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The Importance of Investing in Employee Development During Tough Economic Times

Clarity Consultants

Employing a team of strong workers can help you get through these unknown times, which is why investing in employee development is crucial. Learning new skills and competencies is the bread and butter of a learning and development program. Providing learning and development opportunities does just that.

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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

For example, Google popularized the 20% Rule , under which it has traditionally allowed employees to spend up to 20% of their paid work time on developing personal projects. Organizations can also adopt agile governance practices that allow for iterative decision-making and faster adaptation to the changing business landscape.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Talent Development Building on our last point, optimizing skills is an urgent priority as we move into 2024 — experts must learn to augment existing knowledge with AI and automation, use data to build valuable solutions, and at the same time, ensure that digital doesn’t diminish the human relationships still at the heart of the service-based org.

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