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3 ways to build adaptive global workforce skills

CLO Magazine

Organizations aim to stay agile while upskilling and reskilling the critical talent needed to take advantage of change. This puts employees at a disadvantage in building an agile, adaptive culture. Deep-rooted cultural differences play a significant role in shaping attitudes toward many of the programs offered by employers.

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How to Respond to the Rise of the Agile Workforce

CLO Magazine

As the rise of the agile workforce continues, terms like temp, consultant or freelancer will continue to blur along with it. After all, almost half of companies are committed to building an agile workforce model, according to a December 2016 report from staffing firm Randstad. CLO: What’s the value in building an agile workforce?

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Mind over matter: leadership mindsets and actions to drive results

CLO Magazine

If we can bring a different attitude to our role as a leader, if we can shift our mindset, we can impact our behaviors. And our behaviors, in turn, can alter our attitude long-term. A growth mindset, we believe, is one of the big four, and perhaps the biggest but not the only attitude we want our leaders to bring to their role.

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The mindset of a lifelong learner

CLO Magazine

To be agile and adaptable, you need to learn, do, unlearn — learn, do, rest — learn, do, unlearn — repeat. Instilling lifelong learning ensures talent remains agile, adaptable and ready to fill the next organizational gap. The process involves attitude adjustments and the kind of effort you may not be accustomed to.

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Becoming a learning enterprise is a culture-change journey

CLO Magazine

Yet top-down power relationships, decision-making and attitudes toward failure still exude “traditional enterprise.”. Amid the traditional, something new is trying to emerge — an enterprise that is more fluid and agile, ecological, innovative and quick to recognize and mine insights from problems. Not Just an Add-On.

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The Reskilling Revolution versus the ‘clay layer’

CLO Magazine

A Reskilling Revolution will depend critically on a mentally agile workforce that is willing and able to change as the demand characteristics for labor change. I contend that a broad swath of the global workforce has not practically adopted a lifelong learning approach, nor has it adopted the mental agility to change and grow.

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An arduous year and a half at work punctuates soft skills

CLO Magazine

“Now, the need for compassion, flexibility, listening, is really flipped to leadership and the management of the organization in a very escalated way,” says Marti Konstant, workplace futurist and author of “Activate Your Agile Career.”. The role of the CLO.

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