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Bridging The Widening Skill Gaps Of Knowledge Workers

Disprz

Knowledge workers are an intangible asset of a business; however, without the right skill set, they fail to capitalize on lucrative opportunities. Most knowledge workers lack the necessary skills to address the changing market and customer demands. Each role in your organization will need a different set of skills.

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Personalization for Knowledge Workers

Xyleme

This is the 2 nd in a 3 part series addressing the impact of personalization in the education and training markets. In the first post, I addressed the application of personalization in K12. In this post I address use cases that apply to a high-skilled knowledge workforce. Personalization for the high-skill knowledge worker.

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Maximizing employee performance in telecommunications

Learning Pool

On the contrary, automating tasks and processes will enable organizations to redeploy and upskill employees to take on vital strategic roles. Data-centric businesses like telecoms will require cohorts of highly trained, specialized knowledge workers to take them forward.

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Does Your Organization Need a Learning Culture?

The Performance Improvement Blog

If this post describes your organization, you need to make the transition to a learning culture. The amount and complexity of knowledge and skills that each of your employees needs is increasing dramatically every day due to technology and globalization. Likewise, today’s knowledge workers are asked to do more than just complete tasks.

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Future-proofing skills in the technology industry

Learning Pool

While automation and AI will produce many efficiencies – which include making some roles and people redundant – they will also, by transforming business activities, create the need for new roles and new categories of knowledge workers. But whether it’s on an organization-wide or individual level, training must be sustainable.

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Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy - The Podcast

The Performance Improvement Blog

Today's "knowledge worker" is very different from the industrial worker of the past. We no longer need to manage hands; we have no choice but to restructure our organizations and change our approach to management and learning to reflect this historic change. Therefore, managers have to help people develop their minds.

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3 Corporate Training Program Trends in 2021: What Top Organizations Are Doing to Build Resilience

KnowledgeCity

Businesses are making it easier for workers to gain new skills that aren’t just useful for the worker’s current position; these are portable skills that make the worker more valuable everywhere, and, increasingly, contribute to the worker’s overall quality of life. . Trend #3: Holistic Training .

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