Our Toward a Smarter Workforce series rounds up news and articles relating to the latest research and insights about developing and retaining a multi-generational workforce. For this week’s roundup, we’ve reviewed three recent articles about critical...
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Are You Actually Building a Smarter Workforce?
To compete and grow today, no matter what your industry, part of your strategy must be to continually build a smarter workforce. You need employees who are constantly improving their capabilities and knowledge. But there are four critical elements of any smart...
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Leading With Less: 5 Keys to Thriving in a World of Resource Constraints
Being forced to do more with less time, less staff, and fewer resources for professional development often seems an impossible task. But leaders today are routinely asked to do more with reduced assets. Here are five practical solutions for one of leadership’s ongoing...
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Chasing The Machine: Does Your Staff Have The Critical Skills To Keep Up With Technology Changes?
Do you know what skills will be most valuable in your organization, given rapid advances in digital technologies? Do you know what capabilities you should be investing in to stay competitive? What skills are becoming less valuable? To make good decisions about...
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Lessons From the Accounting Skills Gap Can Improve Your Hiring
Should you be worried about critical skill shortages in the accounting profession? The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) recently asked me to do a guest blog post on solutions to this problem. Click here to read that post on how to prioritize your most costly...
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Is Learning Overload the New Productivity Crisis?
One of the causes of the current “skills gap” in so many fields is the need to learn too much to do a particular job. The editors at Harvard Business Review agreed with me because they have recently published my blog post on “Learning Overload,” which you can read by...
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