The New Rules of Talent Development
The New Rules of Talent Development: Building Skills, Connection, and Growth That Last April 19th, 2025 – By Rebecca Taylor, CCO and Co-founder of SkillCycle
Tori Rochlen
April 29, 2025
Tori has spent her career dedicated to growing herself, her teams, and supporting the growth of others around her. During her 10-years in HR, Tori became a trusted HR partner with strengths in process improvements, program management and building trusting relationships cross-functionally. As a true HR generalist, she has experience in HR compliance, total rewards, global mobility, talent management and development, and employee engagement.
Using her HR experience, Tori became employee #3 at GoCoach/SkillCycle, responsible for building and scaling employee coaching programs and leading significant operational changes to influence scalable product growth. Today, Tori drives the learning success and enablement strategies, improving user ability to access the right content and resources that will help them utilize the SkillCycle platform in ways that contribute to their own successes. She is also a coach on the platform and manages SkillCycle’s talented coach community, always advocating for continuous learning and development for all SkillCycle users.
The New Rules of Talent Development: Building Skills, Connection, and Growth That Last April 19th, 2025 – By Rebecca Taylor, CCO and Co-founder of SkillCycle
Managing people is never easy. It’s something we must work on every day with ourselves and others. We all want to protect our teams and achieve fruitful outcomes for each other to make personal and company goals happen. There are a lot of ways to stay true to our people in the process of leading, coaching and managing them and there is one way that you can fulfill your promise to them every day.
Since New technologies are developed and released almost daily, leaders of young businesses may think they need to implement the latest tech immediately to keep up or, if they’re in tech development themselves, rush a new product to market. But that’s not always the smartest move—with technology, as with anything else, “new” doesn’t always equal “better,” and “first” doesn’t always equal “winner.”
According to recent data from McKinsey, despite the significant investment in AI technologies across industries, many organizations are still developing their AI implementation strategies, with nearly half of C-suite leaders expressing concern about the pace of AI adoption due to skill gaps in their workforce.
15 Top Tips To Become A Better Team Player At Work March 28th, 2025 – By Rebecca Taylor, CCO and Co-founder of SkillCycle The Renewed
Organizations today operate in conditions defined by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA). Originally introduced by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in the 1980s and later expanded by the U.S. Army War College, the concept of VUCA describes environments where rapid change, unpredictable disruptions, and multi-layered challenges create strategic uncertainty.
It’s no secret people have been leaving their jobs in massive numbers. The Great Resignation, or Great Reshuffle as it’s often called now, has affected companies worldwide as over 47 million people left their positions in 2021.
Employees want to feel valued at work, and companies that meet this need are more likely to retain the talent they require to be successful. The key is understanding the employee lifecycle (how staff experience your organization throughout their career within it), so you can engage individual team members more effectively at each stage.
Developing your people through learning programs is essential, but you’ll need to tie these efforts to broader organizational goals. Tracking learning and development KPIs (key performance indicators) can help you evaluate whether your programming is effective or if it needs realignment.
