Strategy

Soft skills are the nucleus of a company’s people operations and productivity, but they must also be acknowledged as the most important interconnection between education and employability.

In the same way that flight versus fight is easily discernible, managers need to be adept at recognizing and properly addressing whether their employees are burning out or burning up.

Hiring and providing training and support to immigrants will not only help boost the career prospects of millions of workers, but will help create a workforce that better reflects the communities that companies and organizations aim to serve. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and a national reckoning with structural racism, this is the path to a stronger and more inclusive workforce that leaves nobody behind.

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.

Unite your teams to unlock greater productivity and improve results across your organization.

Teaming, when done well, is a much bigger deal than simply giving a group a task. Teaming is creating the circumstances for innovation, ideas and solutions. There is magic in this.

Executive education might be facing some innate problems, but it turns out these issues are nothing that a little ingenuity and a new pedagogical perspective can’t fix.

L&D teams have helped to alleviate some of the stress and anxieties people are feeling as their organizations grapple with pandemic-related changes and challenges.

Committee work as a vehicle to deliver and achieve professional development can be transformative for individual employees, the CLO and the organization.

By placing importance on growth at all levels of the organization, you can foster a learning culture that serves your people and helps your business grow.

In her first Talent Management column, “Ask the Career Doctor,” WOMEN Unlimited Inc.’s Rosina Racioppi shares her insight on staying visible while working remotely in an organization.

Uncertainty can’t mean “we do nothing until we know.” Using a tool such as scenario planning, L&D leaders can anticipate and consider what we would do if X or Y came to pass, and what enablers or capabilities would be required to mitigate the worst and optimize the best of that situation.

The future requires more partnership between higher education and corporations to shape a more skilled workforce. The challenge is breaking down the technology barriers that have developed over time in order for this to become a reality.

To be human is to be sentient but also capable of change. To change, however, I must first willingly recognize the ways in which my brain has been molded and influenced by my race.