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Ensure upskilling & reskilling equity for all!
Ensure upskilling & reskilling equity for all!

It’s time to eliminate the disparity between haves and have-nots with respect to the right skills for today’s work. If you want to ensure upskilling/reskilling equity for all, leverage technology like the Self-Directed Learning Engine™ to provide everyone with the opportunity to grow at their own pace. Those with the right skills will be able to increasingly control their destiny, choosing how, where, and when they work, while those without the required skills will not be able to envision how their circumstances will improve

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3 reasons your employees are frustrated and disengaged
3 reasons your employees are frustrated and disengaged

Skill gaps and employee engagement problems are at the top of mind of 87% of the leaders in HR and executive management but only 14% of L&D leaders believe business leaders view them as strategic partners. The skills gap crisis and employee disengagement continue to grow, and leadership doesn’t see L&D as the solution. Want to ensure that your business leaders DON’T view you as a strategic partner? Follow these 3 steps.

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How to build a culture of internal mobility to reduce skills shortage
How to build a culture of internal mobility to reduce skills shortage

Ensuring that your existing talent is able to fully utilize all of their current skills and develop their careers is a huge driver of employee engagement and business performance. It also matters for employee retention. Learn how to build a culture of internal mobility to reduce skill shortages.

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Employee EngagementGuest UserCareer development and planning
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3 Traits that make you a L&D Rockstar in 2022
3 Traits that make you a L&D Rockstar in 2022

So, if you want to be a Learning & Development Rock Star in 2022- The ultimate goal is to make personal development fast and easy by providing one-click access to everything they need, recognizing that you can better serve the audience by becoming the Master Of The Universe, linking to options throughout the learning ecosystem, rather than creating it all. The result will be a culture of learning that helps people help themselves to upskill and reskill at the speed of change. And that’s something every organization needs!

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Employee EngagementGuest UserOrganizational skill inventory
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4 ways Competency Models Increase Engagement
4 ways Competency Models Increase Engagement

Make it actionable. That means getting the model off the PowerPoint, out of the spreadsheets and into people’s hands. A competency model that isn’t easily accessible by those during the development process, and isn’t assessable such that one can measure their capabilities against it to identify and close gaps with competency-based learning is pretty worthless.

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Employee EngagementGuest UserPersonalized Learning
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Why Traditional Talent, Learning & Development can’t support organizational agility
Why Traditional Talent, Learning & Development can’t support organizational agility

Traditional Talent, Learning & Development can’t support organizational agility. So what do we do? Like the organizations themselves, we evolve. We need to identify and build capability in real time, just-in-time, to support changes. We need to allow people in the roles who need the capabilities to own their achievement.

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The value of task-based mentors
The value of task-based mentors

Collaborative learning has been shown to be one of the most effective types of learning. We call it “task-based mentoring” though you may call it “flash mentoring”, “peer coaching”, or “modern apprenticeship”.

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Unlock continuous skill development by helping each person both learn and teach
Unlock continuous skill development by helping each person both learn and teach

Taking advantage of task-based mentors/peer mentors (what McKinsey calls distributed apprenticeship) is key to upskilling and reskilling at scale in the flow of work.

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