With all the recent changes in the labor market that have been accelerated by Covid, the skills gap has ballooned; last year, the World Economic Forum calculated that addressing the gap could result in a GDP uplift of $6.5 trillion by 2030. At the same time, the world is bursting with learning content. What, then, is the best way to ensure that people can find and engage with the right content in order to develop the skills needed to close this gap and achieve much-needed business outcomes in your organization?
Create Learning Pathways to Close Your Organization’s Skills Gap
How to curate resources that your employees will actually use.
February 03, 2022
Summary.
How can you guide your workforce to the skills and competencies both you and they need? The answer, for most firms, is the learning pathway: a designated sequence of activities, often from different sources and in different formats, devised to develop the skills and behaviors of colleagues. At their best, learning pathways stitch together disparate educational resources into rich, diverse, cohesive and enlightening learning journeys which can have a transformative impact on both our professional and personal lives. Curation is part art, part science. This article offers a checklist for how to choose, curate, and motivate people to embark upon eye-opening, horizon-broadening, career-enhancing learning pathways.
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