Skills and Competencies: What is the Difference?

Skills and Competencies: What is the Difference?

READ TIME: 3 minutes. Nearly every day, we hear business people discuss the “skills” and “competencies” their employees need to succeed. The two terms are used together so often that many people think of them as synonyms.  Are they the same?...
How to Close Your Workforce Skills Gaps with Reskilling

How to Close Your Workforce Skills Gaps with Reskilling

READ TIME: 4 minutes. Predictions about how artificial intelligence, automation and augmented reality will affect the workforce range from doomsday scenarios of massive job losses to nirvana sketches of AI-powered machines liberating employees to perform only the most...
How to Assess Your Workforce to Create a Skills Inventory

How to Assess Your Workforce to Create a Skills Inventory

READ TIME: 3 minutes. What’s the one thing that all businesses have in common? They all possess the same #1 asset – the employees! That’s right…human capital. The skillful utilization of human capital is a necessary requirement for managers of all levels, often...
Can Your LMS Do THIS?

Can Your LMS Do THIS?

READ TIME: 4 minutes. Avilar has been proud to address an eclectic mix of business problems through unusual application of our flexible LMS. At Avilar, we are proud of having a learning management system (LMS) that’s enormously flexible. We’ve talked to many learning...