Addressing Technical Skills Gaps
27mBeginner2023-11-01
Authors
Rashim Mogha
Best-Selling Author, Technology Leader
Course details
According to the World Economic Forum, 50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025 as the adoption of technology increases. A 2022 LinkedIn report found that 94% of employees would stay with a company longer if it invested in their career development.
In this course, Rashim Mogha explains how tech leaders can address the skills gap as technology disrupts how work gets done. Rashim shows you how to identify the skills needed for businesses to succeed, and guides you through how to upskill, reskill, and how to best utilize existing skilled employees within your organization. She explains the skills to look for, and how to create an equitable upskilling and reskilling criteria so that you can build high-performing, diverse teams.
Addressing the technical skills gap is not just about making a few courses or training classes. Join Rashim to learn how to create a holistic strategy to build skills in your team to empower them to deliver on key business objectives.
In this course, Rashim Mogha explains how tech leaders can address the skills gap as technology disrupts how work gets done. Rashim shows you how to identify the skills needed for businesses to succeed, and guides you through how to upskill, reskill, and how to best utilize existing skilled employees within your organization. She explains the skills to look for, and how to create an equitable upskilling and reskilling criteria so that you can build high-performing, diverse teams.
Addressing the technical skills gap is not just about making a few courses or training classes. Join Rashim to learn how to create a holistic strategy to build skills in your team to empower them to deliver on key business objectives.
Skills covered
Learning and DevelopmentTech Career SkillsLeadership SkillsHuman ResourcesCybersecurityCloud ComputingData ScienceLeadership and ManagementSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Preparing for growth
1. Understanding Your Business
- 02 - Understanding business priorities and KPIs
- 03 - Evaluating the shift in business priorities
- 04 - Identifying the team you need to execute on the priorities
2. Evaluating the Skill Gap
- 05 - Identifying the skills you need
- 06 - Identifying the skillset of your current team
- 07 - Identifying the skills gap
3. Upskilling and Reskilling Your Team
- 08 - Creating a strategy to address the skills gap
- 09 - Doing a cost-benefit analysis
- 10 - Building projections for team growth
- 11 - Getting stakeholder buy-in
- 12 - Providing training opportunities
- 13 - Providing mentoring and coaching
- 14 - Providing cross-functional training opportunities
4. Leverage Internal Hiring
- 15 - Identifying adjacent departments to tap into
- 16 - Looking for transferable skills
- 17 - Building equitable hiring criteria
- 18 - Creating equitable goals and measurement criteria
Conclusion
- 19 - Next steps