Skills

This past week on LinkedIn I wrote about four trailblazers in the early days of the industry, learning systems – and what made them special (one has since hit speed bump), and four who trailblazed and then hit a major speed bump into, well, lost their way. The latter included an authoring tool, too. Numerous…

Remote workers.  Deskless workers.  Regardless of the preferred term, your employees, your customers are likely working from home.  They are not coming into your office or some other facility.   And with that, becomes a challenge for L&D and Training.  The Good Old Days  – As in early Feb. 2020 Let’s look into our crystal ball…

The future of work.  It’s being pushed out everywhere you turn. How COVID19 will speed up the future of work.  How COVID19 is changing the future of work. How the future of work is a digital one, which is the next industrial revolution. You hear about companies applying the future of work, by allowing some…

Back in January (2021), I wrote about the Talent Development Platform market and how I identified what is a TDP, among other items. In March (2021), I identified where the Corporate Learning System market is heading, including the identification of three groups that will define the segments. Both of these items are mentioned because they…

Did you know? Between now and 2027, 60% of workers will need retraining due to global transformation and macrotrends. That’s one of many findings in the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Future of Jobs Report. It reflects 800+ global employers’ views of skills and jobs over the next 5 years—and it features Coursera data that highlights fast…

The Future of Skills. I’m sure you have heard this phrase. It’s everywhere. Some sites provide the answer to the question – “What are the skills of the future?” Yet, that shouldn’t be the question. What should be the first question – “What do skills of the future mean?” “How does it apply to those…

Automatic Pot Stirrers. Until yesterday, I had no idea this even existed, and only learned about it (a learning experience) from an Uncommon Goods catalog. I saw it, and thought this is a clever idea. I then did what folks who see products that think “maybe I’ll buy it” go online to do comparision pricing.…

I’ve heard from a couple of vendors who play in the EdTech market (defined as K-12 and higher education), that believe skills, specifically skills capabilities can be successful at the higher education sector. It’s a novel approach, actually interesting, in one way, but it comes with assumptions, and if anyone who has studied the EdTech…

Which came first? The chicken or dinner at KFC? Knowledge or Skill building and development? Skills today are super hot and as a few readers mentioned the other day on LinkedIn, it is not new. Yes, there have been systems with skills frameworks and skills tied to career development (but I’d argue more with TM/PM…

If you have ever been unfortunate enough to watch my Dinner with Andre, you will recall it is two people across from one another talking. That’s it. Yes, I know, Academy Award material. Anyway, this won’t be that. I met up with GPT-4 earlier this week. The sun was out for our midday discussion. GPT-4…