Upskilling, reskilling, and retaining talent have been on my mind lately. And I’m not alone. The need for upskilling has been noted by 87% of CEOs (McKinsey, 2020) and as a top priority by 59% of L&D professionals (LinkedIn, 2021). …

How Your Learning and Development Department Evolves into What’s Next — For decades, most Learning and Development (L&D) departments have focused on, well, learning and development. Learning new policies and procedures, developing people to prepare for new roles, and tracking completions. This has sufficient- as long as the focus was to provide and track employee training. …

Being ahead of the curve has never mattered so much — In 2018, Justin Trudeau (the Prime Minister of Canada) addressed the World Economic Forum stating, “The pace of change has never been this fast, yet it will never be this slow again.” This was a year before the COVID pandemic hit and two years before Operation Warp Speed was launched…

The COVID-19 global pandemic supercharged the pace of change. Take the development of critical, new vaccines. In the past two years, the time to develop these types of drugs has been slashed from 10 years to 10 months. That is an exponential change- one that is transforming the life sciences…

Are You Thinking Platforms, Content, or Both? — Last month, I needed to assemble a desk. This may seem random- but go with me for a moment. There was a screw that I needed to tighten in order to anchor the top to the rest of the desk. If I had a screwdriver, that would have been great…

Evolve your siloed learning platforms into integrated, multi-platform workflows — A decade or two ago, your organization’s learning ecosystem was probably comprised of just one thing: a Learning Management System (LMS). It was the only game in town and it did a decent job at its core function: It was a system of record that hosted and tracked your catalog…

According to a recent global survey of over 1,500 CEOs by PwC, businesses are faced with a skills gap that they can’t hire their way out of at a price they can pay. They know they must invest in upskilling their workforce or risk irrelevance. …

Explore how the 70/20/10 design has evolved — If your organization is like most, your workforce landscape has been changing in recent years. There are probably many leaders in your organization who are seeking to upskill your workers’ capabilities to match a rapidly changing workplace environment. …

When we designed the learning experiences of our Qstream pilots at Providence, we knew the benefits could be viewed from several perspectives. …