Human capital is the biggest asset to any organization and is also the key to achieving business goals. This makes it imperative for organizations to prepare their workforce for the future through continuous learning. Learning the new and unlearning the old is the way to stay relevant in today’s dynamic business environment. The skills needed for most jobs are changing rapidly and our training systems are lagging behind. As such, 35 percent of skills demanded for jobs across industries will change by 2020, according to World Economic Forum. Hence, empowering workers to remodel and update their skills is a key concern for organizations across the globe.
The cover story attempts to dig deep into the current learning and development scenario across industries, initiatives organizations are embracing to tackle the skills gap, technologies that are powering the skilling conundrum, challenges businesses face to skill and re-skill their employees, and what L&D function needs to do to enable organizations to reinvent for tomorrow.
Commitment, advocacy of C-suite is critical for L&D: HP’s Global Head of People Development
The Global Head of People Development at HP, Mike Jordan, in a freewheeling conversation with People Matters, shares intriguing insights on the impact of 4th industrial revolution on the workforce and the skilling scenario and how L&D team of tomorrow need to look like in order to prepare organizations for a digital future by Mastufa Ahmed
This story is from the November 2019 edition of People Matters.
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