Matthew Daniel is principal of talent strategy and mobility for Guild Education and also serves on the Defense Business Board.
Susan Hackett is a consultant with Guild Education.
As a new normal emerges, it is apparent that ruling out the strategies that don’t work is just as important as identifying the ones that succeed. Taking a similar approach to skills data — by looking at skills in decline as well as those on the rise — will better prepare all of us for…
The heavy focus on short-term ROI and the delivery of narrow skill sets oft-evangelized in L&D circles may well be the source of the “skills shortage” industries face today. Approaching training from a durable-skills-first perspective empowers talent to make dynamic, longer-term contributions to an organization.
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.