‘Learning literacy’ and the currency of a knowledge-based economy

‘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.

Leadership Development | Learning Delivery | Measurement
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.

Strategy
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.

Crisis Leadership | Leading Through Adversity | Strategy
The future of learning is humanity, with a side of technology

When it comes to talent mobility, a real-life “talent concierge” can beat out any algorithm.

Learning Delivery | Strategy | Talent Management
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.

Measurement
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.

Leading Through Adversity | Strategy
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.

Talent Management
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.

Commentary & Opinion | Strategy | Talent Management