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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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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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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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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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