Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Given all the focus on SkillsTech, how will companies build a Skills System of Record? This has become one of the biggest topics in HR, and EdCast has just introduced Skills DNA, a family of tools to help make this possible.
Let me explain why this topic is so important. As most of you ... Read more»
Last year I wrote about The War Of The Skills Clouds, and pointed out that there was a war for “SkillsTech” heating up. Well, it’s now red hot and Oracle has jumped into the pool. And they’re going to make a splash.
Skills Taxonomy software is now a huge market, and it’s ... Read more»
The corporate learning market is growing like crazy. More than $4 billion is spent on content providers like LinkedIn, Coursera, Udemy, SkillSoft, and others – and the predominant paradigm is video. Video, a medium that exploded since the launch of iPhone and YouTube, is now one of the most compelling ways to tell a ... Read more»
Of all the changes going on in business, none is quite as disruptive as the shift to a marketplace model. While all companies have CEOs, senior leaders, and many forms of management, employees are more empowered and unleashed than ever. And this means that CEOs and managers can no longer “tell people what to ... Read more»
Skillsoft, one of the largest training companies in the world, is like a cat with nine lives. And this week it went public, for the second or third time.
What? Let me try to explain.
In the early days of e-learning (circa 2000), Skillsoft was the first online learning company focused on softskills. Hence ... Read more»
As every company struggles to better hire and reskill its employees, the number one challenge is data. What skills do we have? What skills do we need? And what skills are in the outside job market and how do we find them?
This problem, which is Galaxial in scope, is on the minds of lots ... Read more»
Let’s face it, recruiting is getting tough. With more than 14 million jobs open in the US and people getting on planes and going back to restaurants, demand for everything has skyrocketed. And as most of you know, the supply chain of people is stretched thin.
As companies build their hybrid work strategies (our new ... Read more»
This summer is the two-year anniversary of the Josh Bersin Academy and I want to give you an update. Not only have we grown to more than 30,000 members and 400+ corporate clients, we discovered something important. The capabilities of HR are the biggest opportunity you have to make your company grow. Let me explain.... Read more»
Back in 2015, Rachel Carlson founded a company designed to help working adults without a college degree gain education through employer tuition benefits. It was a noble and important idea, so CEOs took notice. Today, that company, Guild Education, is valued at $3.75 Billion. And it’s starting to grow like crazy.
Why? Unlike traditional ... Read more»
It’s almost summer and the Pandemic is starting to ebb, so everyone’s talking about Hybrid Work. But as I think about the Fall and year ahead, I think there’s a bigger storm coming – a storm caused by the recovery. It’s not a bad storm, but it’s a storm – and the rate of ... Read more»
As I’m sure you’ve read, Remote Work is here to stay. Not only did we thrive during the Pandemic, but two-thirds of employees prefer it. Remote work saves time on commute, saves money on dressing up, and helps people deal with family issues at home.
Yes, there are issues: we have to avoid ... Read more»
Running a business can be a complex affair: you have to build products and services that customers want, you have to innovate to compete and stay relevant, and you have to manage sales, marketing, operations, and distribution. This is why there are so many business books and magazines: more than 2 million books per year ... Read more»
We just finished a series of conversations with senior HR leaders about the topic of social justice. And the consensus is yes, we need to give people a safe place to discuss these issues at work. But let’s not let it get out of hand.
As many of you may have read, last week a ... Read more»
The global recovery from the Pandemic is creating some pretty big changes: people working remotely, new safety and wellbeing programs, and more digital tools than ever. But the biggest of all is now clear: we’re not going to have enough workers to go around.
I discussed this in an article last month, and this ... Read more»
The market for online performance management software has been fascinating. For more than a decade vendors have been building new tools to enable goal management, check-ins, feedback, and alignment. And now we’ve added surveys and feedback to the mix.
This week 15Five, one of the fastest-growing vendors, announced the acquisition of Emplify, a leading ... Read more»