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The shift to hybrid work demands rebalanced workplace culture and new supporting technology
We are at an inflection point in how most people experience work. The binary choice of remote working versus bouncing back into the office is the wrong debate. Instead, we should see flexibility and adaptability as core characteristics of a successful organization operating in a world of exponential change.
Rebuilding learning equity: The key to overcoming the skills gap
Rather than get distracted by timely skill gaps, L&D must instead address the pervasive and damaging lack of opportunity.
Employers need new strategies to win the post-pandemic race for scarce talent
Employers need to be proactive by developing comprehensive strategies to identify which skills they need to stay competitive and how to acquire them, be it through hiring new talent or reskilling and upskilling their existing workforce. Many employers are broadly aware of this challenge but lack clarity about how to implement a dynamic program that meets it.
‘Learning literacy’ and the currency of a knowledge-based economy
While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, there is ample evidence of the universal benefits that employee education programs confer.
Here’s why L&D’s seat at the C-suite table is secure in 2021
Data from LinkedIn Learning’s new “2021 Workplace Learning Report” indicates that L&D is well-positioned to have a long-term, elevated role within organizations today, from promoting internal mobility to actively creating a more inclusive and equitable workforce.
The future of learning is on the front line
L&D can learn a lot from the front-line experience — regardless of industry or audience.
Skill data: the secret to your 2021 L&D strategy
Person-centricity is often the key to a smart learning strategy. L&D is, after all, deeply personal. Leveraging your skill data can help you personalize your learning to all workers.
Creating an environment for effective learning measurement
If we truly embrace our people as our most valuable corporate asset, invest in them as we would to maintain and grow physical assets, and surround them with opportunities to acquire new skills that directly align with corporate goals, the return on learning investment will naturally find its place among our top business KPIs.
Video: 2020 Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning study identifies global leadership gap
47 learning leaders across several continents participated in this survey, which revealed how the leadership requirements across various industries have shifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To overcome business disruption, take a front-line-first approach
Eighty percent of the global workforce is on the front line. Disruption may have changed the way they do their jobs, but they remain the ultimate driver of business success, and we should invest in their development.
The Reskilling Revolution versus the ‘clay layer’
A Reskilling Revolution is a necessary and noble goal, but its execution will collide with populations that are not prepared for change and do not view lifelong learning as key to their future success.
We can’t ‘flow of work’ our way into the future
No matter how much learning in the flow of work we enable, there will always be limits. The flow of work will never allow enough space for the future of work.
Agile by fire: how the tech industry is transforming learning
The tech industry is advancing both theoretical and applied learning at a faster rate than Apple can push out an iOS update. It is “agility by fire” — the ability to move quickly but not easily, and still excel.
Little “e” education: Think small to meet today’s enormous challenges
With unemployment soaring, many people will need to completely retool or earn new credentials to regain employment — and very short-term training has the ability to equip them with the skills, behaviors and knowledge needed. Postsecondary education has the know-how to step up to meet this immediate need and to help individuals understand how to translate new skills into longer-term prosperity.
Onward … to the past?
Reflections on how our profession evolves (or not).