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

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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Flip The Script On Uncertainty – Take Control!

In uncertain times, the best thing to do is take control. What can we control? Our own personal development. What you want to promote is that they have the opportunity, right here and now, to develop their skills – whether that is in their current role or to prepare them for their next role, wherever that may be.

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5 ways to optimize onboarding new hires with competency models

What if you, as the new hire, had a way of reviewing all those expectations and best practices early on, so you could eliminate the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that leads to the statistics above? That’s what competency models bring to onboarding.

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4 reasons to use competency models to build a skills inventory

Why should I have a skills inventory? Because it will identify what my target audience is capable of doing. And why is that important? Because if you know what your organization is NOT capable of doing, you know what development is required. If each person can execute their part of the corporate strategy, then the company’s strategy will be achieved. Read- hero status!

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A Lesson on Upskilling from the film, Top Gun: Maverick

In order to train his group, Maverick breaks down the mission into its core deliverables and trains on each part of the mission. This is exactly how we need to address corporate training – by breaking down each role into the skills (and associated behaviors) needed to be great at our jobs. This is called competency-based learning.

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3 Steps to Solve your Company's Skill Gaps

With the right competency model, learner-centric approach, and personalized learning technology, companies can be on their way to minimizing employee skill gaps, increasing employee engagement, and changing perspectives of Learning and Development departments. Download our free whitepaper!

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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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