Are you learning?

How can we make sure there are always opportunities to learn in our roles?  If learning is the secret to thriving in a world that is constantly changing – how do business leaders ensure the importance of learning in our jobs isn’t underestimated?

There’s no doubt that global disruption, economic challenges and skills shortages, are still bearing down on most organisations. Addressing these problems requires new and better skills, and organisational learning and development is the way through this.

Discussions about AI and how it might impact jobs is constant at the moment.  If we’re going to respond with agility, then we need to build more relevant skills, more quickly.  One way to do this is to look at skill building at an individual level, e.g. offering opportunities for career development and internal mobility.  Here are some other organisation-wide aspects of learning to consider:

• Invest in cross-functional relationships
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Improve your data literacy
• Activate people managers
• Prioritise your own learning

In my experience, human skills are still the most critical to my clients, especially those concerning management, communication, leadership and teamworking.  I also know from experience that career development is fundamental to the employee experience.  The challenge is to meld the two and ensure the learning opportunities you provide will improve retention and stretch your employees.

If you’d like to discuss skills development priorities in your organisation - I’d love to help.