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2022 Workplace Learning Report
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2022 Workplace Learning Report

The Transformation of L&D

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LinkedIn Learning, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the strategic role of organizational learning and development. What may sound like good news for L&D professionals at first glance, however, also presents new challenges. To address them, organizations must ramp up reskilling, upskilling and soft skills training to promote inclusion and employee well-being. The 2022 LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report offers actionable insights into each of these themes for L&D professionals at all levels.

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Learning and development (L&D) is adopting a more strategic role within organizations.

Organizations undergoing rapid workplace transformations currently find themselves in a “Great Reshuffle.” The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation and widened the skills gap, which has elevated the role and importance of organizational learning. L&D is becoming increasingly tied into a more holistic HR function. Rather than just taking care of skill building per se, L&D is adopting a more strategic role by tying skill building to career development and internal mobility.

The role of L&D has become elevated during the pandemic, and it is now up to L&D departments to help shape the future of their organizations. Almost half of L&D professionals surveyed by LinkedIn in 2021 expressed concerns that employees did not have the skills ...

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