Commentary & Opinion
Simple truths of leadership
People are desperately looking for leaders they can believe in — leaders whose focus is on serving the greater good.
Beyond traditional learning programs
To prepare for Industry 4.0 and a diverse, shrinking workforce, we need to open the door of meaningful learning to everyone.
Learning design considerations for the hybrid working environment
How can we adapt our learning and development offerings to best suit the environments people are working in, and will work in?
Looking inward and beyond the industry’s fixation with ‘skills mapping’
Talent development’s focus on chasing 30,000 skills is enabling it to ignore other problems.
Leader or cheerleader — have we lost our way?
Leadership today actually requires carefully balancing both leading “from the front” and “leading from behind.”
Competencies and collaborations for 2022
Since 2022 is likely to be rife with unknowns and uncertainties, the need for paradigms that reach across all modes of work is crucial.
Future-focused training: Are you committing learning malpractice?
No one wants a workforce with outdated skills. Most would say it makes sense to start important training now. But does it?
Coaching as a learning reinforcement method
How introducing coaching can make learning “stick.”
5 long-lasting lessons from 2021 to speed up workforce competitiveness in an accelerated world
While we are all eagerly looking forward to the end of the pandemic era, we can take this moment to look back and reflect upon some important lessons.
Reskilling: Radical or realistic?
Penn Foster research shows that the concept and story of “radical reskilling” may be more complex than the tales of success that often find their way into the news.
The hybrid workforce: More than simply being virtual
As we continue to develop and hone our hybrid workforce models, it’s critical that we consistently create learning experiences that resonate with our workforces, wherever and whenever our employees are learning.
Hybrid skills are ascendant in the post-pandemic talent economy
We now face a tight labor market with fewer resources to pull from when it comes to human capital.
5 ways L&D teams can contribute toward making organizations agile
Learning and development teams play a key role in developing agility in organizations as influencers of employee mindset and workplace culture.