Spending years in the classroom to learn a subject is keeping the individual unproductive.

Shortening the educational time commitment, and providing more hands-on work experience can make mastering skills easier and provide the young workforce with tangible, real-world skill-sets like confidence, adaptability, computational thinking and a design mindset.

Developing your partners, suppliers, consultants, and contractors isn't instinctive to any company, who always considers only their full-time staff to be eligible for training.

When planning for training and skill development, embrace the whole ecosystem.

Periods of unemployment and gaps in work are usually looked down upon by companies.

These periods can be opportunities to gain new skills and refresh old ones. Unemployment benefits can include training and professional development, helping people who are out of job, adapt and get employed.