The Skills Obsession
Why Skills?
It seems like everywhere we look, people are talking about skills. Upskilling. Reskilling. Skill gaps. Skills data. In short, there seems to be a skills obsession.
In this podcast season, we talked to thinkers, writers, leaders, and practitioners about the current state of thinking on why and how we are managing skills at the people and organizational level. We specifically cover topics such as:
- What are organizations’ overall purpose in focusing on skills, both now and in the future? What are they actually doing, and what is their aspiration?
- How are organizations identifying, quantifying, and communicating about skills?
- How are employees being involved in the identification, validation, and upkeep of skills? To what extent do employees “own” skills?
- What are the different roles of technology in understanding, quantifying, and maintaining skills?
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Episodes
0: The Skills Obsession: Opening Arguments
Dani Johnson & Stacia Garr, Co-founders & Principal Analysts
RedThread Research
Chris Pirie
Learning Futures Group
1: Designing the Skills Future
Lisa Kay Solomon, Futures and Design
Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford d.school
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2: The Price of Skills Debt
Matthew Daniel, Principal Consultant
Guild Education
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3: The Realities of Building a Tech-Enabled Skills Framework
Madhura Chakrabarti, Global Head, People Analytics
Syngenta
4: Learning the Many Languages of Skills
Nuno Congalves, Global Head of Strategic Capability Building
Mars
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5: Why L&D Needs to Lose The 'Men in Black' Mindset
Satnam Sagoo, Director of Learning and Organizational Development
British Red Cross
6: A 'third' age of human capital management
Greg Pryor, Senior VP, People & Performance Evangelist
Workday
7: Why Skills Inventory is a Nut Worth Cracking
Rob Lauber, former Chief Learning Officer
McDonalds
8: What a Mindset of Enablement Actually Looks Like
Karen Kocher, Global General Manager, Talent & Learning Experiences & Workforce of the Future
Microsoft