How To Launch A Skills-Forward Talent Strategy

What it's about

Key chapters

• Turn skills into your organization’s new growth language

  Developing a skills-forward talent strategy can help you unite people growth with business success.

• Four steps organizations must take

  People want to do meaningful work and understand their career opportunities. Organizations must help employees feel capable, secure, and connected to their careers and to the company’s mission and goals.

• Step 1: Embed learning and development into your culture

  Learning must be part of who you are as an organization. That means encouraging the behaviors that lead to success.

• Step 2: Help employees identify new skills—and how they apply to your organization and industry

  Employees need to understand how new skills are applied to the present and future of their organization and the broader aspects of how it impacts their industry.

• Step 3: Let AI do some of the heavy lifting

  AI gives organizations the ability to make predictive and intelligent decisions and recommendations.

• Step 4: Demonstrate organizational impact

  Organizations should consider adjusting their approach to skill development to reduce barriers and improve outcomes across the future ready workforce.

• Employees and companies must work together in the reskilling revolution

  The world of work has changed forever, and your employees are painfully aware of the effects.