Posts by Visual Workforce
Why You Should Invest In Skills Planning

As we enter the digital age, how we conduct business is changing. Business leaders are rapidly adopting new technology and automation to drive greater operational efficiencies and win more business. We are also seeing major changes in the skills required to succeed in this digital environment, resulting in a growing skills gap for many industries. 

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How To Prioritize Human Capital in M&A Due Diligence

Mergers and Acquisitions are complex. Evaluating and deciding how two organizations will transform into a single successful venture requires comprehensive due diligence. This involves investigating everything from financial records to business models to intellectual property. 

Yet, there’s one element of prospective companies that often gets deprioritized during this rigorous process. People. 

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Why Your Company Needs A Standard Skills Vocabulary

In the complex nature of business, managers work hard to simplify the execution of everyday business processes. But, what about simplifying communication via a common language?

In today’s economy where the way we work is drastically changing, skills are becoming the new currency of business. As with any currency, it’s important to be able to measure your current balance in order to forecast future needs. And when multiple people are involved, a standard vocabulary makes collaboration on this effort quick, easy, and actionable.

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Why Internal Mobility is More Than an HR Term

In 2021, talent shortages are at a 15-year high. Finding top talent that is proficient in the skills of tomorrow is difficult for many companies.

Some companies recognize this modern recruiting challenge and are shifting their approach to how they hire. Instead of searching for new employees outside the company, savvy managers are looking in their own backyard to fill the talent void.

This approach is called Internal Mobility.

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IT Career Skills Series: IT Project Manager

In the digital age, required skill sets are constantly changing. You may be looking to upskill your current team or hire new talent to fill those skill gaps. Or maybe you’re looking to elevate your own skills and career. Whatever your goals, welcome to the IT Career Skills Series. In this 10 part series, we will breakdown the top skills for each role your need on your IT dream team.

IT project managers are responsible for managing work done by a team of people. Many people think an IT project manager is a jack of all trades and a master of all too. But is that really true or does it just seem that way? Truthfully, successful IT project managers have only mastered a small set of extremely powerful skills.  

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Crossing The Talent Management Chasm With Skills Data

The word chasm is defined as a profound difference between two things. When referring to talent management, the chasm exists between the identified, existing skills of your workforce and the required, future skills of your workforce. 

Today, using traditional methods to cross the chasm is not sufficient. Factors such as the rapid evolution of technology and the lack of available skilled workers have upended the labor laws of supply and demand.

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Track Skills: A Guide to Measuring Hard and Soft Skills in Your Team

As a business manager, you are constantly looking for optimal combinations of the various skills and capabilities of your workforce. You recruit and train based on specific requirements that will help you meet your business objectives. You build teams based on strengths and weaknesses that will produce the best performance.

You don’t just manage people, you manage and track skills. Therefore, you need to keep close tabs on your workforce’s current skills and capabilities in order to make effective, timely business decisions.

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The Surprising Reason Why Your Digital Transformation Could Fail

The phrase digital transformation has become a regular buzzword in the business world. Organizations are gearing up to incorporate new technologies like cloud infrastructure, AI, and the Internet of Things, all promising new operational efficiencies and competitive advantages.

CEOs referring to "digital" in their strategic plans increased from 2.1 percent in 2012 to 13.4 percent in 2018. It's not all talk either. Gartner predicts worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.8 trillion in 2019, an increase of 3.2 percent from expected spending of $3.7 trillion in 2018. Those are some significant, expensive commitments to change.

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IT Career Skills Series: QA Engineer

In the digital age, required skill sets are constantly changing. You may be looking to upskill your current team or hire new talent to fill those skill gaps. Or maybe you’re looking to elevate your own skills and career. Whatever your goals, welcome to the IT Career Skills Series. In this 10 part series, we will breakdown the top skills for each role your need on your IT dream team.

Many believe the role of a Quality Assurance (QA) engineer consists only of writing test plans and banging on keys. No skills required other than reading a user manual and checking boxes. In reality, the job is much more complex, requiring a unique combination of technical skills and human traits.   

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IT Career Skills Series: IT Director

In the digital age, required skill sets are constantly changing. You may be looking to upskill your current team or hire new talent to fill those skill gaps. Or maybe you’re looking to elevate your own skills and career. Whatever your goals, welcome to the IT Career Skills Series. In this 10 part series, we will breakdown the top skills for each role your need on your IT dream team.

Nearly every company relies on technology for some part of their daily operation that means having an IT organization to support it. At the head is the IT director, responsible for the management, strategy and execution of IT infrastructure for an organization.

Many believe the role of a Quality Assurance (QA) engineer consists only of writing test plans and banging on keys. No skills required other than reading a user manual and checking boxes. In reality, the job is much more complex, requiring a unique combination of technical skills and human traits.   

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IT Career Skills Series: Network Engineer

Master Network Engineering Skills: Essential Knowledge for Modern IT Professionals

Explore the latest trends and essential skills for network engineers. From job outlook and salary expectations to key skills and certifications, this guide covers everything you need to excel in the field. Download free resources and boost your career in IT.

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Are You Upskilling?

Let’s get straight to it- 2020 is the year of upskilling. Are you hopping on the upskilling bandwagon?

While upskilling may not seem all that different from regular training, the context in which upskilling applies differs greatly. Employees experience regular training to expand their skill sets and advance their careers. But, when companies see macro shifts in the way they operate, such as a massive digital transformation, that requires vastly new skills they can turn to upskilling to fill those gaps.

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6 Tips for Building Better Project Teams

Your projects have an immediate and long-term effect on the health and success of your organization. You need projects to be completed on-time, on-budget, and the result has to work. Simply put, the life of your organization depends on it. The people you place on your project teams will make or break your project results. Selecting the right people with the right skills is not an exact science, but you can always improve your decisions using data. 

Here are 6 ways to use data to build better project teams.

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