In our 3-part webinar series on the Ibbaka Talent platform, we covered some of the most important themes in skill management: Focusing Employee Development Conversations on Skills: How to Understand Skill Coverage for Key Roles in Your Organization: Agile Skill Management - How to Quickly Assess Capabilities Using Skills Frameworks. Recordings of these webinars are now available.

There are many reasons to infer skills from unstructured content. It is one way to seed skill profiles and to keep them current. It is also used in future skills research and in skill-based strategies, where finding skill differentiation is critical. In this post we look at some of the emerging best practices.

Josh Bersin is a thought leader in human capital management. As he was preparing his keynote for the upcoming HR Tech conference he identified key themes for talent going forward. One of these is skill taxonomy and intelligence platforms. Here are some thoughts on how this vision will be realized and what the business impact will be.

Wondering how to get insight into skill coverage at your organization? Join this short demo of the Ibbaka Talent Platform to see how you can answer critical business questions like “How deep is our data science capability?” “Who are the most likely candidates to fill an opening for a service design role?” “Who should we be developing to fill gaps in our succession plan?” Register here and view our previous demo.

One often wants to compare the skills of people, the skills required for roles, the skills of different teams and so on. One important approach comparison is between two companies. This skill differences can give important hints on each company’s strategy and differentiation. Focusing in on key skills can bring differentiation into focus.

Competency models are often used by people in learning and development. The competency model is used to guide the curriculum and course design to ensure that the learning supports the desired competencies. There are similarities between approaches taken to designing learning, such as ADDIE and design thinking, and the design of competency models.

Wondering how to get insight into skill coverage at your organization? Join this short demo of the Ibbaka Talent Platform to see how you can answer critical business questions like “How deep is our data science capability?” “Who are the most likely candidates to fill an opening for a service design role?” “Who should we be developing to fill gaps in our succession plan?” Register here and view our previous demo.

What is a skill profile? A visual way to show your skills and how you apply them. A skill profile can be for an individual, a team, an organization or a community. One can also have a skill profile for a role or job. Skill profiles represent who we are and what we can do. They are a good opportunity for design innovation.

Skill diversity is important at the individual, team and organizational levels. What do we mean by skill diversity? What value does diversity provide? How can we achieve it? Ibbaka Talent gives insights into skill diversity and a place to act to increase the skill diversity of individual, teams and organizations..

Reading is one of the most important foundational skills, but what does it really mean to be an expert or deep reader? Deep reading relies on a combination of immersion (related to flow), reflection and connection. One can learn to apply each of these enabling skills to improve one’s own reading.

Brandon Hall Group, a leading research firm in the talent and learning space, is currently conducting an important survey on How Do You Build Teams for the Future of Work? We plan to tag teams on our platform with different types of teams and see if there are any differences in skill patterns. What questions about skills and teams would you like to pose and see answered?

Please join us for three upcoming Short Demos of Ibbaka Talent - We'll show you how you can use the platform to support effective, skill-based development conversations, as well as understanding skill coverage for key roles in your organization.

Sharing skills is at the centre of the Ibbaka Talent platform. Why is this? Other people often have a better understanding of our skills than we do. One may want to suggest a skill to a person for many reasons: because they have the skill; because they have the potential to develop the skill; because they need the skill on a team or for a role.

Sustained performance of any task at a high level requires flow. The total entry into what is being done.

Unclear instructions result in ambiguous actions, confusion and frustration. It is all about perception, and recent neuroscience points to how our brains constantly run action-perception loops to make sense of the surroundings. Can we get better at providing instructions, regardless of the context, whether it be a driving lesson or skill-accepting interaction in the virtual space?

The European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp) is gaining significant traction in Europe where it is being used to structure large scale training programs and to guide workforce development. We spoke with Margherita Bacigalupo about the approach she took to the design and development of this model and how her skill in UI and UX design helped her in this work.

Ibbaka has partnered with Learning Agents to create GoFrameworks. GoFrameworks is a place where Canadian businesses, government agencies and educational institutions can find skill and competency frameworks (or models) that can be aligned with badges and microcredentials.

The perception of time plays tricks with us. If there is nothing significant to record in the memory, the time subjectively shrinks. Routine blurs everything into one, difficult to cope with passage. The research shows that even a single small change to the routine will impact the overall perception of time. How about starting a Skill Profile on Ibbaka Talent?

In a world that moves faster and faster, do we have the patience to find the bright side of waiting? When "amazon-next-day-delivery" is a standard, four days seems like an eternity. Can one survive for four days without the Internet? Patience is a critical skill. The patience to wait and give thoughts, designs, people and relationships the time they need.

Curiosity is a natural and universal capacity that we all share especially when we are young. First, it helps to understand the world around us - later, it helps to empathize, define and prototype. The steps are present in the Design Thinking process, but as we go through those phases, we need to be aware of the actual thinking process. It is again, a curiosity that makes us pull the curtain and have a peek at the inner workings of our brain.