How a Skills-Based Approach Unlocks Talent Mobility and Agility
AI is fundamentally challenging old paradigms of success. To realize its potential, we first need to enable our people to be their best selves in all facets of work.
Chris Ernst
Read BioChris Ernst is chief learning officer at Workday. He’s responsible for leading Workday’s talent strategy, including performance and talent enablement, leadership effectiveness, organization development, and employee experience, and using Workday’s technology to optimize these internal programs.
Before joining Workday, Chris served as the global head of people and organization potential at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Chris also served as vice president of leadership and organization effectiveness at Juniper Networks and held leadership roles at the Center for Creative Leadership.
Chris holds a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from North Carolina State University, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from James Madison University. He’s also authored three books, including “Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems,” “Driving Innovation,” and “Transforming Organizations.”
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Accountability in Action: Empowering Managers to Drive Performance
Creating a workforce of high performers is about more than regular check-ins and AI-powered tools; it’s about empowering managers to elevate their team members. With the right mix of priorities, and the permission to focus on developing themselves and their teams, managers will create a culture of high clarity, transparency, trust, and coaching.
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Transparency Triumphs: Why Openness Is Key to Unlocking Talent Success
An examination of how transparency in performance reviews, career paths, and compensation fosters trust, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.
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Three Plays for Fostering a Powerful Partnership Between AI and Humans
The growing risk of AI is that employees can prompt algorithms but atrophy the very human skills that enable creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. These three key plays will help organizations form the foundation for a powerful partnership between humans and AI–creating a symbiotic relationship where technology expands our capabilities and humans continue to grow and make progress.
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Building a Talent Philosophy That Works: Key Principles for Success
Exploring the core principles of a successful talent philosophy, highlighting the elements that drive employee engagement, performance, and growth.
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The Human-Centric Imperative: Why Your Talent Strategy Needs a Heart
Purely data-driven talent management is soon being replaced with workforce programs that emphasize the importance of empathy, trust, and meaningful connections in today's workplace.
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Workday Global Study: Leaders Embrace Skills-Based Strategies to Guard Against Talent Shortages
Workday Chief Learning Officer Chris Ernst discusses new research from Workday about why leaders are organizing work around skills, not jobs, in the age of AI, how they’re preparing for a potential talent shortage, and the key strategies they’re adopting.
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3 Ways to Accelerate Your Skills Journey: What We’re Learning in Our Transformation
Chris Ernst, chief learning officer at Workday, shares insights gained through the move toward a skills-based talent strategy at Workday.
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Our Vision for Skills in a Changing World
We’ve designed our skills-based people strategy to target three primary personas—individual contributors, people leaders, and organization leaders—who we feel best represent the makeup of our workforce. Here’s how our vision will play out.