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Today, Cornerstone announced its new Cornerstone Galaxy platform. You can read the full press release in the link in the comments. This change is a looooooong time coming and needed for a couple of reasons. Reason 1: Cornerstone has been on a buying spree for the past few years, acquiring their competition as well as smaller solutions that expand their reach and functionality. Until now, however, we secretly considered Cornerstone to be more like a holding company. Individual solutions mostly retained their branding and tech stack. While there has been some effort to integrate these acquisitions, the market messaging hasn't been cohesive. Cornerstone Galaxy aims to unify all these solutions into a single platform, leveraging AI to enhance integration and functionality while allowing clients like those using Saba to maintain their existing tech stacks. Reason 2: The new messaging around workforce agility from Cornerstone represents a broader shift we're seeing across tech providers. Instead of focusing solely on an LMS or LXP, this new language taps into conversations happening within organizations about the need for a holistic approach to employee experience. This isn't just about needing an LMS; it's about needing a workforce that is agile enough to adapt to rapid changes. With these shifts, Cornerstone and others are pushing talent leaders to think more expansively about their roles and the tools they need to foster an agile workforce—a top priority for CHROs and CEOs alike. While we haven't yet had a full briefing to unpack this new direction, we're excited to explore what it entails. However, we also have questions: ❓ How deep do these changes go—is it just marketing, or are there substantial backend architectural changes? ❓ What exactly is the role of AI here? At every conference this spring, AI has been a buzzword, but how is it genuinely enhancing the solution? ❓ Is the market ready to pivot from traditional software solutions to those enabling workforce agility, and how will Cornerstone educate them further? ❓ How will Cornerstone help organizations understand and bridge their workforce readiness gaps, especially regarding skills assessments? ❓ To what extent does Cornerstone Extend open up new partnership opportunities beyond content provision? What are your thoughts? Disclosure: Cornerstone is a RedThread Tech Consortium member. #CornerstoneGalaxy #WorkforceAgility

#Skills. Four years ago, when RedThread Research started exploring what skills could do for an organization, it was very hard to find leaders willing to talk to us. That's changed. As tech and data get better, more organizations are embracing a skills mindset and doing some pretty amazing things. On May 8, I get to moderate a panel with 4 of them at TechWolf's event in NYC. where we'll discuss the key aspects of a skills strategy. Who's coming? ▶ Diane Gherson, former CHRO at IBM and board director ▶ Angela LE MATHON, VP People Analytics at GSK ▶ Dan Weiss, VP People Planning and Insights at MetLife ▶ Nick Statler, Managing Director of Talent Acquisition & Talent Management, United Airlines Can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this event!

I have a friend who says you should never do math in public. Same is likely true for research. But I'm going to share anyway. In a recent RedThread Research survey on learning, we asked about the methods employees relied upon the most for development. The top 10 (out of 47) are shown in the attached graphic. A few highlights and then a couple of questions: 🔴 Manager feedback took the #1 spot again 🔴 There are no courses or classes in the top 10 🔴 7 of the top 10 methods are relationship-driven - largely through managers and supervisors 🔴 The performance management process seems to be a really important development tool (that L&D is probably overlooking) So now the questions. 1. Are these the most relied-on methods because they're the most available? 2. Are L&D functions leveraging people and processes already in place? 3. Do we adequately support managers for their huge role in development? Discuss.

The time has come... for the annual RedThread Research people analytics tech study! The graphic shows vendors that are on our radar for this year's study. Who did we miss? Drop their name in the comments! (Please remember, people analytics tech is tech designed to analyze people data -- NOT analytics tech that has a people data use case. (I'm looking at you, Excel. 🙄)) ****** If you work at a vendor that has not been included in the past but want to be considered for this year's study, fill out the form linked in the first comment. If you work at a vendor that has participated in the past but you haven't heard from us today, let Priyanka Mehrotra know, and she will get back to you. ****** #peopleanalytics #peopleanalyticstech #hrtech #hrtechnology #hrtechconf