May 7, 1:00 PM PDT

Skills Summit- From Urgency to Reality: Bringing Skills to Life In Your Organization

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June 13, 4 PM ET

HR Tech Conference Virtual: Keynote - Learning & Development's Next Chapter: Skills as the North Star

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External Publications

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Why Your Team Members Need Daily Check-Ins

Where your work meets your life. See more from Ascend here. As businesses navigate the new world of hybrid work, ...

Why the Smartest Investments Are Businesses With Learning Equity

In recent years, investors have become more focused than ever on businesses that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. As Mercer put it, ...

Why it's so important for organizations to rebuild connections at work

Connections are crucial for performance in the workplace. Our recent research revealed that, when managers have more connection with their employees (which ...

What's Happening in the People Analytics Technology Market?

People analytics technology is being talked about everywhere, whether it be fear-mongering stories about the tracking of employees at Wall ...

3 Performance Management Trends for the Future of Work

Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to re-examine and update business processes of all kinds. The ...

The Skills Senior Leaders Need to Create a Successful Culture of Diversity and Inclusion

Over the course of the last 18 months or so, senior leaders have had to pay much more attention to ...

What does it mean for HR to integrate inclusion?

We all know that diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) have been much higher on C-suite, board and CHRO agendas than ever ...

How to Build Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Analytics

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, or DEIB, are on the minds of many business leaders today. Yet, to make meaningful ...

Hybrid Work Is a Perfect Opportunity to Create More Fair and Equitable Performance Management Practices

As the pandemic begins to wane in some regions, many leaders are contemplating what’s next. It’s a complicated future. Here's ...

Use Skills to Solve These 4 Business Challenges

If you’re in enterprise learning and development, talent management or strategic workforce planning, you’ve probably been hearing about skills — ...