How adults can learn better and master the skills for success

The idea of becoming a life-long learner can seem intimidating to workers who have done the same job their whole life, but there are ways people can boost their memories and skill sets even in their later years.

By Kristin Falzon

March 17, 2017

The reality of today’s economy is that it is transforming from an industrial economy to a digital economy, and it is happening at an accelerated rate.

Right now, there are 5.6 million jobs that are available, but employers can’t find people with the right skills to fill them. This employability gap shows there is a need for educational institutions and employers to band together to train people in the skills for these jobs of the future.

In order for this to work long-term, it’s going to take an understanding not only from those providing the necessary skills, but from those learning them as well. An understanding that once you learn the skills needed for your job now, that education most likely won’t stop there. At the pace technology is changing, employees are going to have to keep learning and evolving their skills in order to remain a life-long employee.

The idea of becoming a life-long learner can seem intimidating to workers who have done the same job their whole life and it’s all they know. But as author and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Ulrich Boser explains in his interview with The Atlantic and in his new book, Learn Better, there are ways people can boost their memories and skill sets even in their later years.

Click here to read his interview.

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Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.