If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Performance management (PM) is a critical talent practice for driving individual, team, and organizational performance. Despite being long-standing, many organizations continue to adjust their PM processes—either due to dissatisfaction with current approaches or a belief that more can be done to …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Internal mobility and career development are vital to an organization’s talent strategy. Against this backdrop, LinkedIn’s 2025 Workplace Learning Report explores how organizations are prioritizing employee development and internal mobility. While the report offers many insights, real-world examples provide the most practical takeaways. For …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Chief Learning Officers (CLOs) and their teams understand the importance of aligning learning and development (L&D) programs with organizational strategic priorities to drive measurable business impact. Yet, making this connection is often challenging. This new article highlights five L&D practices …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As many organizations continue to invest in learning and development (L&D) initiatives, LinkedIn’s newly released 2024 Workplace Learning report provides several insights to consider. The 39-page report, based on survey feedback from 1,636 L&D and HR professionals with L&D responsibilities who …
This one-page PDF includes a playlist of five resources for enabling learning and development (L&D) in an organization. These resources include: 2023 LinkedIn Learning Report. This 52-page report dives into various L&D topics, including internal mobility, upskilling/reskilling, and career development, to name a few. The New Learning Environment by Gartner HR. This 42-page issue includes six …
The Learning & Development (L&D) function is critical to achieving an organization’s talent priorities–ranging from upskilling, internal mobility, and employee wellbeing. But for L&D to support the rest of the organization in each of these endeavors, they must identify ways to build their capabilities and future-proof themselves. This 56-page report provides insights into how the L&D …
Organizations use various forms of “coaching” to develop their workers. Despite their effectiveness, many coaching tactics limit how many workers an organization can impact simultaneously, usually due to resource and time constraints and broad manager spans of control, to name a few. But as pointed out in this article, a segment of firms is combining …
Jobs have traditionally been the unit of analysis for organizing work. But as work becomes less predictable, more fluid, and affected by rapid disruption, many argue that work should be organized by skills and tasks rather than fixed and static jobs. And while jobs won’t completely go away any time soon, skills and task-based approaches …
The shelf-life of skills continues to decline rapidly, presenting challenges to firms as they prioritize upskilling and reskilling efforts. According to BCG’s 2021 research on 32 HR and people practices, upskilling and reskilling ranked second in terms of the most significant gaps between current capabilities and future importance. Similarly, LinkedIn’s 2021 Workplace Learning Report found that upskilling and …
I have shared several posts highlighting how firms are unlocking workforce capacity by redeploying the skills of their workers to company projects versus simply roles and jobs. This article shares aspects of Unilever’s flex-work program that encourage employees to “explore new parts of the business, contribute in different ways, and develop new skills and passions” via project work. To support this …
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