
gigs and abandon the notion and comfort of your full-time
employment status.”
(Charles Cotter, 18 September
2017)
STRATEGY #8: NEXT
DIMENSION THINKING

12. “To actualize to a responsible and responsive digital
citizen, you’ll have to master the ability to navigate,
curate, analyze and communicate via digital media
sources across an array of 5-G technological platforms.”
(Charles Cotter, 13 October 2017)
STRATEGY #9: DIGITAL LITERACY & -CITIZENSHIP

13. “The value of your business network will not be determined by the quantity
of your direct connections, but rather by your analytical ability to
penetrate, mine and harvest the business relationship potential and
exploit mutually-beneficial collaboration opportunities within the scope of
your secondary and tertiary connections.”
(Charles Cotter, 14 December 2017)
STRATEGY #10: HYPERCONNECTED
COLLABORATOR

14. SUMMARY OF THE
FUTURE-FIT CODE
(STRATEGIES)
• #1: Relevance
• #2: Differentiation
• #3: UVP
• #4: Specialization
• #5: Agility
• #6: Re-invention
• #7: Value Amplification
• #8: Next Dimension Thinking
• #9: Digital Literacy & -Citizenship
• #10: Hyperconnected Collaborator

15. CONTACT DETAILS
• Charles Cotter
• (+27) 84 562 9446
• charlescot@polka.co.za
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @Charles_Cotter
• http://www.slideshare.net/CharlesCotter