Navigating change: 10 best practices for shifting to a skills-based organization

Change management isn’t a new concept, but it’s more complex and more important than ever. Rapid digitization, massive workforce shifts, and new advancements in AI are challenging organizations to change how things are done. As new jobs emerge that never existed before, it’s skills rather than experience or education that will determine how the best organizations successfully hire, mobilize, and retain talent — essential to thriving in the future. It’s time to shift thinking from change management – a top-down process meant to usher your organization through one big change – to change agility, a continuous, employee-driven, constantly evolving approach to real-time resilience. Here are the 10 key things every organization must do today to keep pace with change and modernize its workforce for the future. In this white paper, we discuss: 40% of global CEOs said they don’t think their organizations will exist within the next 10 years if they keep on the current path, according to a recent PwC study Change is inevitable — mindsets, behaviors, and how we work — and skills intelligence is the best way to navigate this change Experts from Eightfold AI and The Josh Bersin Company outlined the 10 lessons of “change agility” every organization will need to respond to, adapt to, and implement to navigate change successfully