Skilling Up for AI Transformation — from learningguild.com by Lauren Milstid and Megan Torrance
Lately, I’ve been in a lot of conversations—some casual, some strategy-deep—about what it takes to skill up teams for AI. One pattern keeps emerging: The organizations getting the most out of generative AI are the ones doing the most to support their people. They’re not just training on a single tool. They’re building the capacity to work with AI as a class of technology.
So let’s talk about that. Not the hype, but the real work of helping humans thrive in an AI-enabled workplace.
If Leadership Training Isn’t Applied, It Hasn’t Happened — from learningguild.com by Tim Samuels
L&D leadership training sessions often “feel” successful. A program is designed, a workshop is delivered, and employees leave feeling informed and engaged. But if that training isn’t applied in the workplace, did it actually happen? If we focus entirely on the “learning” but not the “development,” we’re wasting huge amounts of time and money. So let’s take a look at the current situation first.
The reality is stark; according to Harvard Business Review:
- Only 12% of employees apply new skills learned in L&D programs
- Just 25% believe their training measurably improved performance
- We forget 75% of what we learn within six days unless we use it