How to Bolster The Employee Experience With Competencies

How to Bolster The Employee Experience With Competencies

READ TIME: 4 minutes. “Employee experience” is all the rage right now, and for good reason. An employee’s journey with your company – from recruitment and onboarding, to development and productivity, through post-exit interactions – can directly affect employee...
Why Competency Projects Fail (And How to Avoid It)

Why Competency Projects Fail (And How to Avoid It)

READ TIME: 4 minutes. Competencies are the collective knowledge, abilities, and expertise of an organization’s workforce. When used as a framework to focus individual, team, and company skills on what matters most, a well-honed competency program will make an...
Should You Adopt Reverse Mentoring at Your Workplace?

Should You Adopt Reverse Mentoring at Your Workplace?

READ TIME: 3 minutes. Last week, Cambridge University announced a new reverse mentoring initiative aimed at addressing charges of institutional racism. Introduced by the university’s equality and diversity department, the program pairs senior white academics and...
How to Optimize Workforce Allocation with Competencies

How to Optimize Workforce Allocation with Competencies

READ TIME: 3 minutes. Government and commercial leaders routinely plan for five or ten years out – sometimes even more. They’re making decisions about what markets to pursue – and which to pull back from. What products or solutions to develop. Which target partners to...
How to Unlock the Expertise Economy with Upskilling

How to Unlock the Expertise Economy with Upskilling

READ TIME: 4 minutes. Sixty-four percent of CEOs feel they must upskill or reskill 25 percent of their workforce over the next five years for their companies to stay relevant. McKinsey & Company, Skill Shift: Automation and the Future of the Workforce, May 2018...