LEARNING BY THE NUMBERS Top Priorities for Learning
Adaptability and continuous learning
Project management
Critical thinking and decision making
Leadership and managing others
0 10 20 30 40 50
The “skills companies have prioritized to address through re-skilling” are increasingly those that are “social, emotional, and advanced cognitive,” points out the McKinsey Global Survey on reskilling. Another indicator: “Interpersonal skills and empathy” went up nearly 20 percentage points, to almost 40 percent, as a priority from 2019 to 2020. “Advanced IT skills,” on the other hand, hovered around 30 percent for both years.
Learning means:
Everyone at all levels enjoys practicing lifelong learning.
Learning requires:
• Resources including technology, people, and authoritative information sources
• A culture of valuing, prioritizing, and integrating learning and training—it’s not an extra
Source: McKinsey Global Survey on reskillling.
• Alignment with organizational strategy as well as individual career pathing
74% 46% 45%
Said leadership development was the most important skill for employees to learn, followed by communication and collaboration, according to a LinkedInLearning study.
Of workers said the pandemic caused them to re-evaluate their skill sets, according to Prudential’s Pulse of the American Worker survey series.
Of millennials say “a job that accelerates their professional or career development is “very important” to them—vs. 31% of GenXers and 18% of baby boomers, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workforce report.
40% 33% 19%
Of workers considered “adaptability and willingness to learn” as one of the most important skills they will need in their careers.
Of workers said they would take smaller pay raises in exchange for benefits that let them learn skills and subjects of their own choosing, according to a PwC Workforce Pulse survey.
Of workers said the pan- demic has made “pursuing education or learning a new skill a greater priority.”
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