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How to Develop the Most Critical Performance Skills

November 11, 2024 at 7:00 PM ET

Imagine briefly that you are an employer at an elite company—McKinsey, Hermes, Google, SpaceX, Goldman, Patagonia. What are you looking for among your many candidates that will set apart the best? How do you know who you want to hire?

Though many candidates seem to believe the process is some fairly mysterious black box, all of these companies are looking for all of the same things in their employees. The best recruiters closely follow organizational psychology and management theory—developed since the early 20th century—and what makes for the best performers, regardless of role. This research found that a handful of cognitive and psychological skills explain almost all variations in collegiate and job performance, especially in high-skill jobs.

What are these core cognitive and psychological skills, and how are they developed? Learn more during this webinar. 

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What to expect:

In this webinar, Erik Fogg, founder of Futures Forge, will share the latest science on what skills make you most stand out as a top performer, and how to develop them.

Futures Forge’s founding team built their curriculum based on this science, as well as their own experience. Between them, they:

Attended Oxford and MIT undergraduate; Cambridge and MIT grad school

Founded elite management consulting firms and venture-backed technology startups, growing these companies to over 60 people and raising over $25M

Have professionally coached and helped develop hundreds of the highest performing graduates out of top-50 US and UK universities

Meet the speaker:

Erik Fogg

Founder | Futures Forge

Erik Fogg (MIT undergrad + masters) has led three venture-backed startups, founding two and bringing one to exit after raising $25M and growing to nearly 60 employees. Erik’s “founder factory” growth and coaching system within ProdPerfect led to three new tech startups spinning off in the two years before exit. Today, Erik is a founder at Futures Forge and leads the Skills for Success program. 

Erik is also an academic and deep researcher. In addition to employing our innovations and lessons from industry, our curriculum and pedagogy use proven methods from educational psychology and neuroscience. Through our system of Catalytic Learning, we foster deep engagement and help students internalize the critical skills they need to succeed in any future environment. Our students repeatedly share that they learned more in 2 weeks at Futures Forge than in 2 years at school.