Category: Skills Development

There’s only one way to jump-start the economy and fix the skills crisis: all companies need to prioritize investments in workforce development.

What are the key conditions necessary to foster the kind of enlightened workforce that makes an organization enlightened? A primer.

There’s no procedures manual for building public-private partnerships, but the learning that comes with success and failure illuminates the way forward. One CEO shares her experience.

Current models of business education are preparing students for the world of the past, not the future. That has to change.

Nearly 70% of working-age Americans who are blind are not employed, a figure that is, in large part, the result of a lack of awareness of how easy and inexpensive it is to accommodate employees with disabilities.

How predictive data and analytics can allow you to visually map your team against the work to be done.

Covid-19 both helped and hindered the challenges of retaining and retraining skilled workers, say CEOs.

We need to take students wide across the curriculum, ensuring that they develop a range of attributes—from creativity, ethics and intuition to analytical, quantitative and logic skills.

The pandemic has only increased the gap between education and new-age job requirements and given that it costs up to six times more to hire externally than to reskill current employees, the latter needs to become part of the “new norm.”

That long-term outlook is outdated in a world where CEO tenure has shrunk to, on average, five years. Think shorter term.