Craig Lutz, Director of Learning and Development at Gannett, explores the future of learning and development, emphasizing the transformative power of digital tools and AI. He highlights the shift from traditional classroom training to personalized, technology-driven learning strategies, underscoring the need for organizations to foster curiosity and adaptability among employees.
In this episode, we look at Learning and Development, Technology in Learning, AI in Education, Upskilling, Personalized Learning, Change Management, and Employee Development. Discover how to create effective learning strategies that align with the evolving demands of the future of work.
Key Takeaways:
- Technology and AI are revolutionizing Learning and Development, creating more dynamic and effective learning experiences.
- The transition from traditional training methods to digital learning requires strategic change management and adaptability.
- Upskilling and reskilling are essential as organizations prepare for the evolving future of work.
- Personalized learning enhances employee engagement and development, addressing individual needs and goals.
- Curiosity and agility are critical traits for navigating the changing landscape of work and skills development.
- Organizations must adopt flexible learning strategies to meet the demands of a rapidly changing workforce.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Learning and Development
03:01 The Evolution of Learning Approaches
05:53 Navigating Change in Learning Environments
08:49 The Role of Technology in Learning
11:54 Embracing AI and Upskilling
15:02 Fostering Curiosity and Agility in Learning
17:48 Understanding Learner Needs
21:09 Creating Personalized Learning Experiences
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[00:00:10] This is William Tinkup and Ryan Leary, and we are broadcasting live from Cornerstone Connect in Orlando, Florida with Craig on.
[00:00:18] Craig?
[00:00:19] Yes.
[00:00:20] Tell us a little bit about yourself.
[00:00:21] Yeah, well thank you for having me on the show and looking forward to having a little conversation here.
[00:00:27] But Craig Lutz, I'm currently the Director of Learning and Development at GANET.
[00:00:32] I've been in the L&D space for 20-plus years at several different organizations.
[00:00:38] So Chief Learning Officer, is that still a thing?
[00:00:42] There is a Chief Learning Officer yes.
[00:00:44] Okay.
[00:00:44] I'm not there yet.
[00:00:45] But you know what I'm talking about, right?
[00:00:47] At one point because it was...
[00:00:48] No, not him. He thought you were talking about him.
[00:00:51] Well, it goes with the, I forgot the guest name.
[00:00:55] No, no, no, yeah, fair enough. No, fair.
[00:00:58] Because at one point there was a real push.
[00:01:02] Josh Burson used to have an event for CLOs.
[00:01:05] And it was just for CLOs and it was a real thing.
[00:01:08] And then it kind of died out a little bit because learning...
[00:01:11] I don't know, it kind of felt like it got placed on the back burner.
[00:01:15] Now, not so much.
[00:01:17] Now it's on the front burner.
[00:01:19] Right, yeah.
[00:01:20] Very much so.
[00:01:21] So how has your job changed since you've been at GANET?
[00:01:26] So I've been there for about a decade now.
[00:01:28] And when we first started there was a focus on trying to bring our learning online, foundational learning,
[00:01:38] building out just a learning system.
[00:01:40] Right.
[00:01:41] And then just getting learning content online versus in the classroom and moving people all over the country.
[00:01:47] All that comes into the logistics of that.
[00:01:50] And so that was really the first initiative.
[00:01:53] And it makes me think back a little bit to when I first got started in L&D,
[00:01:58] I was doing a lot of classroom training and instructor-led training
[00:02:01] and five weeks in the classroom, eight hours a day, all of that.
[00:02:07] And right about at the time when e-learning and virtual classrooms started to take off
[00:02:13] and just kind of jumped right into it and said, well this is going to be something.
[00:02:16] You know, we had the dot-com boom and the internet boom and this is just the next in line.
[00:02:21] Right.
[00:02:21] And how was this going to impact my future?
[00:02:24] Because I was fairly young at the time so I had a lot of runway ahead of me.
