A Sneak-Peek to Learning and Development Trends 2020

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A Sneak-Peek to Learning and Development Trends
2020
- Global Knowledge Technologies
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• Looking back at 2019, it was a year of incredible
  technological breakthrough with AI Machine
  Learning being in the limelight. Gaining momentum
  dramatically, innovation has achieved a
  significant stature among the youth worldwide,
  where they are found to be experimenting with
  cutting-edge technologies and coming up with
  utterly innovative start-up ideas.
• India being the third-largest startup ecosystem
  is now home to over 8,900 tech-startups with
  1,300 startups added in 2019. In this context, it
  is good to see that the growth of technologies
  has been ushering paradigm shift to the nations
  economic state as well and making room for the
  need of learning and development among the
  professionals across varied designations.

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A Sneak-Peek to Learning and Development Trends
2020
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Getting Technology Adaptable

• Becoming acquainted with emerging technologies
  takes time and adequate training for
  professionals working in the IT sector. Business
  leaders across the globe are concentrating on
  getting trained so that they can make the most
  out of the technological advancements and meet
  their business goals. Leading corporates are also
  making initiatives to organize training and
  development programs for their employees, aiming
  to enhance organizational performance. While
  there has been an impressive rise in
  the corporate training front in 2019, it is
  forecasted that 2020 will also be a year of great
  success in terms of professionals enrolling in
  top IT courses and focusing on continuous
  learning.

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Learning and Development Trends 2020

• Focusing on Agility Companies are taking the
  plunge to retain their old employees by
  encouraging them to remain agile and be a
  lifelong learner. The LD teams of companies are
  increasingly stressing upon motivating the
  employees to take up professional
  certifications and become an asset to the
  company.
• Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to
  change agile organizations view change as an
  opportunity, not a threat.
• Jim Highsmith, American software engineer
• Reskilling the Talent Employee skill development
  is being included as a priority in the LD plans
  of top-notch companies now. From reskilling the
  talents by enrolling them into artificial
  intelligence courses to making them learn tableau
  and data science, companies are leaving no stone
  unturned to make sure their employees are
  equipped with new-age skills.
• Boosting organizational cultures Taking this
  into consideration, companies are deciding upon
  taking the benefit of learning and development
  programs to heighten a culture within the
  organizations that are aligned appropriately to
  the immediate as well as future goals.

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Technologies to look forward

• From Artificial intelligence to Cloud Computing,
  technological innovations is already disrupting
  business in every industry, steering innumerable
  opportunities. However, there has been also a lot
  of debate and discussion regarding the
  technologies replacing several jobs across all
  the industries.
• To justify that, it is been estimated that by
  2020, 46 of the workforce will be absorbed in
  entirely new jobs that do not exist today or will
  be deployed in jobs that have drastically
  revamped skill sets.
• Contradictory to this, according to Gartner AI
  will create 2.3 Million Jobs in 2020, while
  eradicating only 1.8 Million jobs, raising the
  spirits and hope of employers.

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Technologies to look forward

• In the case of work and job ecosystem as well,
  the emergence of new technologies which stand as
  a job threat for many professionals, on the other
  hand for professionals who keep updated with the
  skills that are aligned with the technologies,
  attain a competitive edge in the job market.
• Right skills are required to keep thriving in the
  industry, which can save several jobs, ignoring
  them can ironically put a full-stop in the paths
  of career goals. The current situation when mass
  layoffs are happening worldwide, with top
  companies showing thousands of employees the exit
  door, a number of organizations and professionals
  are considering taking IT Certifications.

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Towards a Eureka Moment

• The beginning of a new decade sustains great
  hopes for the IT professionals who indulge more
  into LD activities and develop their
  potentialities to make data-driven decisions and
  perform as per the need of the hour, meeting the
  dynamic needs of the industry. LD teams are
  expected to come together to generate productive
  results based on the skill requirements of each
  employee. It has to be kept in mind, that LD can
  only be beneficial if it is customized as per
  individual employees career goals and
  aspirations. Companies with rigid and
  one-size-fits-all LD strategies can never attain
  success with those who have set flexible and
  quality LD plans.

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