Despite persistently high unemployment levels, the skills gap is costing employers millions of dollars annually. It’s estimated that 2.4 million positions will go unfilled, at the cost of $2.5 trillion.

Recruiting is unable to close the gap as candidates lack the skills needed to fill open jobs, and competition for qualified candidates becomes harder. Both “soft skills” and “hard skills” are in short supply.

It’s no wonder that building critical skills and competencies is among the top priorities for human resources leaders.

While organizations are more likely to focus on hard skills training to close the technical skills gap, most agree that “soft skills” are more important for long term-success.

Developing “soft skills” has become even more critical as a result of the pandemic, as leaders struggle with new and unprecedented challenges. Unfortunately, many HR leaders don’t know what skills gaps currently exist – and they struggle to create talent development solutions fast enough to meet the evolving needs.

As a result, many employees aren’t developing the right skills at a pace that meets the needs of the organization. They need a more dynamic and agile approach to close the skills gap – one that is more integrated into the employee workflow.

In this webinar Avery Coleman (LinkedIn profile) Sounding Board Senior People Business Partner, User Testing & Kip Kelly (LinkedIn profile) Director, Sounding Board Inc., will explore how one company is closing the “soft skills”gap with leadership coaching. User Testing, a leading provider of on-demand human insights.

They needed a leadership development solution that was agile, data-driven, and scalable. They introduced leadership coaching as a core component of their talent development strategy. The coaching program was designed to empower senior and emerging leaders with critical skills so that they could lead more effectively in a heavily-matrixed organization experiencing rapid, international growth.

This webinar will address some of key challenges leaders face in scaling leadership coaching.

It will explore how to gain senior level buy-in for leadership development initiatives. It will detail how User Testing created a measurable improvement in leadership capabilities.

What Will The Future Of Work Be In Your Organization?

One thing is for sure – you have more options to consider, and more complexities than ever before.

We have learned that remote work is viable, but perhaps that isn’t your long-term future. If however you aren’t ready to everyone back to the office, you are left to look at hybrid work models.

Whether you return everyone to the office, stay remote or do something else, the question remains – what will it look like and how will you get there?

In this interactive webinar, Kevin Eikenberry (LinkedIn profile) Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group; outlines six different hybrid work models and compares them to more traditional options.

Kevin will help you build a plan that gains the acceptance and commitment of your organization. Learn helpful tips to transition to your desired future and position your leaders and team members for success.

Whatever the future might hold, you will leave this session better prepared to help your organization and team succeed in that future of work.

After this session you will be able to:

• Recognize the long-term implications of decisions about the future of your workplace
• Identify what your possible future of work could look like
• Create a plan to determine the future of work
• Create commitment for your plan
• Determine how to prepare your leaders and team members for success in your chosen future

As society looks to rebound from Covid-19, enterprises are figuring out how to balance what appears to be a lasting shift toward remote work with the value of the physical workplace.

The pandemic has posed an existential question:

• What’s an office for?
  1. A way for bosses to oversee shirkers?
  2. A reason to leave home? A source of friends and social life?
  3. A fancy digital platform for collaboration?

The pandemic presented us with an unprecedented opportunity to rethink the importance of presence, proximity, and priority in designing and planning work life.

In this session, you will:

• Learn the upside of creating an environment where we want to do more with less and its unintended consequences.
• Understand the nature and importance of presence, proximity, and priority in a post-pandemic world.
• Identify structural and behavioral factors to improve the presence, proximity, and priority of future work life.

Join Zhike Lei (LinkedIn profile) PhD Associate Professor of Applied Behavioral Science, Graziado Business School, Pepperdine University for this insightful webinar.

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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(Re)Configure Your “Work Life” In A Post-Pandemic World

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