[00:02:29] And so as I typically do I just kind of said well the best way to figure this out is to just jump in and try it
[00:02:35] and take some courses, go to some conferences, do the things that you do to build those skills.
[00:02:41] But that really set me up for that success to be able to go to an organization
[00:02:47] that was looking to go in that direction and get them started down the road.
[00:02:52] And it's been a good journey and a lot of growth in this area over the years,
[00:02:55] especially as the technology has changed, how people learn has changed,
[00:03:00] the fact that people need skills more quickly today.
[00:03:06] Everything is just in hyper mode.
[00:03:09] Right.
[00:03:10] Years ago you would have days to figure things out or even weeks, months, whatever.
[00:03:15] Maybe years.
[00:03:16] Yeah maybe years.
[00:03:17] Not anymore.
[00:03:18] That's like seconds.
[00:03:19] Right.
[00:03:20] You know, you gotta make that decision.
[00:03:21] What do you mean you don't have an answer right?
[00:03:24] So go back, this is what we do with all guests on the Practicers Corner,
[00:03:29] go back to 15, 18 years old, what'd you want to be?
[00:03:32] Yeah, I will tell you I never saw myself in the career that I am in now.
[00:03:37] Right.
[00:03:37] When I first started out in high school, trying to figure out where I was going to go to college,
[00:03:42] what I was going to major in, I landed in accounting.
[00:03:45] Ah.
[00:03:46] And it seemed like that would always be a job that was needed.
[00:03:49] 100%.
[00:03:50] And you know I did enroll, I was doing accounting and I realized I just didn't want to be
[00:03:56] in a world where the rules were always changing and just working with numbers all the time.
[00:04:01] So you joined learning.
[00:04:02] So I joined learning to solve that problem, right?
[00:04:06] Really what I did was I went from accounting and finance to technology because of course
[00:04:11] technology I really felt was the future.
[00:04:15] And so I switched schools, switched majors, went and enrolled at the time Penn State
[00:04:21] had a fairly new program, Information Science and Technology.
[00:04:25] And I enrolled in that program and from there interestingly enough my first job out of
[00:04:30] college was at a bank.
[00:04:33] My goodness.
[00:04:35] And you know you come out of college, you just want to have a job, you take what you can get
[00:04:39] and you work your way up through organizations, you get your foot in the door.
[00:04:42] But then I had a chance to get in with a technology company and I was doing a lot of
[00:04:49] work that was related to my degree and then somebody came along and said,
[00:04:54] hey look we found that you're real good at what you do but you're also good at
[00:04:57] helping others and teaching others and we'd like to talk to you about a
[00:05:02] They tricked you.
[00:05:03] The role in learning and development.
[00:05:04] They tricked you.
[00:05:05] And the rest is history.
[00:05:06] They tricked you.
[00:05:09] They gave you a bunch of compliments, maybe some more money and they just
[00:05:12] tricked you into this.
[00:05:13] Got me hooked.
[00:05:14] Now how did you get to Penn State?
[00:05:16] So I was born and raised in Northeast Pennsylvania so I grew up a
[00:05:21] Nittany Lion fan so that probably had a little bit of something to do with it.
[00:05:24] Where at in Pennsylvania?
[00:05:25] A little bit south of Scranton Wilkesbury area, right around the Hazelton area.
[00:05:29] In Montgomeryville, Montgomery County.
[00:05:31] So that's down by Philadelphia?
[00:05:34] Up north of Philly so we got like, it's from you, so Allentown, Quakertown and then me.
[00:05:40] I'm down that way often.
[00:05:41] There's an airport down there.
[00:05:42] I fly in and out of.
[00:05:43] I've never been to that airport.
[00:05:46] Ryan knows most of Pennsylvania and New Jersey based on where he fishes.
[00:05:52] Yes.
[00:05:52] If there's a lake I know it other than that.
[00:05:54] It's farmland.
[00:05:56] Yeah.
