Top workplace skills for 2026
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The top 10 skills for 2026
1. AI and big data
2. Networks and cybersecurity
3. Technological literacy
4. Creative thinking
5. Resilience, flexibility and agility
6. Curiosity and lifelong learning
7. Leadership and social influence
8. Talent management
9. Analytical thinking
10. Environmental stewardship
Source: Future of Jobs Report 2025, World Economic Forum (the skills growing fastest in importance to 2030). Corroborated by LinkedIn’s Skills on the Rise 2026 and Coursera’s Job Skills Report 2026.
Building the 2026 skills
TeamWork.Inc recreates businesses using game technology and experiential learning methods. The simulation presents real-world business scenarios to build the skills employers need most in 2026.
Split into different departments and roles, teams need to optimize a struggling business by working together; all whilst staying in business and making a profit.
Played virtually or in a classroom, participants learn to communicate and improve business skills by running a business in a realistic and interactive platform.
All Immersive Edge simulations are built on our award-winning ROCKET platform, a powerful, cost-effective and highly scalable platform with a realistic and interactive interface.
Benefits
Business empathy
Silo thinking has consequences. Learn how to anticipate problems before they happen.
Team collaboration
Teams rapidly realize that the only way they can win is through working together.
Building trust
Inter-departmental trust is critical. Teams learn to work in complete harmony.
Systems thinking
Enable 360 degree thinking, with teams thinking about the whole organization.
Common goals
Teams learn for themselves how to develop the strategy needed to create
a successful organization.
Learning outcomes
Employers expect 39% of workers’ core skills to change by 2030, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025.
TeamWork.Inc equips workforces to work together and develops their skills and mastery.
- Sharpening analytical thinking by interpreting live business data and making decisions under pressure.
- Building AI and data literacy as teams interrogate trends and signals to steer a virtual company.
- Developing resilience, flexibility and agility through fast-changing rounds where plans rarely survive contact.
- Boosting creative thinking by giving teams room to test bold strategies without real-world risk.
- Growing curiosity and lifelong learning through reflect-and-improve cycles between rounds.
- Improving leadership and social influence, revealing emerging leaders and their development needs.
- Practicing talent management as teams organize roles, delegate and play to each other’s strengths.
- Raising technological literacy by running a business on a live digital platform.
- Strengthening systems thinking: seeing how decisions in one department ripple across the whole organization.
- Encouraging environmental stewardship by weighing sustainability against profit in strategic choices.
How it works:
Experiential learning
Practice makes perfect.
Experiential learning is the most successful method of driving organizational change, improving thinking skills and creating lasting connections.
The recreation of real-world business scenarios allows users to learn by doing and results in a higher player engagement and emotional involvement.
26 weeks in 26 minutes
We challenge teams to develop the strategies to deliver organizational success in only a few short hours
The simulations are designed for groups of up to 15 people and divided into three to four rounds. Each round is 26 minutes and involves the equivalent of 26 weeks of trade. After each round, teams get to reflect and learn from past mistakes to improve their performance in future rounds.
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