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Upskilling and reskilling key in shaping the future of Learning and development


 

Introduction

As stated in the Cambridge dictionary, upskilling is “the process of learning new skills or of teaching workers new skills,” while reskilling is “the process of learning new skills so you can do a different job, or of training people to do a different job.”

Need of upskilling and reskilling

Digitalization has entered all the areas of organizations. As the digitalization was implemented by the employees digitalization is incomplete without transforming the human resources. Organization requires their employees to have the relevant knowledge and capabilities to perform their job role. So it is important to upskill and reskill the current workforce to avoid any adverse effects to avoid the sense of job loss.

According to (Meena, Ganesan, 2020) “upskilling is the process of upgrading the current skill set of the employees in a related role to become even more valuable in their current role.” While “Reskilling is an act of equipping the employees with essential skill to fit into a new role.”


                                        source: medium.com


Challenges in upskilling and reskilling

The day to day operations of an organization has assisted by the integration of digital technology such as artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics. This may result in displacement in some manual job roles and it may lead to certain job roles could evolve into digital roles.

Reskill and upskill in Department of Animal Production and Health

Department of Animal Production and Health is a government base organization and it regularly provide their employees with required training so employees could reskill and upskill their knowledge and capabilities.

 Conclusion

Reskilling and upskilling is an ongoing process, and if employees aren’t stimulated and motivated to regularly seek out opportunities to learn and develop, the organization as a whole won’t do so, either.

But this doesn’t have to be a chore. With the right tools, reskilling and upskilling can be an enjoyable and rewarding practice. To fill the new configured digital roles, the organization need new approaches for reskilling and upskilling current employees. Skill shortage is the vital challenge faced by the human resource management. So the organization need to increase investment in training programs. Organization need to clearly identify the training need of the employees in certain criteria and provide them training accordingly. Thus the organization has to upskill and reskill their employees’ skill in their required domain through effective training.


 

References

Etzoin, A., 2021. Upskilling, Reskilling and Preparing for the Future. [online] Gloat. Available at: <https://www.gloat.com/blog/upskilling/> [Accessed 1 May 2021].

Meena, R. and Ganesan, p., 2020. [online] Available at: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343127451_TALENT_TRANSFORMATION_IMPERATIVE_OF_UPSKILLING_AND_RESKILLING_OF_BANKING_EMPLOYEES_IN_THE_AGE_OF_DIGITALIZATION/link/5f181d5c299bf1720d58ed47/download> [Accessed 1 May 2021].

Comments

  1. Ruwan HerathMay 1, 2021 at 8:22 AM

    Reskilling provides employees with a job pivot by training them on a completely different set of skills in order to take on a new position.
    While reskilling focuses on providing training for new skills, upskilling helps workers advance in their current career.

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  2. Ravindra AdikariMay 2, 2021 at 1:56 AM

    Reskilling provides employees with a job pivot by training them on a completely different set of skills in order to take on a new position. While reskilling focuses on providing training for new skills, upskilling helps workers advance in their current career. Udari has written a well organized article on this topics

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