CEO & Founder
Blake Proberts
Blake thinks and writes about the capability gap at the center of every organization’s people stack, why learning without capability visibility is just content consumption, why AI fails without capability architecture, and where the future of work is headed.
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How Capabilities Inform Workforce Analytics
When it comes to capabilities there are two types: business capabilities and individual capabilities.
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Using Capabilities to Reward and Recognize Employees
No one wants to work a job where their efforts aren’t fairly compensated on their payslip. And no one wants to work a job where their successes aren’t given the recognition they deserve. There’s also nothing worse than asking for a pay raise and being turned down despite the fact you’ve worked harder than ever.
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How to Link Performance and Learning with Capabilities
I’m not big supporters of the skills focus myself. Skills are just too transient to make much of a difference to employee development long-term. Instead, we prefer to use capabilities.
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How to Use Capabilities to Drive Recruitment
Chances are, you probably associate capabilities with L&D, professional development, and employee training. And when you hear “recruitment” you think of, well, recruitment. The hiring process. In that case, employee training is the thing comes after recruitment happens.
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How Capabilities Reveal Performance AND Potential
Ever sat through a really bad performance review? Most people have. Too often, people turn up to their annual performance evaluation just to hear where they’ve been falling behind or going wrong throughout the year, with no indication on what they can do to improve in the coming performance period.
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Select How Capabilities Guide the Onboarding Process How Capabilities Guide the Onboarding Process
Learn how capabilities can be used to guide the onboarding process to ensure day one readiness and reduce time to proficiency.
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Wondering How to Boost Employee Engagement? Capabilities
Ever had a problem trying to get learners to actually engage with your LMS? If you consider how a lot of the professional development they went through in the past was likely just a lesson in compliance (i.e., setting training for trainings’ sake), it’s no wonder they lack interest.
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How Capability-Led Career Progression Could Benefit Your Workforce
When we’ve talked about capabilities before, we’ve spoken specifically about capabilities in L&D. But we don’t need to—and shouldn’t—limit ourselves to that. In fact, a lot of HR functions bring more value to your business when they’re underpinned by capabilities, including career progression.
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4 steps to build a business case for a capability framework
There’s a lot of talk about skills going around right now: upskilling, reskilling, skills-based organizations, skills-led learning pathways, and so forth.
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How to Create a Capability Framework That Scales
Workforce planning and development is a hot topic in every organization. However, many still struggle to launch effective change programs.
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Revisit Your Learning Architecture In The Age of AI
This week I recap the idea of a “Corporate Learning Architecture” and give you some of my historic perspectives on why this is so important in the age of AI.
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How to Assess Client Readiness Before Launching a Learning or Training Solution
When learning and development (L&D) solution providers sit down at the table with potential clients, the conversation is usually more complex than: Do you want this product? Do you have budget? OK, let’s go.
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