Legacy skill validation falls short—businesses must adopt a skills-first approach to drive agility, precision, and growth.
Building a Deployable Workforce: The L&D Business Case for the GenAI Era
Grounded in research with 51 HR and capability leaders across 5 industry verticals. Co-authored with SHRM India.
You’re already investing in GenAI skilling. The harder question is whether that spend is producing people who can do the work or people who’ve finished the course.
Most learning is still measured by activity: enrolments, completions, satisfaction scores. None of it tells a board whether the workforce can actually execute. As GenAI resets what “skilled” means, that gap between completion and capability is becoming a budget problem and a credibility one. This study makes the case for measuring what your people can demonstrate, not what they’ve attended.
What’s inside
- The L&D shifts defining the next 12 months and which ones actually warrant budget
- Where GenAI moves the needle on learning impact, and where it only adds tooling cost
- How capability leaders are rebuilding their workforce for the agentic era
- The case for evidence of capability over completion and what it changes about how you spend and how you prove return
Who is it for?
CHROs, Heads of L&D and talent, and capability and GCC leaders responsible for turning workforce spend into workforce readiness.
Rethinking Skills for the Future – Key Highlights from the Study
Boost Retention
40%
Prepare for AI Disruption
25%
Elevate Engagement
39%