[00:05:56] So how did you get, how did you, okay so job after the bank, what was the job after the
[00:06:02] bank, technology company, what was after that?
[00:06:05] Technology company and then after that was another technology and data company.
[00:06:11] Right.
[00:06:12] And at this point were you in learning?
[00:06:14] And I was still in learning.
[00:06:15] Yep.
[00:06:15] Got it.
[00:06:16] That would have been the second position I took in learning and then that landed
[00:06:20] me where I am now with an organization that's news journalism marketing advertising.
[00:06:25] But I got into that space within our sales organization that really, you know we sell
[00:06:31] PPC and SEO and websites and advertising so that was also part when I say a technology
[00:06:38] company, that was a big part of the technology.
[00:06:41] Right.
[00:06:41] The first company I worked with was the original domain name registrar.
[00:06:44] The company has been bought several times and doesn't exist anymore but that's where
[00:06:50] it started, got into websites, got into digital marketing.
[00:06:54] Yep.
[00:06:54] All those types of things, yeah.
[00:06:55] What was the name of the company?
[00:06:57] The, it was an internet, internet?
[00:06:59] No, it was network solutions.
[00:07:01] NetSol.
[00:07:01] Yeah.
[00:07:02] Yeah.
[00:07:03] I knew, yeah, I knew NetSol really well because I bought a bunch of domains.
[00:07:07] There you go.
[00:07:09] Yeah.
[00:07:10] Because there was no work solutions but their domain was in ETSOL.
[00:07:13] Yeah.
[00:07:14] Originally, yeah.
[00:07:15] He was a domain flipper.
[00:07:16] Still is.
[00:07:17] Still is.
[00:07:18] Buy those domains and resell them.
[00:07:21] I've done well.
[00:07:22] See, get real creative and get these names that I know people are going to want.
[00:07:26] Yeah.
[00:07:27] Yep.
[00:07:27] If anybody's looking for Clear Channel Park or Clear Channel Field, just kidding.
[00:07:34] So once you got to, what was the original role?
[00:07:37] So I was, really I started out as a learning and development manager.
[00:07:44] And that was really, you know, just to get back to the fact that coming in and getting
[00:07:49] started really it was kind of almost like a company that had been around for a while
[00:07:53] but in this particular space it was kind of like let's build something new.
[00:07:58] Wow.
[00:07:59] Let's do it different.
[00:08:00] Was it classroom, was it classroom based when you first heard it?
[00:08:03] Yes.
[00:08:04] And it was very democratized.
[00:08:05] It was, I mean a large company and training in different pockets.
[00:08:09] So we were trying to also centralize it at the same time.
[00:08:12] Did you bring everybody into one building to train or you flew?
[00:08:17] So we would bring them to, we often like to bring them to headquarters or another
[00:08:21] one of our larger properties.
[00:08:23] So it wasn't always the same place but we tried to regionalize it but people
[00:08:28] were moving around.
[00:08:29] Oh yeah.
[00:08:29] The amount of effort that took back then.
[00:08:31] Oh my God.
[00:08:32] Yeah.
[00:08:33] They could be Hercules.
[00:08:33] Yeah.
[00:08:34] Just to get people in one place and do the logistics.
[00:08:37] Yeah.
[00:08:38] You know with all of the get flights and the hotels and all that stuff.
[00:08:42] You pay more to the agency to get your people there.
[00:08:45] Yeah.
[00:08:45] Than you actually pay for the training.
[00:08:47] Well, kind of, you obviously know this way better than we do.
[00:08:51] People's attention span in an eight hour course.
[00:08:56] You know, it's, you got them for a couple hours maybe.
[00:09:00] Maybe a couple hours in the morning.
[00:09:01] Maybe a couple hours in the afternoon and the rest of it is they're looking at you
[00:09:05] and going.
[00:09:06] Well, and they're there for five days.
[00:09:08] So they're off the desk for five days.
