5 Steps to Offer Learning for All in Your Organization

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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.

For Better Performance Management, Ditch the Annual Reviews

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Companies have been looking at performance management the wrong way—and it’s costing them.

Nearly all employees and managers dread annual performance reviews, yet they are still one of the most common performance management tools used in organizations.

How a Human-First Platform Supports the Employee Lifecycle

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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.

Back to Basics: Why Human Capital Development Comes First

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According to Gartner, 58% of the workforce needs new skills to get their jobs done. Not to move up within the organization and not to prepare for a future role—but to simply handle the responsibilities of their current positions.

An employee experience that starts with the employee

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There was no name for what we did. So we named it. Human Capital Development consolidates all of the disparate technology that HR teams herd daily and puts it all together. No more disconnected data in a learning platform and a performance management tool. No more spreadsheets of loose data that don’t connect.

The Top Learning and Development Trends for 2023

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Give yourself the space to pause and consider what changes are happening in your industry and how your company may need to adapt. Most importantly, ask yourself if you’ll have the talent you’ll require to meet the future needs of your organization.

A CEO’s Reflections, and the Path Forward as SkillCycle

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A CEO’s Reflections, and the Path Forward as SkillCycle CEO Kristy McCann Flynn reflects on the transformation from GoCoach to SkillCycle, our human capital development platform. This week we launched SkillCycle, a Human Capital Development platform! Yes, we did it!  When I created GoCoach 5 years ago, the North Star was always to create an […]

Reduce Workplace Stress: How to Introduce Learning & Development Easily

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It’s not an easy time to be an HR professional. Workplace stress is on the rise, budgets are tightening, and talent is getting harder to find. Addressing these challenges can feel like walking on a tightrope–and according to McKinsey, “the tightrope has never been this taut.” This is why understanding how to introduce learning and development easily is critical.