Talent Development

This Strategy Guide offers expert insights and advice for developing a skills-based organization.

Savvy companies recognize that, with their support, employee-creators could become their best social media assets.

Insecure managers who feel threatened by subordinates who have innovative ideas need incentives to change their behavior.

Managers who stymie their high performers’ internal advancement do so at their own expense, research shows.

Support for job crafting can lead to greater engagement, more effective working relationships, and more adaptable teams.

Learn how grassroots automation helps companies speed up digital transformation efforts.

In this MIT SMR webinar, experts discuss why skill should be front and center in organizations’ talent strategies.

Get your talent marketplace off the ground using these lessons learned about user adoption and change management.

How can a leader’s language stir interest in reskilling programs? An experiment at Vodafone surfaced best practices.

Only by creating an equitable environment and supporting diverse populations in navigating it can we sustain diversity.

This article describes a new workforce operating model that’s helping companies boost productivity.

The fall 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines innovation systems and strategies for business leaders.

A presenter at an MIT SMR symposium answers questions about using skills, not degrees, as the benchmark for hiring.

U.S. colleges hoping to boost enrollments should recruit internationally, a Google-GWI survey says.

Two presenters from MIT SMR’s Work/23 symposium answer leaders’ questions about helping employees chart their own paths.

A presenter from MIT SMR’s Work/23 symposium answers questions about resilience and self-efficacy.

A presenter at an MIT SMR symposium answers questions on how gender, age, and race can affect career advancement.

LinkedIn data shows that a skills-first talent strategy can improve employee hiring, upskilling, and retention.

The full video of an MIT SMR symposium looks at how the pandemic has changed the way we work.

Research reveals the factors managers can change to more equitably position women and people of color for career success.