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How The Workforce Learns 2019: Learning In (And Beyond) The Flow Of Work
To integrate learning and work, you need to do more than just integrate learning technology and work technology. Don’t believe the hype. Integrating learning into the flow of work is not as simple as...
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Skills Lifecycle Part 4: Strawberry Skills Forever
You’ve heard of The Beatles, right? The first iconic boy band from Liverpool who crafted lyrics, legacy, and legend in the 1960s. But they didn’t get there overnight. Malcolm Gladwell in his book...
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From Numbers to Insights: Three Steps to Make Learning Data Actionable
This is a summary of Interpreting Data: Turning Numbers into Insights, a session at LENS 2019. Find the full recording of the presentation at the bottom of this article. In a world where Venmo...
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Stop Stealing Careers
What is Enterprise Learning For? The purpose of enterprise learning or learning and development is just that: the learning and development of employees at work. But if that is truly its sole purpose,...
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How Cargill Redesigned Its Learning Strategy From the Ground Up
Cargill knows how to scale. For over 150 years, the company has worked with farmers and customers to sustain our food system. Still a family-owned business after multiple generations, Cargill is the...
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When the Competency Model Breaks Down: How to Map Skills to Roles
This article is based on a presentation from our annual conference, Degreed LENS. Find the full video of the presentation at the bottom of this page. By now most of us have caught on to the idea that...
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Empowering the Frontline: Teaching Managers to be L&D Pros
Over half of all employees will require significant reskilling and upskilling by 2022, which means that as a learning and development (L&D) professional, you’re likely busier than ever before. And...
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Puppies, Coffee, and Chocolate: Establishing a Continuous Learning Habit
There’s no doubt about it, you are going to need new skills to be successful in the future workplace. According to the World Economic Forum, over half of all workers will need reskilling within the...
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Pinpointing the Right Skills to Activate Performance
“The only way to survive is to continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes an innovative company.” Ginni Rometty, CEO, IBM Technology is...
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The Skills Lifecycle Part 1: Alignment and the New HR
Much to the chagrin of my inner 12-year-old, Back to the Future wasn’t spot on with all its predictions for our current lifestyle. Hoverboards are still a work in progress, cars aren’t flying yet, and...
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In case you didn’t notice it, there has been a monumental shift in the learning market, with analysts beginning to diagnose a new trend. The Sierra Cedar 2018-2019 HR Systems Survey white paper cites...
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Our Top 10 Picks to Keep You On Top
L&D is an ever-evolving world and staying on top of it all can be a monumental task. But don’t sweat it, because Degreed’s got your back. We went into our shed, grabbed the pickaxes and shovels,...
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It Takes More Than Just Sticks and Spit: How to Build Your Foundation on Degreed
Ask anyone at Degreed who’s spent any amount of time with me and they’ll tell you my dislike for the word “implementation” to describe what our team does. The definition of implementation is “the...
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How the Workforce Learns 2019: About the Research
You can’t build or sustain a productive learning culture if you don’t understand how your workforce behaves and what they value. The definition of “culture” is, literally, “shared values and...
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How the Workforce Learns 2019: The ROI on Learning Experience
When it comes to how we learn at work, we’ve got work to do. That’s why we’ve joined forces with Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning to study the anthropology behind how the workforce...
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Good Things Come in Three: L&D Trends and Questions to Assess a Learning...
With constantly evolving technology, staying current with the direction and trends of the human capital industry is a full-time job — and a crucial one. With constant talk of the widening skills gap...
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The Skills Lifecycle Part 3: Curation is the new Creation
Mankind has fixated on the mysteries of the sun, moon, and stars since the dawn of time. Early Mesopotamians characterized the world as a flat, floating disk. Other ancient traditions imagined a...
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A History of L&D: Learning From the Past to Build the Future
“When experts are wrong, it’s often because they’re experts on an earlier version of the world.” -Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator Think back to 1999. Do you remember what you were an expert on...
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How the Workforce Learns in 2019: User-Generated Content
Traditional L&D isn’t obsolete, but it is incomplete. According to a soon-to-be-released survey of nearly 800 workers, managers, and leaders we’ve just done with Harvard Business Publishing (stay...
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4 Takeaways from Cisco’s Learning Strategy
With rapid technological development and eight out of ten CEOs actively worried about skill gaps, it’s clear that today’s workforce is changing. While this brings opportunity, it brings growing pains...
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Movin’ On Up: How Internal Mobility is all About People
Over the past several years, it’s grown harder and harder to talk about jobs, hiring, and careers without a conversation about automation, and yes, even robots. Walk into a McDonald’s, Walmart, or...
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The Skills Lifecycle Part 2: Benchmarking isn’t Just for Baseball
For me, the start of baseball season evokes childhood memories of hazy days snuggled on my grandpa’s lap, the voice of Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman drifting through the thick summer air....
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Four Ways to Get the Most out of Your Technology Investment
In most organizations, learning and development budgets are tight, even when L&D is expected to play a transformational role within the company. Often, success requires maximizing the budget or...
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Out of Office: Six Steps to Help Make Your Remote Work Culture Thrive
Four years ago, I joined Degreed. It was my first time working for a fully-remote company. I was skeptical of how such a company could work, especially one with a mission as ambitious as Degreed. Four...
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How to Shift from a Competency Model to a Skills Strategy in 5 Steps
Competency models are complicated. The list of competencies is often never-ending, bloated with dozens of buzzwords, and each one typically includes several repetitive paragraphs to describe various...
