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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. 87% of companies say they have skill gaps or expect to within a few years.

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Coursera research in the WEF Future of Jobs Report 2023: learners without degrees can learn critical skills just as fast as degree holders

Coursera

Coursera is honored to partner with the WEF to conduct research for the report and demonstrate how skills-based approaches to workforce development can help displaced workers transition into jobs of the future.

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Figure it out

E-Learning Provocateur

As a knowledge worker, you never clock off. And so this leads me to propose an alternative construct for knowledge workers: figure it out. Solving involves thinking, researching, designing, deploying and evaluating. It consumes you to the point that it becomes way more than just a job; it’s a lifestyle.

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See no evil

E-Learning Provocateur

In this research study , strategy consultants who used GPT-4 as a tool to assist them with “inside the frontier” tasks (within the capability of AI) performed significantly better than their counterparts did in terms of quality and productivity. Hence for such tasks, the authors called AI a quality and productivity booster.

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6 Learning and Development Trends You Can’t Miss in 2022

Ontuitive

Research suggests that in an eight-hour day, the average worker is only productive for two hours and 53 minutes. To ensure agility and overall organizational success, L&D will also need to drive employee experience (especially in hybrid work environments) and consider structuring talent management around skills, not roles.

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Skills Capability Building – Knowledge Workforce VS Frontline Workforce

Disprz

Engineers, system analysts, researchers, web designers, architects, IT professionals, etc. fall in the category of knowledge workers. While employees directly facing the customers like delivery executives, restaurant waiters, retail sales reps, etc are considered frontline workers. hours before the pandemic to 2.6

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Harness human skills to build future-ready teams

CLO Magazine

For knowledge workers everywhere, the nature of work is shifting fast. ChatGPT was initially employed for mundane to-dos like researching topics and drafting emails, but now it’s being used to build HTML pages. Put another way, half of the skills knowledge workers have today will be useless in less than five years.

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