2022 Global Skills Report

Download the report for the five practical ways to improve your organization.

Thriving in a Global Skills Shortage

The history of Juneteenth – and how to honor it this year

On June 19, 1865, news that the Civil War was over reached Galveston, the capital city of Texas. A brief statement, General Order No. 3, was read aloud. It went like this:

How to use AI and skill intelligence to grow your people and organization

Today, only 17% of organizations use AI-based solutions in their HR function, and only another 30% plan to do so by 2022. And yet, AI has the potential to increase HR scalability, recognize patterns in people’s behavior and offer personalized support where and when needed.

The ROI of the right skills strategy

The global skills gap persists—and new research from the Cornerstone People Research Lab revealed a growing Skills Confidence Gap as well. The latter tells us that employers are largely confident in their ability to support skill development, but the enthusiasm isn’t shared by their employees. Both gaps represent serious threats to an organization’s future readiness.

3 key lessons for business leaders leading through change

I've been a leader at Cornerstone through many challenging times — the financial crisis of 2008, Brexit, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine. I've seen the world and our organization adapt and change to meet these shifts.

Infographic: Nothing pays off better than learning

An extraordinary business takes all kinds of people

When your organization embraces diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB), you not only build a culture where people feel they belong but also outperform your competition.

Regional Report: Addressing the Global Skills Shortage

The new realities of work are creating long-term impacts — good and bad — for your organization and people. The organizations successfully navigating this uncharted wilderness focus on the skills of their people.

How to go from attrition to attraction

Cornerstone recently attended the CUPA-HR Virtual CHRO Summit, which provides leaders in higher education the chance to meet, hear from thought leaders, and discuss the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for higher education HR.

Transitioning to a Virtual Learning Environment at HME

HM Electronics, Inc. (HME) is a group of companies that designs, manufactures, sells and services specialized communications, audio and software solutions for niche markets.

HR technology checklist for supporting critical skills

Exposing your people to a wide variety of roles will help them gain a greater range of skills, be more collaborative across business areas and be more productive. And you’ll experience a massive increase in time-to-productivity as your “new” hires will already have most or all of their corporate onboarding done before even assuming the new role. Using your own people as a talent pool for filling job requisitions has a ton of great benefits.