In How HR Leaders Are Preparing for the AI-Enabled Workforce (MIT Sloan Management Review, Mar 2021) explores four workforce strategies that companies are pursuing as they await AI’s prevalence. The first is Doing Nothing. The second is Building Digital Skills. The third is Predicting job trends. Strategy 4 is Helping Workers Choose Their Own Futures …

“Unilever is taking a different approach to preparing workers for future jobs. Instead of trying to predict which jobs will change, the company is helping workers take more ownership of their own paths. Employees are empowered to make the changes they want to make in their jobs and careers rather than having to wait to react to changes imposed upon them. Unilever is facilitating this process by describing alternative career progressions. The company is helping workers choose target occupations and understanding the skills needed to attain them. Then the company is providing a wide range of options — both internal and external training — to gain those skills.“

QUESTION:
Which strategy is your organisation adopting to prepare for an AI-enabled workforce? Are you helping your people in your organisation to “take more ownership of their own paths”?

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In Section 2 of MWL 2021 we look at how to adopt a process of self-learning and self-development so that they can prepare for their own futures.

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