An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
The transition into the digital era has blurred the lines that were once clearly marked between “business training” and “technical training.” There were typically organizations that focused on one or the other, but as enterprise organizations begin to face the daunting task of retraining their teams with the skills, outlooks, and perspectives necessary to thrive in the digital era, this separation has not only become fuzzy, it now represents a gap that organizations must close.
Skillsoft has recently announced new approaches to training individuals and shifting corporate cultures to close just this gap. The company has introduced what it calls Percipio, an intelligent learning platform and embedded agent that enables workers to access contextual and on-demand training within their day-to-day workflow. It believes that this sort of integrated learning is essential as the pace change continues to increase and workers must continuously learn new skills and adapt to changing environments.
Toward that same end, the company is also releasing what it calls Aspire Journeys that it has designed to help workers evolve their skills through a series of tracks to help them, for instance, to progress from being a data analyst to a being a data scientist (with data wrangling and data ops as intermediate steps). The company includes what it calls a capstone project that integrates learning from across tracks to help cement the transition. It also plans to roll-out these journeys across the spectrum from modern, technology-oriented roles through the management layers necessary to help organizations build the maturity they need, for instance, to transform from command-and-control to agile, self-organizing management structures.
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