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How Skill Adjacent Training Is Changing Career Growth
Most corporate training teaches skills you already have. Lucas and Luna explore 'skill-adjacent training' — a strategy where employees learn capabilities one step removed from their current role, like a product manager learning SQL or a designer learning basic Python. They discuss research from the World Economic Forum showing that skill-adjacent learning boosts retention by 40% and leads to more internal mobility. The episode focuses on how companies like AT&T and IBM have used this approach to reskill tens of thousands of workers without hiring externally. Luna pushes back on whether this…
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