5 Ways HR Will Change in 2024: Insights from Lars Schmidt

Anyone who works in HR knows we’ve been on a bumpy ride over the last few years. We’ve endured the COVID-19 pandemic, the Great Resignation, surging demand for workers, social justice flashpoints, war and conflict, followed by economic instability and layoffs. HR budgets and headcounts have been cut, even as employers often expect us to

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LinkedIn Data: Soft Skills Tied to Faster Promotions

Hard skills, as the name suggests, tend to be concrete, tangible, and technical: Think tax preparation, graphic design, or language proficiency. They’re relatively easy to define and straightforward to assess.  Soft skills, on the other hand, can often feel squishy, slippery, and generic — how do you define problem-solving or accurately evaluate someone’s organizational skills? 

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Engage Your Forgotten L&D Superpower: Busting Silos

As L&D professionals, we pride ourselves on our ability to create engaging and impactful learning experiences. We are experts at breaking the big picture into learnable chunks and knowing how to design programs that enable learning. We can write a learning outcome with our eyes closed and we are getting better at measuring effectiveness. One

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