To compete and grow today, no matter what your industry, part of your strategy must be to continually build a smarter workforce. You need employees who are constantly improving their capabilities and knowledge. But there are four critical elements of any smart...
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Chasing The Machine: Does Your Staff Have The Critical Skills To Keep Up With Technology Changes?
Do you know what skills will be most valuable in your organization, given rapid advances in digital technologies? Do you know what capabilities you should be investing in to stay competitive? What skills are becoming less valuable? To make good decisions about...
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Is Learning Overload the New Productivity Crisis?
One of the causes of the current “skills gap” in so many fields is the need to learn too much to do a particular job. The editors at Harvard Business Review agreed with me because they have recently published my blog post on “Learning Overload,” which you can read by...
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How To Be Sure Your Knowledge Transfer Strategy Isn’t A House of Cards
Is your organization living on the edge? Does the loss of vital know-how or failure to document and transfer essential capabilities threaten to: Expose critical points of failure? The expertise needed to maintain special valves for a major chemical company dissipated...
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Stop Solving The Wrong Talent Management Problems
Almost every organization has talent management problems that directly increase their costs or reduce revenues, whether they know it or not. Use the diagnostic below to evaluate your progress in reducing these threats to performance. It will help you answer: Which of...
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How to Profit From the Wisdom of a Non-Profit
The CEO of a large non-profit recently recognized her organization was at risk of losing lots of critical knowledge and relationships because many of its 50 most senior leaders are approaching retirement. Top managers in this geographically distributed environmental...
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