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El mundo empresarial ha entrado en una tormenta perfecta en la que nos enfrentamos simultáneamente a numerosos retos y oportunidades.
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The business world has entered a perfect storm in which we simultaneously face many challenges and opportunities.
The Future of Education
In a world where disruptions can occur at any time, academic institutions must be ready to adapt. By Nick van Dam and Noémie Le Pertel • August 04, 2020 Illustration by iStock WE’RE LIVING IN an age where we’re seeing the disappearance of existing structures, patterns, codes, rules, and institutions that once provided stable foundations in society and guided people’s behaviors. The late sociologist Zymunt Bauman described this phenomenon in his book Liquid Modernity.
What Happens Next? Experts Offer Post-Pandemic Predictions
How will business, education, and the workplace all be changed in the wake of the coronavirus? by Sharon Shinn • August 04, 2020 Illustration by iStock WHAT WILL THE world look like once we’ve made it through the COVID-19 crisis? To what extent will society return to normal, and to what extent will it be changed in fundamental ways? To answer those questions, we asked experts to take closer looks at the impact the coronavirus will have in three distinct areas: education, work, and the economy.
Experiential learning: What’s missing in most change programs
There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education. —John Dewey (Experience and Education, 1938) Leading organizations in every walk of life have already had to cope with more change in this millennium than was seen in the entire second half of the previous century. Most global companies have undergone more than one technological and workforce reorganization in the past decade.
Seven essential elements of a lifelong-learning mind-set
In a rapidly changing workplace, employees need to keep learning to remain relevant and in demand. Seven practices can help them be mindful in their career path and achieve success. Organizations around the world are experiencing rapid, sweeping changes in what they do, how they do it, and even why they do it. Increasing globalization and new technologies demand new modes of working and talent with new and diverse skills. To flourish in this environment, individuals must keep learning new skills.
Essential components of a learning and development strategy
Over the past decade, the global workforce has been continually evolving because of a number of factors. An increasingly competitive business landscape, rising complexity, and the digital revolution are reshaping the mix of employees. Meanwhile, persistent uncertainty, a multigenerational workforce, and a shorter shelf life for knowledge have placed a premium on reskilling and upskilling.
The essential components of a successful L&D strategy
The ACADEMIES framework is a useful tool for conceptualizing learning strategy. Over the past decade, the global workforce has been continually evolving because of a number of factors. An increasingly competitive business landscape, rising complexity, and the digital revolution are reshaping the mix of employees. Meanwhile, persistent uncertainty, a multigenerational workforce, and a shorter shelf life for knowledge have placed a premium on reskilling and upskilling.
From lifelong learning to lifelong employability
As robots and algorithms continue to become more central to the workplace, workers and employers face the enormous task of figuring out how to cope. No longer is automation a thing of the future: the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) estimates that half of today's work activities coordinated by humans could be automated with present-day technology. If recent experience is any indicator, few organizations or individuals are prepared for such a transition.
Vantagem competitiva com uma dimensão humana: do aprendizado ao longo da vida inteira à empregabilidade vitalícia
Diante dos avanços da automação viabilizada por inteligência artificial, as organizações hoje devem pensar em adotar a “empregabilidade vitalícia”, que amplia as noções tradicionais de aprendizado e desenvolvimento, e pode contribuir para que os trabalhadores se adaptem mais habitualmente às constantes mudanças da economia.
Ventaja competitiva con una dimensión humana: Del aprendizaje continuo a la aptitud para el empleo durante toda la vida laboral
Con el avance de la inteligencia artificial y la automatización, las organizaciones deben ponerse como meta la aptitud para el trabajo de sus empleados, que sobrepasa las nociones conocidas de aprendizaje y desarrollo y puede inspirar a los trabajadores a adaptarse en forma rutinaria a la evolución de la economía. Con la creciente relevancia de robots y algoritmos en el ámbito de trabajo, trabajadores y empleadores se enfrentan a la enorme tarea de descifrar cómo lidiar con este desafío.
Don’t stress out: how to build long-term resilience
December 10, 2018Imagine that you’re about to present to the executive board on the progress of a large-scale transformation. Although you’ve worked for many long nights to develop a compelling presentation, your stomach starts churning as soon as you enter the boardroom. Once in front of the board, you accidentally tip over a glass of water. Then, a few minutes in, the CFO asks you how much money this transformation will save the company.
Don’t stress out: how to build long-term resilience
While we often turn to quick external solutions, building long-term resilience to stress starts from within. Imagine that you’re about to present to the executive board on the progress of a large-scale transformation. Although you’ve worked for many long nights to develop a compelling presentation, your stomach starts churning as soon as you enter the boardroom. Once in front of the board, you accidentally tip over a glass of water.
Lifelong learning will be the bedrock of Industry 4.0
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, between 400 million and 800 million people globally could be displaced by automation and need to find new jobs by 2030. Because of this, the need for employees to upskill and retrain themselves will likely be the biggest challenge of the coming decade. And with the World Economic Forum predicting that the human share of labour hours will drop from 71% to 48% by just 2025, are we running out of time?
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Accepting a Job Offer
While watching Flipped a couple of weeks ago, I had the most interesting afterthought. Written by Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped was voted as a Top 100 Children’s Novel for the 21st Century by School Library Journal, and went on to become a Warner Brothers feature film. The scene that got me thinking shows the father and daughter having a casual conversation while the father is painting. He asks his daughter about a boy at school that she seems to like.
