10/15/2024

Creating a Learning Culture

Here's how to develop one

Employees want to learn on the job. Sometimes, it's for altruistic reasons, like improving the well-being of the organization. Sometimes, it's for personal ones, like learning a new skill that will improve their job prospects internally or externally. Either way, organizations benefit by supporting professional development. But, lately, workers have been skeptical about leaders' capacity or interest in providing it.

That predicament is especially acute when it comes to generative AI, which organizations are rapidly embracing without being clear with their people about its implications. A business.com survey of small-business employees released last month found that while 42 percent of companies are using AI technology, only about half of the ones who do so are training their staffs on it.

"Artificial intelligence implementation is too fast for many of the employees we surveyed," the report notes. "Only 37 percent of all [small and medium-sized business] employees express confidence in their AI skills, and 54 percent believe they need more training in the technology."

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