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2 Big Considerations When Transitioning to a Virtual Learning Program
Since the inception of Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) technology, it’s become an enticing way for organizations to save travel costs and offer more sessions that are available to employees in...
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Reducing Inefficiencies in the Labor Market
When I was growing up, my mom was (and still is) a prolific piano teacher. I vividly remember one particular student, Wy-Quon, who was a couple years wiser than my 9-year-old self. He arrived prior to...
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Navigating the New Normal: Advice from Degreed Clients | Vale
For some companies — like Degreed — remote work is built into the fabric of company culture. For others, operating without the comforts of a cubicle and the familiarity of in-person connections is a...
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Keep Calm and Follow the Data: Search results show what employees value in...
If you are like me, you have an inbox filled with articles like, “What to Do in Times of Crises,” “Business Continuity Plans,” and “Free Content Offerings.” Businesses everywhere are responding to...
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Navigating the New Normal: Advice from Degreed Clients | Cargill
For some—like Degreed—remote work is built into the fabric of company culture. For others, operating without the comforts of a cubicle and the familiarity of in-person connections is a brand-new...
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How to Build Your Own Incubator of Emerging Skills
This year has brought with it unexpected challenges in almost every aspect of our lives, and through this experience, it has become clear that we cannot predict the future. But we can focus on...
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Happy Employees, Happy Shareholders: Building a Skills Strategy that Benefits...
As a 140-year-old company, Prudential is a financial services giant, constantly working to reinvent itself — especially now as advances in automation lead to business efficiencies. And yet Vice...
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Invest Wisely: Help Your People Learn How to Learn
JPMorgan Chase is investing $350 million. Amazon doubled that, pledging $700 million. AT&T is spending even more, up to $1 billion. And then PwC blew them all away, committing $3 billion to the...
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Navigating the New Normal: Advice from Degreed Clients | Ford
For some businesses — like Degreed — remote work is built into the fabric of company culture. For others, it’s a new experience.We’re interviewing clients to find out how they’re supporting their...
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Hatch a Proactive Plan for the Future with Emerging Skills
It’s hard enough filling talent gaps for critical roles. Add the accelerating pace of technological and economic change to your workforce, and it becomes increasingly difficult to know what skills...
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Navigating the New Normal: Advice from Degreed Clients | Unilever
For some — like Degreed — remote work is built into the fabric of company culture. For others, operating without the comforts of a cubicle and the familiarity of in-person connections is a brand-new...
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7 Steps for Upskilling That Support Internal Mobility
A new project. A stretch assignment. Even a new role. Providing your employees with fresh opportunities is good for them, and it’s good for your organization. Employees get to learn and grow, which...
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Skills for the Win: How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset
With professional sports teams quarantined, millions of sports fans tuned in for The Last Dance, a documentary series about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Some expected a one-sided basketball...
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Navigating the New Normal: Advice from Degreed Clients | Conduent
For some—like Degreed—remote work is built into the fabric of company culture. For others, operating without the comforts of a cubicle and the familiarity of in-person connections is a brand-new...
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Overcoming Obstacles: Managers Are Perfectly Positioned to Help Workers Learn
What limits our learning? Anyone can give a few guesses — fear of failure, uncertain priorities, distracting TikTok videos — but Degreed decided to find out for sure. In our latest research report,...
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Let Go of Letting People Go: A Business Case for Labour Hoarding
I’d like to think we can agree on this: People are the most valuable asset of any business. People are responsible for the knowledge, skills, and innovation that create economic well being. This is...
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3 Common Upskilling Fails and How to Avoid Them
Perhaps you’re on a mission to boost employee engagement. Maybe you’re trying to supercharge your company culture. Maybe you’re embracing new technologies, evolving your business strategy with new...
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Delivering Better Employee Experiences in a Point Solution World
We’ve talked before about the difference between designing for the workforce vs. HR. One of the consequences of newer solutions delivering better manager and employee experiences is that we see many...
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You Can’t Achieve Career Mobility Looking Backward
I’ve never understood why the HR community adopted the term “performance management.” Successfully managing someone’s performance is an unrealistic expectation. Most parents struggle to manage a...
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Data, People, or Something In Between: Clearing Your Path to Career Mobility
There are many lessons we’ve learned from COVID-19 and its impact on the way we live, work, and think about the future. If you hadn’t thought about it previously, an upskilling strategy probably...
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How Corporate Giants Rely on Human Skills to Get Ahead
When the economy collapsed in 2008, the recession exposed U.S. automakers. General Motors and Chrysler needed the federal government to bail them out. Analysts complained that these car companies got...
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Chances Are You’re Buying Too Much Talent. It’s Time to Build and Borrow.
The lifespan of large, successful companies has never been shorter. In fact, more than half of the companies in today’s S&P 500 index were not in it 20 years ago. Why the turnover? Some companies...
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Three Moves for Managers to Develop Workers’ Human Skills
“He never had any fresh ideas.” “She gave up too easily.” “They just didn’t show leadership potential.” When new hires don’t work out, these are often the reasons why. Last year, a major survey of...
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6 Steps to Align L&D with Your Business
When transforming the way your department operates, it’s easy to look straight to a new tool to kickstart that change. Perhaps that’s why two of every three talent development leaders are looking for...
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Managers Make or Break Your Culture of Career Mobility
You can talk about career mobility all you want. But unless the managers across your organization buy into it too, it’s all just lip service — followed by negative, real-world consequences. People...
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