[00:09:10] Yes.
[00:09:11] And then they need five days to recover from the trouble.
[00:09:13] Or we're like at a conference and we're on our phones trying to check into
[00:09:17] email.
[00:09:17] Oh yeah.
[00:09:18] We're paying our attention to other things because business is still going on
[00:09:20] and so because you're just a wait and disconnected too much.
[00:09:25] You're trying to stay connected.
[00:09:26] Well I think that model, I mean first of all that model, thank God we're
[00:09:29] not really doing that model anymore or as much because I think it created a lot
[00:09:35] of anxiety for people because of jobs.
[00:09:38] You're helping them do their jobs, you know, the next part of their job.
[00:09:42] So it's a good thing.
[00:09:44] However, their job job that they're getting paid for things are moving
[00:09:48] and things are going on and the work's being done.
[00:09:51] Right.
[00:09:52] And the time out of that job is really lost opportunity cost.
[00:09:55] That's right.
[00:09:55] Good call.
[00:09:56] And so we want to make sure that that time that they're being developed is
[00:10:01] time that is effective and is going to help them.
[00:10:06] Oftentimes you fly people in and you get them into a classroom and you're
[00:10:10] there five, six, eight hours and you're just giving them instruction
[00:10:13] and you try to put a little bit of activity around it to keep their
[00:10:17] attention.
[00:10:19] You know it really doesn't align to that 70, 20, 10 where a lot of the
[00:10:25] learning that sticks is the learning that is not the formal learning.
[00:10:30] It's the experiential learning, right?
[00:10:31] Right.
[00:10:32] And so it's like give me enough that I can get a mindset of what it is
[00:10:37] that I need to do and how I need to do it.
[00:10:38] Throw you into it.
[00:10:39] And then put me into that environment so that I can practice that
[00:10:44] with coaching and then as I'm doing that, then I'm getting better
[00:10:49] at it and then my ability to recall that information because not
[00:10:53] only did I just hear it or read it, but I was able to apply it and
[00:10:57] then not was I was not able to just do it once.
[00:10:59] I was doing able to do it repetitively.
[00:11:03] So what's the director of learning?
[00:11:05] Yes, right?
[00:11:06] What are you thinking about now?
[00:11:08] What's next for you in your organization for learning?
[00:11:13] Well, it really is, you know with the changing landscape and
[00:11:17] you know ever since the pandemic came in, we would I like to say
[00:11:22] some you know some parts like my position wasn't a big change.
[00:11:25] I was working remotely for the entire time I've been with the organization.
[00:11:28] So I just kept going to work like I always was and we were structured
[00:11:33] thankfully at the time where we had done some of this work that we were
[00:11:36] not doing things in person.
[00:11:38] So we were able to continue without big change.
[00:11:43] But as far as you know the future goes, it's you know we did
[00:11:47] not mention AI yet.
[00:11:48] I don't know how long we've been talking about it.
[00:11:50] Oh yeah?
[00:11:52] Mark that.
[00:11:53] Right here, I'm having minutes and 44 seconds.
[00:11:55] There we go.
[00:11:56] But that is something that you know is on people's minds.
[00:12:02] I think there's a fear of it.
[00:12:04] Some people have a fear of the technology.
[00:12:07] Some people have a fear of I'm not afraid of the technology
[00:12:10] but I don't know what I don't know and I'm afraid that if I don't
[00:12:16] learn and see how I can apply this to my role or how my role is changing
[00:12:21] that you know maybe down the road they won't need me anymore
[00:12:26] or what that's going to be.
[00:12:28] Fear of being obsolete?
[00:12:29] Right, you know and if there's going to be fear what we really want
[00:12:32] is FOMO which is fear of missing out.
[00:12:36] That drives a sense of curiosity to say hey I'm all in help me.
