Experts Skills Roundtable: Strategies for Building a Collaborative and Supportive Virtual Work Culture

As companies compete for top talent in the global marketplace, a strong skills culture remains a vital component of any successful skills strategy. Top talent is attracted to companies with the right values and culture that support career development, mobility, and success.?

A key aspect of this culture is a supportive, skills-focused learning environment. This can include providing access to relevant learning resources, establishing mentoring programs, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.

With most companies embracing more remote, virtual, and hybrid work models, the focus has shifted to creating effective virtual or hybrid teams and nurturing a supportive virtual work culture.?

This theme resonated in our recent roundtable session as we discussed skills strategy and culture. Our roundtable sessions are a meeting of HR, talent, and learning executives and experts from various industries. We share ideas, challenges and best practices on a wide range of industry and company-specific issues.?

In each session, we review the skills strategic framework that serves as the basis of all our discussions, and anchor the group in the most important concepts for building a successful skills strategy.?

Strategic Skills Framework?

We developed this framework to make sense of skills, what the major components of the strategy are, and where and how to focus.

Skills is a deep, complex topic with interdependent components. Here are some basic tenets of this framework:?

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