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Optimizing skill development via performance planning techniques
Unlocking the pathway to organizational success involves more than individual performance — it hinges on the dynamic connection between skills development and growth. In a landscape marked by swift technological progress and evolving customer demands, the key to future-proofing organizations is cultivating the right skills.
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Preventing ‘failure by democracy’ in HR transformation: 7 expert tips
Implementing a new HR or L&D system is a significant undertaking that affects every employee in your organization. While gathering stakeholder input is essential, involving too many voices in decision-making can dilute your expertise and derail the project. Here’s how to prevent ‘failure by democracy’ and ensure your talent management transformation is successful.
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The Equity Advantage: Why equity matters
In my last article, I unpacked Cornerstone's first DEIB Principle: DEIB is good for everyone, highlighting the story of Ed Roberts, a pioneer for disability inclusion. His work resulted in onramps on public sidewalks at all intersections, enabling the inclusion of those with mobility challenges in public spaces. Just as these onramps created equity and inclusion for people with wheelchairs, organizations must ensure that their talent processes, and the decision-makers who run those processes, create 'onramps' for marginalized people whose talent, aspiration and opportunity are too often 'curbed' by the systemic barriers inherent in our society and organizations.
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2024 Trends in Performance Management - From Compliance to Agility
We conducted a global Cornerstone Performance customer survey in April 2024. This whitepaper digs into the details of the survey, from its objective, key findings, and insights gleaned. It provides data-driven statements about the ROI of Performance and Succession, and the proven benefits organizations (and employees) receive when a cohesive, proactive performance and succession strategy are in place.
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Measuring what matters: Getting started with reporting and analytics
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. While there are endless variations and misattributions of that line, it’s not a bad box to tick when getting serious about setting strategy for reporting and analytics. After all, it’s generally helpful to know whether what you’re doing is working. But that doesn’t go quite far enough. Go beyond what you manage; measure what matters.
Skills Building
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Cornerstone Content Subscription: Immersive Learning
Organizations are at a critical inflection point marked by transformational shifts in generational cohorts, evolving skills requirements, escalating competitive pressures, rapid innovation, and the influence of AI and automation. Adapting to these changes isn’t a choice — it’s a business necessity. To remain operationally proficient and succeed through change, organizations need to rethink how they engage and train their people.
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How to use AI for skills intelligence
With the advent of AI and the growing prominence of skills intelligence, HR professionals now have powerful tools at their disposal to revolutionize talent management and unlock the full potential of their people. So it’s time to say goodbye to opaque visibility and guesswork. Whether using AI to help hire the best job candidates, relying on it to recommend the best learning content or proposing an optimal career path, AI can help your people thrive and, subsequently, help your organization evolve and prosper. Let’s peel back the layers of how AI can help improve how you identify, build and measure your organization’s skills.
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Pride Month and beyond: Building inclusive workplaces through learning
In recent years, there’s been significant progress in advancing LGBTQ+ rights and fostering a more inclusive society. It’s crucial for organizations to actively support their LGBTQ+ employees and stay updated on current issues.
Talent Strategy
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Optimize your employee experience
In 2022, the Cornerstone Thought Leadership and Advisory Services team (TLAS) met with over 200 customers from 155 unique organizations during a series of skills workshops. During these sessions, we collected insights into how customers are developing and maturing their approach to skills as it relates to their overall talent management strategy. We published a white paper on our findings — Your journey to career pathways and empowered employees.
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The Netflixification of the candidate experience
Recruitment is evolving. Gone are the days of crawling through endless applications, waiting weeks for responses, and enduring impersonal hiring experiences. Today, candidates and recruiters alike seek a streamlined, efficient process. We have entered the 'Netflix-ification' of the recruitment era – where choice and personalization are front and center. This is being driven by changing demands and cutting-edge technology like AI.
Customer Story
FCCC unifies learning for 73 college districts
Cornerstone Learning helps Foundation for California Community Colleges to maintain independently managed entities using the same portal. Hear how they integrated data feeds for 73 separate college districts to unify learning and increase end-user engagement for all 140,000 employees.