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Workforce Skills Gap is getting worse in organizations: Leaders believe in a lack of Strategic/Critical thinking while employees lack Leadership !

By | Nicolas BEHBAHANI | Global People Analytics Leader @ TechnipFMC | Leading Global HR Analytics, Driving Business Growth

📣 It’s not only the way we work that’s evolving, the workforce is also changing job content, the skills needed and the jobs that are being eliminated

đź’ˇ More than a third of leadership believe that skills gaps are growing quickly.

🏆 The majority of leaders say that strategic/critical thinking is the top soft skill needed in their workforce today.

💪 Junior employees are clearly interested in developing leadership capabilities as they’re prioritizing the skills that are most closely tied to making a visible organizational impact.

🎯 A majority of leaders appear to see that the solution lies within their workforce and is upskilling and reskilling.

⏰ But organizations are prioritizing more junior staff when it comes to upskilling, reskilling, and learning and development, but these workers are constrained and they don’t have adequate time to dedicate to learning and one in five employees say their employer doesn’t provide enough learning resources, according to a new interesting research published by Springboard using data 📊 from over 1,000 corporate professionals working at companies with at least 5,000 employees.

âś…Gap between leaders and junior employees about Soft skills

Soft Skills needed Junior Employees VS Leaders

Researchers found that the majority of leaders say that strategic/critical thinking is the top soft skill needed in their workforce today, with the related skill of problem-solving and decision-making coming in second.

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