Challenge 1
Connect
Start with your baseline audit, then pick your first Connect activity: attend a branch meeting, start a conversation, grow your network.
Pack 01 · Yours on sign-upA practical skills challenge to complement technical knowledge.
The Future Skills Challenge helps you develop the five skills that automation can't replace.
Every year the software does more of the processing. What it can't do is sit across the table from a worried client, chair the committee, or spot the question nobody asked.
Employers and clients now buy advice, communication and trust. The technical skills can be proved with certificates, but the human skills are the difference.
Whether you're looking to improve existing soft skills or develop new ones, this challenge will help you grow and develop.
Join whenever suits you: your first challenge starts the day you sign up, and a new one unlocks each month.
This short quiz helps you understand where your soft skills are currently, and gives you a base point to measure against at the end of the challenge.
Take the assessmentSign up and receive a monthly pack with ideas to help you develop different skills: Connect, Learn, Share.
One pack a month, pick anythingFree to access: no cost and no minimum activity. Your challenge starts the day you join.
Sign upStart with your baseline audit, then pick your first Connect activity: attend a branch meeting, start a conversation, grow your network.
Pack 01 · Yours on sign-upChoose something you have been meaning to learn and give it a month of small, real steps.
Pack 02 · Unlocks in month twoPass it on. Share what you know, retake your assessment, and turn the shift in your scores into your story.
Pack 03 · Unlocks in month threeWork through the audit below to score yourself across the five capabilities. Save or print your report, keep your numbers safe, and score yourself again at the end of the challenge. The shift is yours to brag about.
Done your audit? Sign up below and your first challenge pack is on its way.
Welcome to the challenge. Watch your inbox for Pack 01. Your first challenge is Connect: pick one activity and put it in your diary.
Download your packs as they unlock, and grab the campaign graphic to spread the word at your branch, practice or college. Link back to www.bookkeepers.org.uk and keep the branding as it is.
Your first menu: activities, skills and your first story prompt. Yours the day you sign up. Packs 02 and 03 unlock in your second and third months.
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Finished a Connect activity? Post the badge, tag ICB and use #ICBFutureSkills.
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