[00:12:42] And that gets into upskilling and re-skilling and that agility
[00:12:48] that is talked about often today where you can take someone that let's say
[00:12:52] is making widgets and help them how to see a career path
[00:12:59] and a learning path on how to get there.
[00:13:02] But that really comes back to there's a part that as a learning organization
[00:13:06] we have a responsibility to be able to create that environment
[00:13:11] and those pathways on how to do that.
[00:13:13] But then I also like to say you know each individual has a responsibility
[00:13:18] and not to maybe jump too far ahead here but we're kind of talking about skills
[00:13:23] and agility.
[00:13:24] You know when I think of agility I think of someone who is curious,
[00:13:31] someone who is flexible right these are characteristics of individuals
[00:13:36] that we must have to be able to meet at the middle and really move forward.
[00:13:42] You know a willingness to learn, a willingness to accept change
[00:13:45] even though it's uncomfortable and I think that's the other thing
[00:13:48] is just through all of this is helping us understand
[00:13:51] that we need to have a little grace through all of this right.
[00:13:54] We're all learning as we go and I think that's something about skills
[00:13:58] and agility is we just think well I've got to get the skill
[00:14:01] and I've got to be perfect and I've got to move forward
[00:14:04] but we're moving so fast that we're trying to change a tire on a moving vehicle.
[00:14:09] That's Michael Dell reference.
[00:14:10] Yeah and so if we're changing a tire on a moving vehicle
[00:14:14] there's going to be some bumps and some scars and some bruises along the way
[00:14:18] but it's okay and we learn from them and we keep moving forward
[00:14:22] and I think that's the big message is keep moving forward.
[00:14:26] So where do you get your inspiration and innovation thoughts of
[00:14:29] as we get this question from a lot of practitioners
[00:14:32] it's like how do they stay on top of things
[00:14:36] but it's more that's kind of a you know what there's things out there
[00:14:41] that are happening that I should probably be a part of etc.
[00:14:44] But for you you know obviously it's more inspiration and innovation
[00:14:50] ATD, what's like peers, where do you get that from?
[00:14:54] I would say it's not any one place.
[00:14:56] I think one for me personally is the FOMO.
[00:15:00] It's the fear of missing out.
[00:15:01] I like to be in on what's happening, what's changing.
[00:15:05] It's just something within me that is a drive which is a good thing
[00:15:10] and then as far as well when I have that fear of missing out
[00:15:14] and when I want to learn more where do I go right?
[00:15:18] So I'll look you know you mentioned ATD right?
[00:15:22] I'll read articles.
[00:15:24] That's a quick and easy way.
[00:15:26] Find podcasts that are aligned and sometimes it's okay to just say
[00:15:31] well I don't know which podcast to listen to.
[00:15:33] We'll start listening to one or some or an author
[00:15:36] and if it doesn't seem to be going the direction you want it to go
[00:15:39] it's okay not to finish it.
[00:15:41] I say okay put that to the side, switch it out.
[00:15:44] I started a movie last night on Netflix, Hitman.
[00:15:48] Not even halfway through it I'm like mmm I'm done
[00:15:51] and I just X'd out of it.
[00:15:53] I'm like you know what it's okay.
[00:15:55] I don't have to finish this movie.
[00:15:57] It's okay sometimes we have to give ourselves the permission
[00:15:59] to think that way.
[00:16:02] And as we're sitting here talking that seems a little odd
[00:16:04] that we would have to say that but human nature sometimes
[00:16:07] doesn't always...
[00:16:09] The Clayton Plate Club.
[00:16:11] We were taught that unfortunately.
[00:16:14] So Ryan what else?
[00:16:16] Well I was so okay so the differences between when you started
[00:16:22] and learning to now.
[00:16:25] What is the major major difference?
[00:16:27] Obviously classroom burst digital and all of that.
[00:16:30] But in the learner, in their mind
[00:16:34] what is the big difference that you need to accommodate?
[00:16:37] I think well one thing is fastest things are changing.
