Getting ahead. It’s what companies want. It’s what employees want.
Yet even the best of businesses often don’t deliver consistently on worker advancement, according to a study sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work project and the Burning Glass Institute.
The study, outlined in the top story below of must-read articles for talent professionals, recommends three steps for companies to get career advancement right. One is investing in training. “Workers are unlikely to move up without developing the skills to step into new roles and take on greater responsibility,” HBR writes. The article adds: “To address the problem, companies may need to reframe L&D (learning and development) as R&D, and consider it a long-term investment in worker productivity human capital value.”
Elsewhere in this week’s list, see how the four-day workweek is gaining steam (woot! woot!); discover the five characteristics of effective trainers; and learn why “the big, fat man with the long white beard” may not be coming to town this year.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Enjoy your reading.
Here are the must-read articles from this week:
1. 6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow (Harvard Business Review)
2. ‘What I Learned Examining 1,000 Employer Brand Posts’ (ERE)
3. How the Four-Day Workweek Gained Momentum — and Could Change the Future of Work (CNBC)
4. 5 Characteristics of Effective Learning Experience Facilitators (ATD)
5. Big Tech Is Laying Off Workers. The Growing ‘Green Collar’ Job Industry Hopes to Recruit Them (Fortune)
6. Everyone’s Abuzz About ChatGPT — See How It Will Change Recruiting Day-to-Day (LinkedIn Talent Blog)
7. Younger Workers Want Training, Flexibility, and Transparency (Strategy+Business)
8. The Future of Well-Being at Work in a Pandemic-Altered World (Quartz)
9. Why You Need to Take a Break from Work in Order to Be Successful (Fast Company)
10. Inflation Has Reached the North Pole as Santa Shortage Looms (NPR)
Here is the must-listen podcast:
Searchlight: Rewarding Recruiters by Changing Their Measured Metrics, with Kerry Wang (The RecruitingDaily Podcast)
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