Posts Tagged ‘Skills’
How Learning and Skill Development Affect Business Agility, Employee Belonging, and Productivity [Report]
There’s an old proverb that essentially states “the shoemaker’s children have no shoes.” The more modern version is “the cobbler’s children have no shoes,” even though handmade shoes are mostly a lost art. However, the metaphor still has a profound message. Where we have expertise, we often use that expertise for the benefit of others,…
Read MoreThe Power of a Skills-Based Approach to Talent
The Power of a Skills-Based Approach to Talent: Reducing Risk and Unlocking Workforce Potential In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, understanding the skills of your workforce is more important than ever. Whether it’s for hiring, development, or strategic decision-making, a skills-based approach to talent management has emerged as a powerful way to unlock the potential…
Read MoreThe Power of a Single System to Manage, Track, and Report on Employee Skills
Years ago a storm came through the town where I lived and damaged a building on my father’s property. He needed it repaired, so I volunteered for the task. I’m not very handy at building and repairs, but I wanted to give it my best shot. So I showed up with my tools and found…
Read MoreMachine Learning Allows Employers to Leverage Skill Data in Ways We Never Dreamed
In 2019, our team at Lighthouse Research & Advisory set out to determine if artificial intelligence (AI) is better than humans at some HR tasks. We know that automation can process some actions faster than a human, but what about finding insights in employee engagement data? Can a computer really do that better than we…
Read MoreSkills Provide an Objective Data Foundation and a Common Business Language
When it comes to discussions about skills in the workplace, it can feel very much like an all-or-nothing proposition. You either get it right and reap the rewards or you get it wrong and never have another opportunity to solve the skills puzzle. I’m hoping the following parable helps illustrate how that’s simply not true.…
Read MoreThese are the Learning Technology and L&D Skill Gaps that Exist [New Research]
When situations change and people can’t change fast enough, everyone turns to the learning team for answers. But what if they have questions of their own? In the first of a series of reports from our newest research study, we found a number of surprising insights from the audience of 2,000+ learners and learning professionals/executive…
Read MoreSkills Power Every Talent Practice: Building Your Skills Business Case
Like many parents in the last year, I’ve spent more time with my kids’ learning materials, re-familiarizing myself with the ins and outs of intermediate school math, social studies, and more. One of the concepts that sticks out to me in science is atomic particles, because it has a very clear tie to how we…
Read MoreHow HR Tech Can Future Proof Your Business Against Another Pandemic
97% of firms in a recent Lighthouse Research and Advisory study claimed HR technology enables future readiness within their business. Since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, public response has tested that readiness for business both large and small. The COVID-19 response has induced systemic changes in how organizations train, develop and engage their employees.…
Read MoreHow to Develop and Verify the Skills Your Workforce Needs [Video]
I have a vision of the workplace where HR knows as much about the skills of the workforce as finance does about the dollars and cents on the balance sheet. That’s a big vision, but I know it’s also possible to accomplish. I recently spoke about how HR leaders can help to understand the skills…
Read MoreEverything You Need to Know About Reskilling (Including Some Surprising Stats)
When a firm has 250,000 global employees, it’s easy to become comfortable with how things operate. However, that’s when things usually end up going poorly. In AT&T’s case, the firm realized that about half of its workforce didn’t have the skills necessary for its increasingly digital infrastructure, and about 100,000 of those employees were in…
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