[00:16:41] We know human nature doesn't always like change
[00:16:45] and now it's happening even faster and faster and faster.
[00:16:49] By the way you didn't like it.
[00:16:50] Let's speed it up a little bit.
[00:16:54] I think that's a barrier to get over.
[00:16:56] And then you mentioned before and I like to explain it this way
[00:17:00] but attention spans can be an issue.
[00:17:03] Sometimes we say well in a classroom
[00:17:06] but let's just stop and think about what we do on a daily
[00:17:09] activity.
[00:17:10] Everyone walks around with this device in their hand
[00:17:12] all day long.
[00:17:13] And if we leave that device behind
[00:17:15] we will delay ourselves 10, 15 minutes
[00:17:19] to go back and get that device because we can't imagine
[00:17:22] not being able to get through the whole day
[00:17:24] because our calendar and our access to so much of what we need to do is there.
[00:17:29] And so we sit around and we have these social apps like Instagram
[00:17:34] and they've got these little videos on there
[00:17:36] and you can sit and go through reels, right?
[00:17:38] I do the same thing with reels by the way
[00:17:40] like okay that doesn't make me know I flip through it.
[00:17:43] But those reels are so short
[00:17:44] and we have trained ourselves to that content we're consuming
[00:17:49] because that's what that is, it's content, right?
[00:17:51] It's made by content curators.
[00:17:53] People making a lot of money just making
[00:17:54] I call them silly videos sometimes but they're making money doing it.
[00:17:58] I followed a guy on TikTok last night
[00:18:00] that's just really funny.
[00:18:02] But you know we get it and it's short
[00:18:04] and we move on and we get it and it's short
[00:18:05] and it's like we realize that's how we're building muscle
[00:18:10] in our mind to react that way
[00:18:12] and then when we have to learn something
[00:18:14] we can't learn it that quick.
[00:18:15] We're just, you know, can't handle it I'll say.
[00:18:21] You know it's funny because it's changing the wiring
[00:18:23] in our brains, right?
[00:18:25] I can scroll through stuff for an hour or two.
[00:18:29] The next day I'm not sure I can remember who said what
[00:18:34] or where it was.
[00:18:34] It's just all kind of floating around there, right?
[00:18:37] And sometimes I'll send something I want to keep
[00:18:39] to my wife or something.
[00:18:41] Just so I know how to get back to it
[00:18:43] because I know I'm going to reference it.
[00:18:45] Yeah.
[00:18:46] Why are you sending me?
[00:18:47] You don't have to watch it.
[00:18:49] I just need to be able to know
[00:18:50] this is basically my way of saving.
[00:18:53] But I do look at the profile and like I'll remember
[00:18:56] and I read it to myself and then I forget it.
[00:18:58] Oh, I never look at the profile.
[00:19:02] I can't remember anybody in the name.
[00:19:03] It's like there was the threads account
[00:19:05] that was going to tell people yesterday
[00:19:07] when we were talking about it
[00:19:10] and it's a really, really dark threads account
[00:19:12] and I was going to tell people about it
[00:19:14] and I'm like, I can't even remember the name of it.
[00:19:16] It just comes up and I read it.
[00:19:18] Are you screenshot those things so you remember the name?
[00:19:21] Yeah.
[00:19:21] Little trickster does all screenshots.
[00:19:24] But to get back to, I think,
[00:19:28] just overcoming human resistance to change sometimes
[00:19:31] and some people are more accepting of it
[00:19:34] and open to it than others.
[00:19:36] I think attention spans because of the world
[00:19:38] that we live in and how we live our lives every day.
[00:19:40] Everything's quick, which fast food rest wasn't years ago,
[00:19:45] Burger King year way right away, all that kind of stuff.
[00:19:48] And then I think also as we're figuring this out as we go,
[00:19:55] it's how do we meet the employee where they are
[00:19:58] to provide them just in time, right sized,
[00:20:03] meaningful, relatable content
[00:20:05] that will give them the skill they need in the moment.
