1 in 2 Employees are Open to Leaving: Here's What Your Training Department Can Do About It

It's time for the workplace to make a shift, and L&D has to shift with it.

Hello! My name is Andraya; I create content to help you elevate the way you do L&D and initiate a skills-driven strategy. If that is something you are focusing on this year, then keep on reading.

I'll say it again: It's time for the workplace to make a shift, and L&D has to shift with it.

That's a bold statement, but I can back it up. And, scroll down to the bottom to learn how to initiate these solutions at your organization.

• According to the 2023 Gallup Global State of the Workplace Report, 51% of currently employed workers say they are watching for or actively seeking a new job. This tells me that people understand their value and understand that the skills of their role can easily be applied elsewhere, especially for a higher paycheck or greater opportunity for growth and engagement. Solution: The modern workplace and L&D need to design programs that deepen employees' skills and loyalty beyond their roles and departments.

• The rise of the Gig economy. The gig economy is expanding three times faster than the US workforce. According to McKinsey's 2022 American Opportunity Survey, 36% of employed Americans, or about 58 million people, identify as independent workers. The Gig economy has proven that people can truly stitch together their own non-traditional career paths by researching what skills are in demand, enrolling in self-study programs, and marketing their skills. Solution: Talent Development programs must extend beyond a library of knowledge-sharing courses and videos. It's time to shift the majority of your time, energy, and resources to designing learning experiences that focus on delivering a safe, structured space to practice and develop skills. Then, deploy programs that allow employees to sign up for projects across departments (not in addition to their existing roles, but in place of them). This enables your employees to diversify their skills, projects, and experience without ever leaving the organization.

• And AI. Similarweb reports the global AI market size is expected to be worth $407 billion by 2027. That's a compound annual growth rate of 36.2% from 2022. Precedence Research projects the U.S. AI market size to reach around $594 billion by 2032. That's a compound annual growth rate of 19% from 2023. Gone are the days of enrolling in an eLearning module to learn how to navigate a new system or understand the definitions of industry terms and how to apply them in conversation with customers and clients. Solution: Keep knowledge-sharing content extraordinarily simple and prioritize ease of access and just-in-time learning formats such as knowledge base articles, AI search results, and infographics. Again, this allows you to prioritize your resources to develop engaging, immersive, and interactive experiences that focus on skill development.

So, what's the shift that L&D needs to make?

It's time to shorten the development and simplify the design of knowledge-sharing material that covers the who, what, when, where, and why (such as eLearning courses, videos, knowledge base articles, etc.) and prioritize skills-driven learning and development strategies that focus on the HOW.

This is called a Skills-Driven L&D Strategy.

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