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Unlocking Potential: Embrace a Skills-Based Future


 

Taking advantage of great skills data is no longer optional — it’s essential.

Business is entering its skills era. For innovators like you, it’s time for a strategic plan to become a skills-based organization (SBO) before you’re stuck playing catch-up with traditionalists.

The transition is exciting, it’s daunting, and — for now — it’s still abstract. But one thing is clear: there are tactics and strategies you can implement today to put your company ahead of the curve. Transforming into an SBO means better talent management, better employee retention and better business results.

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The Decade Ahead: Evolving Your Company into a Skills-Based Organization

The Decade Ahead: Evolving Your Company into a Skills-Based Organization

Ten years from now, traditional job roles will have likely gone the way of the flip phone. “You won’t get paid based on your job title or...

What the Hell Is Skill Data? 3 Ways You Can Use It for Agile L&D

What the Hell Is Skill Data? 3 Ways You Can Use It for Agile L&D

Skill data seems complicated. By definition, skill data includes data points that relate to the capability, demonstration, or definition of a skill. In short, it’s the measurement of what your people can do. 

The skills-based organization: A new operating model for work and the workforce

The skills-based organization: A new operating model for work and the workforce

The most fundamental building block of work—the job—could be hampering many organizations. Instead, many are now applying skills-based models to meet the demand for agility, agency, and equity.

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Creating a Common Language for Skills that Drives the Future of Work

Creating a Common Language for Skills that Drives the Future of Work

Creating foundations is one of the oldest human activities. These stone, wood, mud and straw structures that stabilize homes and buildings date back as far as the Neolithic Age....

LENS 2023: Putting Skills at the Center of Business Structure

LENS 2023: Putting Skills at the Center of Business Structure

We all started with traditional job titles and descriptions, but people’s skills are too diversified and the business world is too fast-paced to keep putting employees into everchanging boxes.

Making Skills The Great Equalizer: L&D Enables DEIB

Making Skills The Great Equalizer: L&D Enables DEIB

The number of DEIB programs at colleges and universities is growing, but your company can’t wait up to four years for newly-minted DEIB experts to arrive...

DID YOU KNOW?

Skills-based organizations are 98% more likely to retain high performers.*

*Deloitte 2023 LENS presentation

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Open Ecosystem

Opening up Learning Ecosystems

To create a skills-based organization, you need a lot of data. Most organizations have trouble aggregating that data because it resides on many disparate platforms — that’s where an open ecosystem comes in. Find out what an open ecosystem is, how to enhance yours, and how to use it to become skills-based.

Polaris

Enhancing Agility

“Long-term, the goal starts with skills. We're In a volatile industry. Everything is complex and it’s ambiguous. We need a plan that can be fluid and move with the way the business changes.”

– Naomee Lazo, Polaris Global Manufacturing Training Manager

PointClickCare

Prioritizing Mobility

One key skills-based practice is identifying a skill need and filling it internally. By knowing which skills you have and which you need, you can better challenge and develop employees. PointClickCare tackled employee retention, providing people full visibility into internal growth opportunities and mentors and reducing barriers to growth that cause people to leave.

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Why Degreed?

Build Skills

People prefer learning in a variety of ways, according to our latest How the Workforce Learns report. That means it behooves employers to offer several types of learning opportunities — and that’s where Degreed comes in. Adding to standard consumable content, the Experiential Learning tool offers stretch assignments, projects, and shadowing opportunities, while the Academies and Education Benefits functions allows learning spend for full-length courses, certifications and more.

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Track Skills

In addition to each employee having an individual skills profile and multiple skills rating options, Degreed can consolidate skills data into a single view to assist with the decision-making needed to operate an SBO. With millions of learners actively engaging with Degreed regularly and a plethora of integrations with other platforms, Degreed has a unique ability to add more dynamic details to static data sources like Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and core HR systems.

Understand Skills

Data is no good without a way to make sense of it. Degreed offers a Skills Coach tool that allows people leaders to assign learning and set skill goals for teams and individuals. This feature enhances productivity and mobility across your workforce. Additionally, the Advanced Analytics function ensures full visibility into team learning, skill levels and possible skill gaps. 

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Degreed connects all types of partner vendors into a single platform that then creates this really robust world of learning that is very skills based, very role-based, and very functionality-based.

CLO at Professional Services Company

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