Building a Skills Strategy with Performance Management

Skills are the new currency of talent for the future of work. There is a growing urgency for people and organizations to better understand the skills they have today, the skills they need tomorrow, and how to focus on building critical new skills for the future. One of the most effective ways to enable upskilling, new skilling, and reskilling initiatives between managers and employees is through continuous performance management conversations.

Talent mobility infographic

Download the infographic from the Cornerstone People Research Lab and Lighthouse Research & Advisory to see statistics around the critical aspects of talent mobility to propel your organization and people forward.

2023 talent mobility study

Drive your organization forward while empowering employees.

Building a workforce skilled for any future

Our initial research during the height of the pandemic last year uncovered what we at Cornerstone have coined “the skills confidence gap" essentially the gap in confidence levels between employers and employees on an organization’s skills development support. Two years later, we wanted to see whether the pandemic served only to exacerbate this problem, or whether it has improved skills development initiatives across different organizations. We conducted another round of research and found that, unfortunately, the gap seems to be widening.

3 hot trends for rocketing success in the modern business world

Information is power. Information begets knowledge. Knowledge leads to smarter decision-making. And who doesn’t want to make smarter, more informed decisions?

Build power skills for healthcare & life sciences success

With the acceleration of digital technology, rapidly changing regulations, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare and life sciences organizations have had through navigate through a lot of change. Keeping up with the latest rules and regulations, plus technology advances, they must provide training and learning opportunities to continuously develop the knowledge base of their people.

Help your retail employees build power skills today

Rising costs and high inflation have tightened consumer spending as of late, thus creating challenges for retailers as they rely on a strong macroeconomic environment and healthy levels of disposable income to drive sales growth. While a large portion of purchases are made online, studies show that consumers still prefer to buy things in-person, creating a synergy between digital and in-person shopping and the need for an omnichannel strategy and hybrid model. Changing social trends have also adjusted customer expectations, so retail organizations need to be agile and able to train their employees quickly and at scale.

Build power skills for business services success

The business services industry encompasses a wide variety of organizations that provide some sort of non-financial service to other companies. These services include advertising, legal services, consulting, logistics, staffing agencies, and security services just to name a few. Despite the wide variety of services these organizations provide, there’s a common set of power skills that employees in all of them need to be successful and to grow.

Zee Entertainment transforms its learning experience with Edcast

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEE) is a leading content company offering entertainment content to diverse audiences. With a presence in over 190 countries and a reach of more than 1.3 billion people around the globe, ZEE is among the largest global Media & Entertainment Companies across genres, languages, and integrated content platforms.

How Fairway Mortgage transformed its compliance training with Cornerstone Content

How to build the power skills every employee needs today

You may have heard the buzz about power skills. People often describe them as a rebranding of soft skills or human skills. But they're so much more than that. This new world of work we're all operating in requires a combination of specific soft and hard skills to be successful. Every employee, regardless of business function, should possess these power skills to succeed in this digital transformation age.

Transform the way people help people

As the Executive Director of the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, September 5 is an incredibly meaningful day for me and so many others across the globe. If you didn’t know, the fifth is International Day of Charity. Established by the UN, this day brings attention to the immeasurable impact of great charity works from people and organizations alike. It highlights the true power of giving back and encouraging others to invest in improving the lives of others.