Articles that explore trends, ideas, and perspectives around skill management, HR, and organizational development.
Focused on context and understanding rather than step-by-step instructions.
Long before anyone used the word “competency,” European trade guilds had already built a competency model of one. A guild recognized three ranks: apprentice, journeyman, and master. An apprentice was bound to a master’s household for a fixed term, often seven years, receiving training and lodging instead of wages. A journeyman had finished that training … Read more
Every year, Deloitte surveys the people who run organizations to find out what they believe matters most, and how well they’re actually doing about it. The 2026 Global Human Capital Trends report, built on responses from more than 3,000 business and HR leaders across 15 countries, supplemented by a further 6,000 workers and managers and … Read more
Upskilling means teaching employees new or more advanced skills that build on their existing role. Here’s the definition, why it matters, and eight practical methods organizations use to apply it.
Learn how to build a skill catalog step by step: what counts as a skill, how to set the right granularity, and how a skill taxonomy and skill ontology keep it useful as it grows.
Most companies can tell you how many people they have. Almost none can tell you, with any confidence, whether those people have the right skills to execute the strategy they just announced. Budgets are approved, transformations launched, and hiring plans signed off based on headcount and job titles, while the real question, “Do we have … Read more
What is internal mobility, why it matters more than ever, and what separates the companies that do it well from the ones that just talk about it.
Most companies have great talent on the bench and do not use fully this potential. Just because skills and opportunities stay hidden. The gap between available skills and visible opportunity has a predictable outcome: external hiring goes up, and internal talent walks out. According to LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report, employees who feel their skills are … Read more
Lessons from a decade of skills management implementations across consulting and corporate environments After ten years at the intersection of skills management, strategic workforce planning, and HR technology, certain patterns emerge. Some implementations achieve broad adoption and genuine business impact. Others produce expensive platforms with low engagement and data nobody trusts. The difference rarely comes … Read more
Losing one employee unexpectedly can cost your organization up to twice their annual salary. That figure surprises most leaders, until they start counting: recruitment, onboarding, lost productivity, team disruption, and the institutional knowledge that simply disappears. Every company has a succession plan. Most of it lives in a spreadsheet, in someone’s head, or nowhere at … Read more
Comparing the best personal development software in 2026 for DACH organizations, from Teammeter to SAP SuccessFactors, Leapsome, and Workday. Find the right platform for your team size, compliance needs, and development goals.