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<p>ELE is a peer-powered community where people leaders don't just reframe challenges — they leave with decisions, next moves, and 30/60/90-day commitments to move real work forward.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For 22 years, leaders from Fortune 1000 companies have brought their hardest problems here — and left sharper than they arrived.</p>

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<p class="ql-align-center"><strong>This is where people leaders get sharper — and their teams get smarter.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center">ELE is a peer-powered network of people leaders who accelerate business results through shared intelligence and real-work collaboration. Learn more below about why ELE has been the trusted choice for leaders building high-performing teams for over 20 years.</p>

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Massive workforce shifts in 2020 have forced countless workers to refresh their current skills — and build new ones. If you’re wondering what skills are critical to you moving into 2021, it depends entirely on who you are, where you work, and what you do.

<b>Which new skills, if any, would you like to learn?</b>
<h6 class="font-weight-bold m-0">We've Found:</h6>
Degreed has organized the following data by your country, industry, and job role to help you identify where skills are most at-risk of becoming obsolete. Our aim is to help workers, team managers, and business leaders focus their limited energy and investments on developing the most urgent skills.
<h6 class="font-weight-bold m-0">Explore the Data:</h6>
Among the 5,000+ workers, team managers, and business leaders we surveyed, demand is strongest for technological skills. However, they’re also looking to develop their social and cognitive skills.

Degreed’s <a href="https://stateofskills.degreed.com/data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of Skills 2021 Report</a> is available as a PDF in Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French.

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The State of Skills 2021

evidence-based research

Future of Work

upskilling

sarah.danzl

power skills

agile

Global Teams

psychological safety

insights-wise-2021

<strong>Session Focus: The State of Skills 2021
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Massive workforce shifts in 2020 have forced countless workers to refresh their current skills — and build new ones. If you’re wondering what skills are critical to you moving into 2021, it depends entirely on who you are, where you work, and what you do.
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Degreed has organized the following data by your country, industry, and job role to help you identify where skills are most at-risk of becoming obsolete. Our aim is to help workers, team managers, and business leaders focus their limited energy and investments on developing the most urgent skills.
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<h3>Explore the Data</h3>
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Among the 5,000+ workers, team managers, and business leaders we surveyed, demand is strongest for technological skills. However, they’re also looking to develop their social and cognitive skills.

Degreed’s <a href="https://stateofskills.degreed.com/data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of Skills 2021 report</a> is available as a PDF in Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French.

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The State Of Skills 2021.

dirk.tussing

jesse.james

matt.donovan

marty.murrillo

matt.muench

Executive Learning Exchange (ELE)

<strong>Session Focus: The State of Skills 2021
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Massive workforce shifts in 2020 have forced countless workers to refresh their current skills — and build new ones. If you’re wondering what skills are critical to you moving into 2021, it depends entirely on who you are, where you work, and what you do.
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Degreed has organized the following data by your country, industry, and job role to help you identify where skills are most at-risk of becoming obsolete. Our aim is to help workers, team managers, and business leaders focus their limited energy and investments on developing the most urgent skills.
<blockquote>
<h3>Explore the Data</h3>
</blockquote>
Among the 5,000+ workers, team managers, and business leaders we surveyed, demand is strongest for technological skills. However, they’re also looking to develop their social and cognitive skills.

Degreed's <a href="https://stateofskills.degreed.com/data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of Skills 2021 report</a> is available as a PDF in Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French.
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<strong>Let's Talk Talent Strategies</strong> is our invite-only complimentary event for senior HR and L&amp;D leaders, people managers, and anyone with a passion for talent and innovation who is ready to embrace new ideas.

Learn new skills and explore talent development capabilities with this opportunity to Connect Contribute Collaborate &amp; Impact with talent development leaders on Zoom.
<ul>
 	<li><em>How Do We in L&amp;D Add Unexpected Value? </em></li>
 	<li><em>Why does it matter?</em></li>
</ul>
ELE hosts this virtual happy hour meetup every other Monday on Zoom.

