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The Skills Wave Is Here

Nearly 7 in 10 workers globally are willing to retrain and learn new skills on the job. Many continue to leave their roles in pursuit of that development. The skills wave is here. What can you do, as an employer, to catch it?

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Learning Science
Skills
Strategy
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How To Boost Retention Through People Development

Retention and development are inseparable: articulating your development offering is not just about getting critical talent in the door, it’s also about keeping them in the organisation over the longer term. Read our three tips to better retain talent by focusing on learning and development.

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Learning Science
Skills
Strategy
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The One Thing You Can Do To Keep Your Talent Engaged

60% of people are emotionally detached from work. Could better articulating your development offering be the key to boosting recruitment, attraction, and retention, in a time where people are changing jobs, changing careers, reducing their hours, retiring, or just quitting the labour market altogether?

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Diversity & Inclusion
Leadership and Management
Strategy
3 Tips to Cultivate Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Being able to openly discuss views is crucial for constructive ideating, and yet just 3 in 10 workers believe that their opinions count at work. Here are three focus areas for leaders to better facilitate a psychologically safe workplace and help fuel productivity, creativity, and overall performance.

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Experiences
Learning Design
Learning Science
Why Your Learning Needs a Soundtrack:
3 Ways Music Can Help Your Brain Learn Better

Why do our brains have a predisposition to music, and how can we capitalise on this to bolster learning? Our Learning & Experience Design team explore three ways to harness the power of music to boost engagement and help learning content stick

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Skills
Strategy
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Our Review of ‘The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t’ by Nate Silver

What if the same level of detail used to predict stock market fluctuations was also applied to talent recruitment, retention, or development? Here are four learnings from Silver's book that could help the mountains of data incurred in the Early Talent Industry more manageable.

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