HR Learning: 5 Jan, 2024

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Tata Technologies’ skilling centres will train Telangana students at ITIs

The firm will provide the equipment, software and machinery required to set up Industry 4.0 technology centres at 50 ITIs across the state. Tata Technologies is gearing to set up 4.0 Skilling Centres in Telanga, which will provide skill-development training to students. These Industry 4.0 technology centres—which will offer job-oriented training—will cost a minimum of Rs 1,500 crore. The need to introduce modern technology and courses in the industrial training institutes (ITIs) across the state was felt, so that the youth become more employable in the rapidly-changing tech landscape. This need will be fulfilled with the help of the Tata Technologies’ centres, which will offer courses in industrial automation, electric vehicles (EV) mechanics, robotics manufacturing, advanced CNC machine technology, basic designing and so on at the ITIs.

 

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Building global workforces: A research study

The evolving business ecosystems mandates companies focus on developing the right skills for their global workforces. In today's corporate landscape, 8 out of 10 companies underscore the critical importance of crafting effective skilling methodologies, recognizing them as the linchpin of success, while 60% acknowledge that nurturing communication and collaboration skills is pivotal in driving engagement, performance, and retention. These are finding from the latest Pearson and People Matters study, the Future of Global Workforce Decoded, takes an in-depth look at the forces shaping the skilling demand of global workforces and enabling higher productivity. From ensuring diversity becomes an asset to leveraging new-age learning pedagogies, the report gives HR leaders vital insights into how they can boost communication and collaboration. The study presents actionable insights for you to tackle productivity and engagement challenges that stem from having a diverse, globally distributed workforce.

 

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Let the learning continue: 2023 Trends from People Matters L&D Conference

We’ve got the best learnings and lessons from our very own People Matters L&D Conference, that might come in handy as you begin to create the L&D roadmap for 2024. It’s at times abstract but very essential From navigating the future of learning leadership to AI-enabled learning platforms, the thought leaders touched upon the evolving landscape of learning and what would it take to build a culture of excellence. In the opening keynote, Greg Orme of Greg Orme Leadership began by introducing the audience to the characteristics of learning addicts, individuals who have a mountain of books they are yet to read, can see what they learn everywhere, constantly find connections between their new learnings and their acquired knowledge and are eager to experiment. The author of the book, The Human Edge has been at the forefront of developing and transforming organisations amid technological change and the one request he has been receiving for the past decade from every organisation is, what’s the new strategy to transform and how can we inculcate new mindsets and skills within our leaders. 

As he begins to answer this critical question, his message is simple: Don’t compete with machines, rather differentiate with human edge. For you to be able to do that, you need to cultivate four superpowers, including creativity (the process of creating ideas that have value in the world), collaboration (teaming up with fellow humans to take those ideas to the world), consciousness (asking the ‘why’) and curiosity.

Curiosity, the seed that propels humans to close the information gap, was believed to have been motivated by psychology, but in the past few years, it has proved to have biological roots. That means each one of us can motivate ourselves to be curious and it can be embedded in a company’s culture as well to drive learning.