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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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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. These include communications, leadership , data analytics, and general problem-solving skills.

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VUCA, or how to do business in interesting times

Matrix

Many knowledge workers now perform their jobs remotely, while governments and individual business organizations look for ways to keep the world going. Finding the right solution to address the problems one faces on a daily basis is quite a challenge. Read more: 3 Crucial steps in ensuring business agility. Complexity.

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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. Put another way, half of the skills knowledge workers have today will be useless in less than five years. One app in particular, the generative AI tool ChatGPT, was adopted practically overnight by professionals in a range of roles. Imagine, indeed.

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I Feel the Need - The Need for Speed

Tony Karrer

If you are reading this, you are a knowledge worker. Consider the content (knowledge, information, learning) you personally need to get your job done. And when you consider the trends for most concept workers (knowledge workers), we clearly are heading towards faster moving content aimed at smaller audiences.

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10 resources that I found valuable in January 2013

Jane Hart

All this information and collaboration should make companies more agile, but technology often undermines organizations that don’t know how to harness its strengths. “When Taylor started working, nine out of ten people were manual workers. Today, nine out of ten people are knowledge workers.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Gartner , a research institute, estimates that the frequency of nonroutine situations that require tacit knowledge will double between 2006 and 2010.