Skills: Your Secret Weapon to Workforce Agility
Building an agile workforce is quickly becoming a necessity instead of a choice. That is if you still want to remain relevant and competitive in the ever-changing business world.
Developing an agile workforce and the platforms required to support them involves strategic and careful planning between business objectives and talent management strategies based on skills. However, once in place, agile workers will empower your organization to respond rapidly and effectively to new challenges, disruptions, and business needs.
In this edition of?The People Leaders Newsletter, we'll explore the skills-based approach behind nurturing an agile workforce that's ready for tomorrow and the main skills that drive workforce agility and success. Enjoy the reading!??
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Building an Agile Workforce: How Skills Are Your Secret Weapon
Creating an agile workforce is crucial for businesses that want to stay ahead of the competition and respond fast to disruptions and customer expectations. And it all starts with a skills-based approach that empowers employees to build new future-ready skills and move fluidly within your organization.
Skills and Pillars of an Agile Workforce
As companies look to stay competitive in the rapidly changing business environment, the focus has shifted to workforce agility and skills-based approaches. In this article, we explore the essential skills of agile workers and the pillars on which an agile workforce can be developed.
?? Tips from HR Superstars
We hope that this new column has already become a habit for you and that it provides helpful tips from other HR peers, like yourself. In this edition, we've found useful advice from Kate Scapens, which you can find below.
Kate Scapens has over 20 years of experience when it comes to talent assessment and psychometric technology. Currently, she is the Managing Director of AON's Assessment Solutions. Follow her on LinkedIn for more insightful posts.
?? Hand-picked articles we loved
AIHR : Agile Workforce Planning: A Guide for HR
The article argues that planning and creating an agile workforce is a continuous process and highlights the crucial role of HR teams. It also explores the agile workforce planning methodology and the suitability of workforce agility for various organizations.
McKinsey : Enterprise Agility: Buzz or Business Impact?
This post presents research on the powerful impact and benefits of embracing agility in the work environment. One of the outcomes of this transformation is a 20-30% increase in financial performance, according to the data.
AON : To Build Workforce Agility, Look at These Six Factors
The author of this article explores 6 different influencing factors that impact workforce agility and performance. Managing people's risk is the one that grabbed our attention. What do you think?
Podcast Alert: Mercer: The Benefits of Talent Sharing
Here's a short transcript from this podcast episode we totally recommend: "Leaders will keep pushing the button and pressing forward on how to be more effective and strategic around how they manage talent. And I think a key to that is a better understanding of the role of skills and how skills can enable organizational agility and also can unlock the power of people."
???In the Spotlight
Raluca Apostol, CPO and co-founder of Nestor, on the stage at the Tomorrow@Work event
?? We are excited to share with you that Raluca Apostol , CPO and co-founder at Nestor , took the stage at the event, which focuses on the future of work and the impact of technologies in this space.?
Raluca shared her valuable insights on why #skills have become an essential aspect of modern business and how to effectively implement a Skills-based People Strategy.
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?? Skills are indeed the secret weapon for driving #workforceagility in today's fast-paced business world. ?? By aligning shifting business priorities to talent decisions, skills allow employees to fluidly move within your organization, adapting and thriving in their roles. ?? Investing in skills development and creating a culture of continuous learning empowers employees to meet new challenges and innovate in their roles. ?? Prioritizing skills development positions organizations for success and ensures their workforce is prepared to meet the demands of the future.
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1 年Nestor Definitely going to be a necessity for sure. To succeed.it is absolutely changing how we engage in lots in an agile workplace!! within workforces currently, and it is going to change and transform lots still.to be seen. More Agile SERVICES/deliverables/ PRODUCTS, AGILE TEAMS.There is also the side of an Incremental approach to better develop and also build in maintain cultures "killing " facilities in underdeveloped economies & others,which make us see huge tax payers invested in huge property development, wasted over ,a very short time after opened for use! This can be avoided if well established agile incremental facility maintance procedures are designed & put in place. All of these and more are plenty gaps AGILE principles can drive for good that will require an understanding,to be able to disruptively apply an AGILITY aproach that will change the present status quo!!!! Inevitable too, as it is becoming THE FUTURE approach!. AGILE it must be to achieve or success within the fast-pace business World we all daily operate and the dynamic tech market growing and "boiling hot " as well for those that can "catch the heat" and upskill with agility to engage disruptively and #arising daily too!!
DIRECTOR HR (SHRBP- OB,OC,OD & COS- at AEQUITAS INFOTECH (Contractual) EX- PREMIER AUTO (NOW FIAT INDIA)
1 年Well put
Founder and Director @ Clement Leadership Development | MBA
1 年I agree that agility is a critical element. Would you say reflection is too?