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Agile team learning tool

This tool helps your team embed learning in the way you work and consolidate what you learn, even when everything around you is changing.

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Career planning tool

Our tool helps you clarify your career direction and map out the steps and approaches that will help you reach your milestones and learn to channel your motivation in ways that matter to you.

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Learning plan

This tool helps you outline a direction for developing your skills and put your plans into practice by creating your own learning plan. Download the tool below.

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Skillscape survey

In spring 2024, the Kuulas & Co team conducted a survey on the state of skills development in companies, gathering employees’ experiences, expectations and suggestions for improvement. Download the survey report below.

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Turn learning into lasting skills with learning design

Does your workplace have learning environments and online courses, yet their use remains disconnected from everyday work? Do employees attend training, but rarely apply the content in their work, so that it fails to develop your operations more broadly? Learning should not be an isolated intervention, but part of a continuum and of the way work is done. Even the best courses and training do not automatically turn lessons into skills until participants have the chance to practise and apply their ins…

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Why do we need a new operating model for managing and developing skills?

The traditional model of organisational learning has been based on the idea that skills needs can be anticipated and skills updated in a controlled way. To achieve this, academy models, training programmes and competency matrices have been created to develop employees’ skills according to long-term plans. This approach worked in an era when job roles were more stable and change was slower and more controlled. With working life changing faster than ever, traditional learn…

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Renew yourself through learning!

Research shows that continuous learning supports mental wellbeing and even helps prevent cognitive decline. Learning brings joy, keeps the mind active and strengthens psychological capital. However, changes in work and the pace of change are reflected in growing demands and expectations, both in the content of our working days and in the pace of work. Our hard drives are full, we forget things, and the thought of introducing yet another new system on top of everything else can feel overwhelming. Concrete action is needed so that we can…

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Developing skills with the 70-20-10 model: A tool for planning learning

Skills development is a critical part of organizational success, but how can we ensure that employees and managers have the best opportunities to learn and develop? One modern, widely accepted approach to skills development is the 70-20-10 model, which offers a clear framework for structuring learning effectively and productively. What is the 70-20-10 model? The 70-20-10 model draws on applied research into how people learn and provides a tool for skills develop…

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Does study leave meet every need for time off in working life?

The transformation of work constantly creates new opportunities, challenging us to develop new things. What sets this period apart is the continuity and pace of change, as well as the speed of technological development. Together, these affect how we work, our tools and processes, and even team structures and organization. In the future, people will have an increasing variety of jobs and roles. Income will come from an increasing range of sources, such as paid employment, entrepreneurship, and organizational activ…

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Time pressure challenges learning — how teams can strengthen their capacity for renewal

How team learning can put lessons into practice and strengthen the capacity for renewal

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Leading strategic learning

In most organizations, people are learning all the time. They are curious, do their work well, and develop themselves out of a desire to succeed and grow professionally. The problem is rarely that people do not learn or want to develop and succeed at work. Instead, when skills development lacks goals, there is a risk of losing focus. If an organization wants to harness skills development activities and learning to support the strategic priorities guiding its operations, the organiza…

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Designing impactful learning

The pace of change challenges individuals and organizations alike. At HSY, a renewed approach to skills management connects learning, strategic capabilities, and everyday work.

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Can career design help with career planning as work changes?

We grow, develop, and change. We may change professions and workplaces several times along our career paths. Changes in our lives as part of natural growth and development directly affect what and how we think about our work.

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What is learning design?

I think most people reading this have some idea of the role of instructional planning in learning. Perhaps you paused at the title and thought: that is exactly what I have wanted to know. Perhaps you have heard of learning design but still wondered what the point really was. I will try to explain through personal experience, because it did not come easily to me either — but once I found it, it all makes sense!

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How to create your own learning plan

People with strong learning skills assess new situations and challenges optimistically and dare to embrace change. Feeling in control of your work and prepared for changes in it has a demonstrated effect on effectiveness, cost-efficiency, motivation, and career well-being.