[00:20:08] I go back to this example.
[00:20:10] Okay, I'm not a plumber and I'm thankful for those that are
[00:20:14] because I have needs of plumber sometimes.
[00:20:17] It's just not something I find joy in, right?
[00:20:21] But years ago I had a little issue with the commode
[00:20:25] in our bathroom and I looked at it and I said,
[00:20:27] you know, I'm not going to spend $90
[00:20:29] just to have the plumber come out
[00:20:31] and then another hour and then the, you know,
[00:20:33] and I said, it looks like it's just this part here.
[00:20:35] So I took a picture of the part.
[00:20:37] I went to Lowe's and I found the part and on their website,
[00:20:40] they had this little video that showed you how to do it.
[00:20:45] Okay?
[00:20:46] Now I don't know if I could just take the part
[00:20:48] and go do it again.
[00:20:49] I'd have to go back to the video.
[00:20:51] But the point of what I'm trying to say here is
[00:20:53] I got a skill in a moment that I needed a skill
[00:20:56] and it was something I didn't even need into the future
[00:20:59] but I needed it in the moment and I was able to get it
[00:21:02] and I was able to do it.
[00:21:02] That's genius.
[00:21:03] Last question for me is it's more knowing your audience.
[00:21:09] So you have an audience of employees
[00:21:12] and there's not a cookie cutter that works with everybody
[00:21:15] so there's what, learning styles
[00:21:17] and learning differences, right?
[00:21:19] So how do you assess for kind of creating personalized
[00:21:22] experiences to get to that place
[00:21:24] where they have the skill,
[00:21:26] oh, have access to the skills
[00:21:28] and training when they need it
[00:21:30] but again, kind of in the way that they need it
[00:21:33] if that makes sense.
[00:21:34] Yeah, it does, right?
[00:21:36] Because there's a lot of training
[00:21:38] and a lot of content that you can have out there.
[00:21:41] I think what it really does is it requires
[00:21:44] a commitment to understanding
[00:21:47] and of course there's this other,
[00:21:51] I guess we'll call it a shift,
[00:21:53] but it's just kind of murky, I'll call it right now
[00:21:56] where you've got this historical way
[00:21:59] of approach to work where you're hired for a job
[00:22:02] and you have a job title and that's what you do
[00:22:05] and there's a group of skills
[00:22:07] that you need to do that particular job.
[00:22:10] But as the landscape is shifting,
[00:22:14] what we're finding is especially with AI coming on board
[00:22:17] and AI doing some of them,
[00:22:19] more can maybe do some entry level tasks
[00:22:21] or different things that you don't need
[00:22:24] is organizations have a need
[00:22:26] as they're changing fast to say,
[00:22:29] hey, I need this skill, this skill, this skill, this skill
[00:22:33] and it's very costly to have to go out
[00:22:35] and hire someone with that skill.
[00:22:37] So if we can create a way
[00:22:39] that we can create a library of skills,
[00:22:42] these are the skills that we need, right?
[00:22:45] And we're able to say,
[00:22:47] okay, as an employee,
[00:22:48] as you're working with managers and leaders,
[00:22:50] what do you aspire to, where your interests,
[00:22:53] all of that sort of thing
[00:22:54] and then create development paths to get those skills
[00:22:57] and then we're able to see what skills
[00:22:59] that those employees have so when we need those
[00:23:01] we can align people with those skills
[00:23:03] to particular projects.
[00:23:05] Now that sounds simple,
[00:23:08] but with organizations, even larger organizations,
[00:23:11] that's a major shift
[00:23:12] and a major undertaking to get to that place.
[00:23:17] Craig, this has been amazing.
[00:23:19] Yeah, I've enjoyed it very much.
[00:23:21] Once again, thanks for having me.
[00:23:22] This is pretty neat.
[00:23:23] Thank you so much.