1) Managers often don't know what skills people lack or how to take them a few steps up using new skills. Usually these are not the core skills people need to do the job. For instance, an accountant could do a decent job, yet only have basic knowledge of excel. The accountant's manager, depending on the complexity and the psce of the company,may or may not be aware of it. Everyone's happy the way it is. However, if the accountant knew Excel better, some tasks would take only half the time, whilst others could be automated and so. This is extremely common in a lot of companies
2) People don't want to upskill. Yes, I'm aware it's a blanket statement, however both as a manager and simply as a colleague, I found this to be the case. Very few,even if they are aware of the problem( e..g. skill shortage) try to address them. I can't count the number of times I told people to at least try to learn x, because their job would become much easier and they'd get more money. Nope, not interested..
Also, actively offering people time and access to learning resources don't seem to help much either.
This is very accurate in my experience. People complain about a lack of training but when you provide an avenue for it hardly anyone takes you up on it.
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1) Managers often don't know what skills people lack or how to take them a few steps up using new skills. Usually these are not the core skills people need to do the job. For instance, an accountant could do a decent job, yet only have basic knowledge of excel. The accountant's manager, depending on the complexity and the psce of the company,may or may not be aware of it. Everyone's happy the way it is. However, if the accountant knew Excel better, some tasks would take only half the time, whilst others could be automated and so. This is extremely common in a lot of companies
2) People don't want to upskill. Yes, I'm aware it's a blanket statement, however both as a manager and simply as a colleague, I found this to be the case. Very few,even if they are aware of the problem( e..g. skill shortage) try to address them. I can't count the number of times I told people to at least try to learn x, because their job would become much easier and they'd get more money. Nope, not interested.. Also, actively offering people time and access to learning resources don't seem to help much either.