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Align Skills to Goals, Not Roles.

Organizing work around people and their skills can maximize productivity, performance, and agility. This is where the skills-based organization comes into play.

By building a system to understand and manage skills, HR can apply a consistent strategy across all talent initiatives, to empower businesses to adapt as priorities, economic conditions and talent markets shift.

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Chapter 1

Why now?

Business priorities are changing quickly and often, and great talent is becoming scarce. Organizations are on a mission to keep up.

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Chapter 2

Why skills?

Being able to view, manage and energize skills across the workforce will enable organizations to activate talent quickly.

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Chapter 3

Break it down

Getting started is always the most difficult part. Learn to lay strong foundations for your skills-based organization here.

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Chapter 4

Where to start?

Start small, do it well, and build momentum.

Chapter 5

Overcoming obstacles

Challenging legacy thinking and robust change management will take you far in your skills journey.

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Chapter 6

Evolution or revolution?

Hear the stories of two organizations that saw success by taking two very different approaches to building their skills-based organization.

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Chapter 7

Start the journey with SHL

SHL helps organizations deploy a highly usable and systematic skills approach, resulting in confident mobility, reskilling, and hiring decisions.