Research
Your journey to career pathways and empowered employees
After speaking with 155 organizations across the globe to assess their skills strategies against the Cornerstone Skills Maturity Model ©, Cornerstone’s Thought Leadership & Advisory Services team uncovered three key findings:
- Nearly every organization understood the importance of having a skill-focused organizational strategy for the future.
- Most organizations are still in the early stages of their skill strategy journey.
- Organizations’ top priorities for the future are prioritizing skills documentation and exploring technology’s role in accelerating their strategy, followed closely by job architecture and career pathways.
Read the full assessment to learn more about skills maturity and where to go next on your path to becoming a Skills-Based Organization.
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