LinkedIn Says 55% Feel Stuck. Their Data Shows Why: Missing Feedback Infrastructure
November 2025 | SkillCycle LinkedIn Says 55% of Workers Feel Stuck. Their Own Data Shows Why: Missing Feedback Infrastructure Annual performance reviews perpetuate career control problems because development happens continuously while feedback happens yearly. Only 36% of organizations build the infrastructure that actually works. LinkedIn just published another alarming headline about worker sentiment. Only 45% […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Managing Your Workforce During a Recession: A Guide for Employers
Managing Your Workforce During a Recession: A Guide for Employers October 15th, 2025 – SkillCycle Economic downturns test every decision you make about people, budgets, and priorities. This guide gives employers a practical playbook on how to manage your workforce in a recession without losing momentum. You will find simple steps to build a recession […]
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 […]
