According to research, a division of labor between machines and humans will affect 85 million jobs in 2025. At the same time, 97 million new roles are forecast to be created, driven by technological advances and continuous digital transformation. Even for the talent that can remain in the same functions, the predicted share of core skills will change by 40%.

This emphasizes the desperate need for reskilling and upskilling in every job, department, and company, and with a significant change coming by 2025, the time to start is now.

Let’s start by understanding the difference between reskilling and upskilling and how these two techniques can help your organization equip for change.

Reskilling allows your employees to learn new skills to do a different job.

Example Scenario of Reskilling:

“Andria works in company X. She is the best sales manager and is savvy in the sales field. However, the company always changes its terms and regulations to enhance its global competitiveness in the global market. Therefore, to stay competitive, Andria needs to take a different course in tech and IT to stay competitive with other sales talents. Therefore, Andria takes a short course about IT and general technology to earn her own IT certification.”

Upskilling is teaching employees new, advanced skills to close talent gaps. It helps advance employees on their current career path.

Example Scenario of Upskilling:

“Boa is an amazing social media manager and is good with content writing. Fortunately, the company she works at requires a content strategist. As Boa hears the news, she starts to upskill her content creation knowledge to boost her value within the company. She then takes a content strategy course to enhance her skill.”

How to approach upskilling and reskilling your employees

Give admins more time back: Now is not the time for your admins to manually tag content, enroll users, and pull reports. Their time is valuable and should be used in strategizing to reskill as many people as possible. Support them to automate your systems and learning process.
Share ideas: Collaborative learning environments enable upskilling and reskilling that’s seamless and intuitive to learners by allowing peers to educate each other.
Embrace mobile learning: Remote learning isn’t just for our kids right now. Professional adult learners are glued to their devices. Most say their smartphones never leave their side. Smartphones and tablets play a crucial role in e-learning on the job, especially for those of us in remote work set-ups. Corporate e-learning needs to be accessible and easy to use so your workforce can rapidly re-skill and adjust to the changes happening within your organization.

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