ComSkills e-Learning Services for the Future of Work

40% of your employees will require reskilling

According to the “Future of Work” report by the World Economic Forum, companies estimate that around 40% of workers will require reskilling, with 94% of the companies saying that they expect employees to pick up new skills on the job.

The report highlights that skills gaps will continue to be high as in-demand skills across jobs change.

The top skills that employers see as rising in prominence include critical thinking and analysis, data-led decision-making, problem-solving, and self-management skills such as active learning, active listening, using emotional intelligence and flexibility.

These required skillsets for the future of work have also been mirrored by research from McKinsey.

The use of e-learning and online training is rapidly increasing

Due to the adoption of remote working, the use of e-learning and online training is rapidly increasing. Individuals are learning online through their own initiative and also from their employer providing online learning opportunities. Unfortunately, many online courses are often generic video lectures that lack relevance for many organisations.

The demand for client-specific and customised e-learning and online training is increasing.

For those employees set to remain in their roles, the share of core skills that will change in the next five years is estimated to be 40%.

In today’s uncertain labour market, and with the emergence of the “Great Resignation”, coupled with an ageing workforce, employers should be strengthening employee retention and recruitment, The majority of employers recognise the value of human capital investment and expect to offer reskilling and upskilling to 70% of their employees by 2025.

• The Gartner HR Budget and Staffing Survey published in March 2021 shows 80% of organisations are planning to reduce face-to-face training and pivot their learning offerings to a more virtual framework.
• The CBI “The Revolution of Work” report published in July 2021 shows 93% of UK firms plan to adopt hybrid working models, with only 5% of UK businesses surveyed expecting to work entirely from an office.
• The Microsoft HR Decision Makers report published in December 2021 shows over 50% of UK workers would resign if hybrid working was removed or not available.
• The Tavistock Institute‘s Flexible Working for Older Workers report published in December 2021 highlighted one in four of the UK’s population will soon be over 65.
• The Office of National Statistics (ONS) Is hybrid working here to stay survey published in May 2022 shows UK hybrid working has risen from 13% in early February 2022 to 24% in May 2022.

The key takeaways from these reports and related research are:

• The future of work is hybrid
• The future of training is a blended model that combines e-learning (30%), webinar (50%) and face-to-face (20%)
• The 30% for e-learning is largely made up of 10-minute microlearning video content

How can ComSkills help you?

ComSkills are experts at collaborating with clients to create customised learning and development programs focused on achieving client requirements. ComSkills offer four learning and development services:

• Video e-Learning Services

• Private Training Webinars

• Public Training Webinars

• Face-To-Face Training Courses

The training services are available individually or can be combined into blended learning and development programs.

ComSkills can also convert all or any of our range of training courses into a series of short MP4 videos (microlearning) that can be licenced to use on your own learning management system (LMS) or MS Teams & MS Viva environments.

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Our services also deliver a very high return on investment (ROI).

Video e-Learning Case Study – ComSkills Ukraine

ComSkills Ukraine was launched in April 2020, it is financially supported by the British Embassy in Kyiv and the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. You can register here and use the service free of charge. The service is in English and gives access to:

• 40 x 20-minute e-learning (microlearning) training videos on strategic communication
• 11 x 10-minute English language microlearning training videos
• Lesson support materials – PDF’s & links to relevant information
• Zoom integration for live training via webinars
• Online quizzes & online certified exams
• Analytics and reporting
• Integrated and automated online delegate evaluation forms
• Private forums and wikis for information sharing and collaboration

ComSkills Ukraine aims to rapidly upskill Ukrainian diplomats in best-practice strategic communication and digital diplomacy skills. Hundreds of Ukrainian diplomats are now active users, and the user feedback from the course evaluation forms is excellent.

The ComSkills service has had a 100% uptime since launch, and the video e-learning content has been fast and easy to access on the PCs and mobile devices used by Ukrainian diplomats all across the world.

The use of strategic communication and digital diplomacy by Ukraine during the war with Russia has been exceptional.

Listen to Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Melinda Simmons, British Ambassador to Ukraine talk about ComSkills Ukraine.

Creating video e-learning (microlearning) training is innovative and forward-thinking. The leading Tech analyst Dion Hinchcliffe recently said:

“Video has also become a major player in enabling what is known as ‘microlearning ‘, often via short clips that can be created and shared in learning communities, and then discussed. Consuming these videos on mobile devices on-demand, when needed, is another notable trend.

The early numbers from social learning make interesting reading. Initial studies have shown that there’s as much as a 75:1 return-on-investment (ROI) ratio for the approach compared to traditional web-based education.

As a result of such insights, this year fully 73 per cent of organisations are planning on increasing their investments in social learning.”

The numbers speak for themselves…

If you have any questions, please contact us.