Skill Data Dictionary Part 3: Using Your Skill Data

Skill data is complicated. Talking about it and researching it can help, but you’ll often find bloated jargon, acronyms, and sometimes even...

Skill Data Dictionary Part 2: Organization

Welcome back to our Skill Data Dictionary series. If you haven’t already, we recommend you review Part 1, in which we cover the skill data...

Build Your Skills Inventory with Diverse Skill Data

When it comes to data, more is better. This doesn’t just mean more data points, it also means a more diverse set of data points. When building an...

The Ultimate Skill Data Handbook

Most HR, talent, and learning professionals are looking for new ways to be data-driven and strategic about people development. The good news is that...

Tips from TED: Presenting ideas to engage your teams

I’ve watched Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” at least 20 times, and I still laugh at his jokes. I could...

Personalized Learning: The Data Deep Dive

In our previous blog post, we discussed the need to integrate data and functionality from multiple point solutions to deliver experiences to the...

Skill Data Dictionary Part 1: The Basics

Executives are increasingly demanding a more data-driven company culture. But 67% of leaders (senior manager positions and higher) say they are not...

Upskilling Your People: Getting Started with Skill Data

No matter how or why you’re upskilling your people, there’s a reliable way to make learning click: make it relevant. And one of the key...

Skills for Change: The Imperial Brands Transformative Turnaround

Imperial Brands has a history of over 200 years with well-known products that include Davidoff, West and JPS cigarettes and Golden Virginia rolling...

How Visa Created a Learning Culture for 20,000+ People

When the Visa L&D team reimagined workforce development, it wanted to create “an  organization that learns versus a learning...