With a growing number of organisations starting to collaborate with other organisations or with different teams in their own company, newsroom staff often temporarily find themselves performing functions or roles they couldn't have predicted, let alone train for. Furthermore, journalists covering major news events are increasingly finding themselves working at the cutting edge of newsroom innovation, in a world where trust is talked about at every turn. How does a journalist prepare for a future workplace they can't predict and how can we start to normalise "niche" skills that will undoubtedly become mainstream? Fergus Bell outlines the steps to take.