What to Do When Your Boss Won’t Advocate for You
Having a great boss is a potentially life-changing gift. On the other hand, many of us know firsthand that having a bad boss can cause a lot of drama, headaches, and stress. While it’s easy to love the great bosses and flee the bad ones, there’s one kind of boss that’s much less straightforward to navigate: the boss who doesn’t advocate for you. You might not even know that you have one. Most advocacy happens behind the scenes and in conversations to which you yourself are not privy.
There’s a Proven Link Between Effective Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep
In our hyper-connected, 24/7 world, many of us are losing sleep — literally. Our own survey of more than 180 business leaders found that four out of 10 (43%) say they do not get enough sleep at least four nights a week. Such sleep deficiencies can undermine important forms of leadership behavior and eventually hurt financial performance.
How Your Leadership Has to Change as Your Startup Scales
When it comes to new tricks, sometimes new dogs are just as hard to teach as old ones. At least, that was what went through my mind as I sat in on a recent senior team meeting at a fast-growing, two-year-old e-commerce company. I winced when Daniel, the 32-year-old CEO, said, “Come on, guys, I need you all to focus more on execution. If we’re going to scale successfully at the pace we’ve laid out, we’ve got to execute faster and delegate more. I want you pushing hard on your teams.
Learning In The Digital Age
, marked by constant technological breakthroughs that repeatedly disrupt the business world, has been dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum. It’s an era in which only the most nimble companies will survive—and only the workers who constantly re-educate themselves will continue to find jobs.
Learning at the speed of business
What digital means for the next generation of corporate academies. Corporate universities are entering their second century, just as the businesses that rely on them are transforming themselves for the digital age. When pioneers such as General Motors and General Electric began offering standardized in-house training programs, about 100 years ago, they focused on imparting lower-level, day-to-day skills.
Essential components of a learning and development strategy
Over the past decade, the global workforce has been continually evolving because of a number of factors. An increasingly competitive business landscape, rising complexity, and the digital revolution are reshaping the mix of employees. Meanwhile, persistent uncertainty, a multigenerational workforce, and a shorter shelf life for knowledge have placed a premium on reskilling and upskilling.
Corporate Learning’s Transformation in the Digital Age
Corporate academies or universities are entering their second century just as the businesses that created them are transforming themselves for the digital age. When pioneers such as General Electric began offering in-house training programs about 100 years ago, they focused on lower-level skills.
Aprender na velocidade dos negócios
O que digital significa para a próxima geração de academicos corporativos. Corporate universities are entering their second century, just as the businesses that rely on them are transforming themselves for the digital age. When pioneers such as General Motors and General Electric began offering standardized in-house training programs, about 100 years ago, they focused on imparting lower-level, day-to-day skills.
Learning at the speed of business
What digital means for the next generation of corporate academies. Corporate universities are entering their second century, just as the businesses that rely on them are transforming themselves for the digital age. When pioneers such as General Motors and General Electric began offering standardized in-house training programs, about 100 years ago, they focused on imparting lower-level, day-to-day skills.
There’s a Proven Link Between Effective Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep
In our hyper-connected, 24/7 world, many of us are losing sleep — literally. Our own survey of more than 180 business leaders found that four out of 10 (43%) say they do not get enough sleep at least four nights a week. Such sleep deficiencies can undermine important forms of leadership behavior and eventually hurt financial performance.
The organizational cost of insufficient sleep
Sleep-awareness programs can produce better leaders. Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. —William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In the passage above, the playwright’s tragic antihero Brutus enviously reflects on the timeless truth that people without worries and anxieties (in this case, his servant Lucius) generally enjoy the most peaceful and uninterrupted rest.
Experiential learning: What’s missing in most change programs
Successful transformations demand new capabilities. To build them, experiential learning leverages the intimate link between knowledge and experience. There is an intimate and necessary relation between the processes of actual experience and education. —John Dewey (Experience and Education, 1938) Leading organizations in every walk of life have already had to cope with more change in this millennium than was seen in the entire second half of the previous century.
Do your training efforts drive performance?
Building organizational capabilities is a top strategic priority, but an inability to measure the impact is a growing concern among executives we surveyed. Executives around the world are striving to measure the impact of training and employee-learning programs on the performance of business. Half of those who responded to a McKinsey survey last year told us that they see organizational capability building as one of their top strategic priorities, but many said their companies could do better.
The organizational cost of insufficient sleep
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. —William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In the passage above, the playwright’s tragic antihero Brutus enviously reflects on the timeless truth that people without worries and anxieties (in this case, his servant Lucius) generally enjoy the most peaceful and uninterrupted rest.
Shaping individual development along the S-curve
Learning and development (L&D) leaders are charged with helping individuals weave together the experiences that support their continued development. And of course those experiences take place throughout the organization, not just in formal learning programs provided by L&D. Stay current on your favorite topics Given the variability of when and where learning takes place, it can be extremely challenging for L&D leaders to meet individual learners when and where they need support.
Seven essential elements of a lifelong-learning mind-set
Organizations around the world are experiencing rapid, sweeping changes in what they do, how they do it, and even why they do it. Increasing globalization and new technologies demand new modes of working and talent with new and diverse skills. To flourish in this environment, individuals must keep learning new skills.
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