The State of Skills 2021 | Degreed's Latest Research

single-event

Your Teams

Meet-ups

mike.kester

Complimentary

online event

complimentary event

<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Session Focus: Managing your personal experience in Microsoft Teams
</strong>Case study: Setting up Teams that increase learning impact</span>

Are you prepared for the future? Organizations need us, HR and L&amp;D, to help enable new ways of collaborating that engage, streamline, and keep people connected. We can make this happen with a focus on the critical team and individual practices and leveraging the right tools, which we may already have at our fingertips.
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During this series of six one-hour interactive sessions, we will learn together. Both the challenges and best practices for leading a remote/hybrid team while increasing collaboration using MS Teams correctly:
<ul>
 	<li>Leveraging Teams for Learning</li>
 	<li>Managing Your Personal Experiences with MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Finding and managing files, chats, people, and more</li>
 	<li>Moving from Zoom/Adobe Connect/GoToMeeting to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Transitioning from MS-Outlook to MS-Teams</li>
 	<li>Managing projects with MS-Teams</li>
</ul>
Going back to the office will never be the same. After the pandemic, hybrid teams are now the new normal.
<ul>
 	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Use this as an opportunity to change your organization for the better by learning practical tips and best practices in effectively leading hybrid teams</span></li>
 	<li>Learn new approaches for virtual meetings using Microsoft Teams</li>
</ul>
This highly interactive session will allow you to upskill yourself while experimenting with MS-Teams for delivering online learning.

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<strong>What to register for the next, one-hour session in two weeks?</strong>
Click here to open a new browser window for <a href="https://www.learningexecutive.com/evt/upskilling-teams-lc-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Upskilling HR for Digital Transformation: Teams Basics for Purposeful Collaboration 3</a> so you finish registering for this session first.

Upskilling HR for Digital Transformation: Teams Basics for Purposeful Collaboration 2

Team Leaders

Learning Circles

digital transformation

collaborative learning

team-development

richard.rykhus

virtual teams

Upskilling MS-Teams

Digital

Allstate Insurance

<p class="thought_leader">This session shares real-world experiences from practitioners at Allstate, Accenture, CIGNA, and Centrax, focusing on the business challenges, programs we’ve implemented, and lessons we’ve learned the hard way.</p>
Opening the discussion with our respective new employee orientation context, our roundtable panelist plan to spend the majority of the session discussing with each other and the audience key new employee orientation challenges, including:
<ul>
 	<li>Integrating business/functional onboarding with enterprise on-boarding</li>
 	<li>Being high-touch without being high-cost</li>
 	<li>Leveraging technology for reduced cost and improved business impacts</li>
 	<li>Maintaining a human touch in self-directed onboarding</li>
 	<li>Sustaining a global corporate culture at scale</li>
 	<li>Personalizing the onboarding experience</li>
 	<li>Enhancing executives’ integration and networking</li>
 	<li>Creating a seamless onboarding experience</li>
 	<li>Improving manager engagement and a providing support network in the on-boarding process</li>
 	<li>Handling a mobile workforce</li>
</ul>

What's Hot with Accelerating New Employee Orientation

digital

ed.prentice

Operations

learning experience

new hire orientation

peter.grassl

sue.benbrook

ManpowerGroup

<p class="thought_leader">The world is experiencing a global readjustment in which powerful forces are converging to create a new reality where:</p>

<ul>
 	<li>business models will have to be redesigned,</li>
 	<li>value propositions redefined and</li>
 	<li>social systems reinvented.</li>
</ul>
In this new reality, human potential will become the principal agent of economic growth. Talent will become the key competitive differentiator, and companies that understand how to unleash the power of human passion and potential will get ahead. This new era is called the Human Age, and it will have profound consequences on the world of work as we adjust to the fact that there is no reset to “normal.” The ability to make sense of this change will define the winning companies and individuals.

Melanie highlights global forces that are fundamentally changing the world – and the world of work. She will also discuss how…
<ul>
 	<li>Demographics</li>
 	<li>Technology</li>
 	<li>Individual choice</li>
 	<li>Customer sophistication</li>
</ul>
… have created a new normal that organizations must understand to maintain their competitive advantage.

The human potential will be the principal agent of economic growth, Unleashing, then leveraging that potential will be the key.

<strong> </strong>This session will help you understand the macroeconomic trends driving change – and how to successfully navigate this uncharted territory. It will change the way you think about the world of work!

The Changing World of Work

future of work

people strategy

rebekah.kowalski

global

Global Design Process

<p class="thought_leader">Three significant shifts will affect the workplace of the future: globalization, changing demographics, and social technologies. The best companies are already preparing their strategies to win the quest for top talent. The 2020 workplace will be defined by acute vision—20/20 vision—concerning how companies design innovative systems for sourcing, developing, and keeping tomorrow’s employees today.
Dirk Tussing & Milwaukee Learning Leaders will share best practices and case studies surrounding the changing impacting the 2020 workplace, namely:</p>

<ul>
 	<li><strong>Globalization</strong>: global access to markets and talent will reshape the business. How are companies preparing employees to develop a global mindset and way of operating in a global marketplace?</li>
 	<li><strong>Demographics</strong>: five generations will be working side-by-side. How will companies adjust the way they source, orient, and develop an age-diverse workforce when Millennials are estimated to be 50% of the workforce by 2020?</li>
 	<li><strong>Social Technologies</strong>: social media will connect employees, customers, and partners for increased communication and collaboration. Why and how are companies developing internal corporate social networks to create a culture of innovation? How are they integrating tablets into the delivery mix of learning programs? What is the business impact?</li>
</ul>
We plan to profile in detail how business simulations support innovative leadership models and usage of social networking and immersive gaming as part of these emerging leadership.

