NAM: How Manufacturers Can Leverage Adaptive Skills
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The skills gap is one of the biggest challenges facing man- ufacturers today. But what if there was a way to overcome it and fill jobs more effectively and easily? In fact, such a method exists, and it’s called “adaptive skills” develop- ment. Timely Topic: The Manufacturing Institute’s inaugural Workforce Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio, covered this topic last month, in a session led by two EY partners. Here’s what they had to say: • Adaptive skills that help an individual learn and ex- pand their capabilities to meet an ever-changing job function, business market [or] home environment,” EY Americas Business Consulting Leader Lisa Caldwell told the audience. • Developing and leveraging these skills, which include communication and problem solving, helps companies retain a broader workforce, according to a recent joint EY–MI study that built on earlier research from EY and Oxford Said Business School, Caldwell said. • This is particularly important today, as the U.S. work- force could have a shortage of 2.1 million manufactur- ing jobs by 2030 if the skills gap is not addressed. Manufacturing-Specific Skills : In their study, the EY and MI identified three specific adaptive skills “that were highly relevant to the manufacturing industry,” said EY People Advisory Services Partner Stephen Fuller: • Root-cause analysis: The ability “to understand what the root of a problem is, what the data needed to make a decision is,” as Fuller put it. • Systems thinking: It’s “all about asking questions. ‘Who does this? Where does this go? How does this work? When does XYZ occur?’” Creative Reasoning : The key here is the ability to con- sider problems from unusual perspectives, said Fuller. Lessons Learned: Caldwell shared some of the major study takeaways that manufacturers can use. • Create an adaptive culture: “Build a culture that em- powers, a culture that wants collaboration, a culture that encourages and recognizes people who speak up, who bring forward ideas.” • Parlay adaptive skills into new career paths: “If we build career paths and we define the skills and the capabil- ities that are needed for those career paths, focusing on adaptive skills as much as the technical skills, I think we have something that could really attract people to want to not only come but stay in manufacturing.” • Invest in individualized learning: This can include rotat- ing jobs, mentoring, shadowing programs and leverag- ing technology to create experiential learning for em- ployees, said Caldwell. The Last Word: Ultimately, closing the skills gap “all starts with skills and infusing adaptive skills into your role profiles,” Fuller said.
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December 19, 2022
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