How a Training Investment Exposes Measurement Crisis
October 30, 2025 • Rebecca Taylor Why a $2.5B Training Investment Exposes the Skills Measurement Crisis One week after announcing massive technical training, Amazon cut 14,000 jobs to “move faster with AI.” The contradiction reveals why measuring training effectiveness matters more than training budgets. Amazon just announced a $2.5 billion investment to train 50 million […]
Why Internal Mobility Fails: The Training Gap Crisis
Why Internal Mobility Fails: The Training Gap Nobody Talks About Your internal mobility program looked perfect on paper. Six months later, promotion-ready employees are leaving while managers can’t identify successors. The problem isn’t your program design. It’s that 82% of your managers never learned how to develop talent in the first place. Throwing technology at […]
What This Morning’s AWS Outage Just Taught Us About Crisis Management Skills Development
October 20, 2025 | SkillCycle Team What This Morning’s AWS Outage Just Taught Us About Crisis Management Skills Development When Slack went down, some teams kept collaborating. When Asana crashed, some managers kept prioritizing. The difference wasn’t better technology backup plans. If you’re reading this after scrambling through several hours without your collaboration tools, customer […]
The Real Cost of Job Title Inflation | Skills-Based Reviews
Rebecca Taylor • October 2025 The Real Cost of Job Title Inflation (Hint: It’s Not Salary Creep) Everyone’s worried about title inflation driving up compensation expectations, but they’re missing the actual crisis: inflated titles are masking capability gaps that explode during performance review season. Performance review season exposes an uncomfortable truth: we’re all pretending that […]
How to Prevent a Pipeline Crisis with Leadership Develeopment Software for Succession Planning
October 15, 2025 Leadership Development Software for Succession Planning: Preventing Pipeline Crisis Forty-one percent of companies are using AI to cut headcount while employees independently develop leadership skills at record rates. The gap between organizational automation and workforce adaptation is creating a succession planning disaster. Here’s something nobody talks about in the automation conversation: while […]
Why Your Best ICs Won’t Take That Promotion
October 10, 2025 • Rebecca Taylor Why Your Best ICs Won’t Take That Promotion Here’s what nobody talks about in succession planning: your leadership pipeline isn’t drying up because people lack ambition. It’s drying up because they’re watching their managers burn out doing three jobs at once. A CHRO recently nailed the problem in a […]
Performance Reviews in the Age of Going Viral
October 7, 2025 • Rebecca Taylor Performance Reviews in the Age of Going Viral: Why Your Annual Cycle Is Already Outdated You’re writing October reviews about January performance while managing September crises. Is Your Performance System Living in the Past? Quick assessment: How real-time is your team visibility? Your Performance Tracking Readiness 0% Signal Capture […]
The Skills Shift Nobody’s Talking About
Rebecca Taylor • October 2025 The Skills Shift Nobody’s Talking About While headlines warn about AI replacement, workers are quietly pivoting toward distinctly human capabilities. The real crisis? Organizations haven’t noticed yet. Is Your Organization Ready for the Skills Shift? Take this quick assessment to see where you stand Your Organization’s Readiness Score 0% Development […]
Human Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence: Why Modern Leaders Need to be Bilingual
Human Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence: Why Modern Leaders Need to be Bilingual September 22nd, Year – By Rebecca Taylor From automated scheduling tools to AI-powered performance analytics, artificial intelligence is transforming management as rapidly as it’s changing every other workplace function. Recent studies show AI can analyze team productivity patterns, predict employee turnover, and even […]
Strategic Talent Alignment
Strategic Talent Alignment: Connecting Individual Growth to Organizational Impact September 17, 2025 – By Rebecca Taylor Marcus was their best sales rep. Three years running, he’d crushed every quota. So when the VP role opened up, promoting him seemed obvious. Six months later, the sales team was in freefall. Marcus micromanaged every deal. He couldn’t […]
