Session Focus: Community-source tips for starting from scratch to create a skills database.
💥 Does your organization’s workforce have the skills and capabilities needed now and for the future?
As HR leaders, one of your key responsibilities is to ensure that your organization has the right talent with the necessary skills to achieve business objectives.
Tips for starting from scratch
- Start with Why
- Measure the pieces to understand the whole, then thread them through everything
- Start small, scale incrementally; don't build what you can’t scale
- Technology should follow process & strategy, not the other way around
- It doesn’t take an army, but an intern never hurts
- “Buy-in” beats brawn; bring employees and leaders into the journey
- Not just change management, change acceleration
- It has to be embedded into everything you do and the culture
- Start with the outcomes and goal in mind
- Start with data in mind, but don’t start with data
Connecting Job Profiles, Roles, Capabilities, Competencies, and Skills
ELE produces this Learning Circle:
Skills Needs a Comprehensive Strategy 
