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Empower Your Workforce for AI Success: Bridge the Skills Gap

Empower Your Workforce for AI Success: Bridge the Skills Gap

Unlock your organization's potential by leveraging existing skills and addressing gaps to ensure AI adoption success.Organizations already possess a wealth of skills that can be pivotal in AI adoption. Identifying and leveraging these skills can lay a strong...

From Planning to Action: Strategic Roadmaps for AI Adoption

From Planning to Action: Strategic Roadmaps for AI Adoption

Transform your organization with a strategic roadmap for AI adoption. Lead with resilience and agility to achieve real business results.Successful AI adoption requires more than technology; an organizational culture that thrives in ambiguity and sees challenges as...

Skills-Based Recruiting is Challenging, But Doesn’t Need to Be

Skills-Based Recruiting is Challenging, But Doesn’t Need to Be

Unlock the potential of your workforce by transitioning to a skills-based recruiting approach. Discover the complexities and solutions to effectively implement this transformative strategy.Skills-based recruiting focuses on identifying and hiring candidates based on...

Shift to Skills-Based Recruiting: Understanding the Why and How

Shift to Skills-Based Recruiting: Understanding the Why and How

Drivers of Skills-Based Recruiting “The only constant in life is change, and the pace of change is accelerating.” - Peter Diamandis. Market Dynamics Today, we face 21st-century Challenges. Change is compounding at a rate never before seen. Traditional recruiting...

The HR Burnout Crisis: How To Address the Stress

The HR Burnout Crisis: How To Address the Stress

The HR burnout crisis has reached alarming levels in recent years, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The role of HR has significantly evolved, with HR professionals now finding themselves at the forefront of managing the well-being of the workforce. This has...

The 3rd “Q” in talent3Q: Adversity

In today's volatile business climate, organizations are navigating what can only be described as a 'Russian doll' of change—each layer revealing another, equally complex challenge. From the global pandemic and the transition to remote and hybrid work models, to the...

Durable Learning, Demonstrable Business Impact

Where do skills fit in designing roles that deliver durable outcomes and impacts? What do we need to do differently?Ali Uren is the Founder of Kiikstart and Designer of The Circular Workplace. A dynamic force in tackling organizational brain drain, Ali serves her...

What is Return on Skills (ROS)?

Unlocking the True Value of Skill DevelopmentWant to learn more about ROS? Read Ali's blog post!Traditional learning metrics like attendance and completion rates often fail to capture the true impact of skill development. These superficial indicators may provide a...

What is Return On Skills – ROS

Learning and Development, and in particular skill development, continues to receive lots of attention, investment and airtime but often falls short of expectations in terms of delivering measurable results.Ali Uren is the Founder of Kiikstart and Designer of The...

Continuous Learning – A Strategic Imperative

Discover how embracing a culture of learning can transform your organization, drive innovation, and empower your team to thrive in a rapidly changing world.Malvika Jethmalani is a 3x CHRO and the Co-Founder of Atvis Group – a human capital advisory firm driven by the...

Rethinking Workforce Reductions with Data Driven Decisions

HR Consulting Leaders Unlock the potential of your organization by moving beyond traditional workforce reduction methods. Embrace a future where skills and data drive strategic decisions.Empower your HR strategies with a focus on skills rather than tenure, ensuring...

Outcome-Based Learning Needs an Outcome

I’m dedicated to developing high-performance DNA across organizations, teams, and individuals across diverse industries. While my recent history is in sales transformation, my roots are in learning and development having always been involved in the creation of...

Career pathing at the speed of change: Building agile development models to retain talent

Vanessa is an accomplished organization development strategist with 14 years of experience in shaping transformative cultures at top companies such as Etsy, Kobalt Music, and Gap Inc. Known for her strategic insight and skill in fostering psychologically safe...

Driving Organizational Success in the 21st Century

In today's business environment, understanding the "why" behind actions is far more critical than simply mastering the "how." From a Global Pandemic and the resulting working-from-home revolution to economic headwinds and AI, the fundamental demands for skills are...

Bridging the Employer-Employee Trust Gap

Trust in the workplace is in crisis. Recent research on trust reveals that only one-third of employees trust management at their company. On the employer side, trust in employees is also eroding. The proliferation of workplace surveillance tactics - ranging from...