Finally, they will share several predictions for how the workplace in 2020 will evolve and what you can do to prepare for this.

This interactive discussion is based upon the latest leadership development practices of learning & talent development case studies as well as research with over 250 companies as well as a global panel of 2,200 working professionals as profiled in, <i>The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today</i> (Harper Business)

How to Prepare Now for the 2020 Workplace

social media tools

Accenture

<p class="thought_leader">We live in a mysterious world. Years ago, when things were somewhat predictable, our world today is continuously shifting and changing. Markets are unstable, the workforce is evolving, and it doesn’t look like things will ever again be the way they were.</p>
Amid this turmoil, Accenture strives to build One Global Network, uniting our world-wide workforce under a shared corporate culture. For years, our learning and development strategy has been an essential component of building that culture. More than ever, we need to support a diverse audience as they develop the specialized skills that will help them succeed in this constantly evolving world.

One Global Network: Building a Corporate Culture in a Diverse Multi-National

Engagement &amp; Culture

Culture Change

don.vanthournout

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: Passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In <span class="a-text-italic">Give and Take</span>, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher, and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom. Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, <span class="a-text-italic">Give and Take</span> opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

team-building

amy.cooper

leadership development

keri.kersten

high potential

Performance Improvement

high performance

grit

anne.tessier-chenebeau

nicole.defalco

This book is based on the experiences and ideas of over 100 matrix practitioners. The frameworks, ideas, and tips provided are shaped around the following matrix mastery techniques:
<ol>
 	<li>START WITH PARTNERSHIPS</li>
 	<li>GET GOALS ALIGNED</li>
 	<li>CLARIFY ROLES</li>
 	<li>GET DECISIONS MADE</li>
 	<li>FLEX YOUR INFLUENCE MUSCLE</li>
 	<li>COMMUNICATE WITHOUT ASSUMPTIONS</li>
 	<li>MAKE MEETINGS MATTER</li>
</ol>

Master the Matrix: 7 Essentials for Getting Things Done in Complex Organizations

engagement &amp; culture

culture

susan.finerty

cross-matrix

employee engagement

jim.orheim

<strong>The bestselling guide to cross-cultural leadership</strong>

Since its original publication, <em>Riding the Waves of Culture</em> has been considered the definitive guide to one of the 21st century’s most pressing management concerns―effectively leading people and organizations in an increasingly global business environment.

Today’s business landscape is barely a shadow of what it was only a few years ago, when managers’ main concerns were being aware of cultural differences and preventing embarrassments. Now, you must take it a step further to leverage cultural differences for maximum competitive advantage.

The highly anticipated third edition of this business classic brings you completely up-to-date in a world transformed by radical changes in politics, society, the economy, and technology. Retaining its detailed descriptions of the underlying cultural frameworks that affect day-to-day business, <em>Riding the Waves of Culture</em>, Third Edition, provides new, evidence-based information and insight on:
<ul>
 	<li><strong style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);">M&amp;A</strong><span style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);">―how dealing with (national and corporate) cultural differences can enhance and improve chances of success in these often risky endeavors</span></li>
 	<li><strong style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);">An Increasingly Diverse Business World</strong><span style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);">―including improved and expanded measurements of competences, dilemmas and their reconciliations, servant leadership, innovation, and remote-team effectiveness</span></li>
 	<li><strong style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);">Cultural Convergence</strong><span style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);">―analysis of changes in the past 25 years bringing the world closer to a single “global village”</span></li>
 	<li>The ability to lead effectively in a global business environment is perhaps the most valuable skill anyone can bring to an organization. The most thoroughly researched and highly respected resource of its kind, <em style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);">Riding the Waves of Culture</em><span style="color: var(--__n4qdchev6mgo,#0f1111);"> doesn’t just help you stay afloat in today’s diverse work environment; it provides the knowledge you need to seize the advantage and compete for the long run.</span></li>
</ul>
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