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Companies struggle to develop a learning culture. About half (52 percent) of executives says their company can retain, update, and share institutional knowledge, and only 47 percent say their company has a culture of continuous learning.

The 2020 workforce will be increasingly flexible and companies are unprepared. Forty-one percent of executives say their company is increasingly using contingent workers and 42 percent say this approach is affecting their workforce strategy.

Even though executives cite education and institutional training as the most important employee attribute

HSN (NASDAQ: HSNI), a multichannel retailer in St. Petersburg, is the only company from the Tampa Bay area to hit the 40 percent level, according to a recent report from the advocacy group 2020 Women on Boards. Nationally, women hold 18.8 percent of board seats, while the percentage of board seats held by women at Tampa Bay’s largest public companies is 14.3 percent.

A strong workforce is vital to our nation's economic prosperity, and it has become more critical than ever that our workforce acquire advanced skills and postsecondary credentials. By 2020, 65 percent of jobs will require a college degree or postsecondary credential.

prior learning assessment (PLA), which enables non-traditional learners to complete training and degree programs sooner by awarding them college credit based on the college-level knowledge, skills and abilities they've gained outside of the classroom.

Many state policy leaders have begun to recognize the importance and potential of PLA and have been developing statewide strategies.

businesses are increasing their dependency on contingent labor – even if the global economy is improving.

growing reliance on consultants, intermittent employees, or contingent labor.

businesses are increasing their dependency on contingent labor – even if the global economy is improving.

5 – THE EMERGING GIG ECONOMY The emerging Gig Economy means that there is no longer such a thing a job for life.-  in fact, for most individuals this means they are going to have a life of jobs. One estimate is that current students will have more than 10 jobs by the time they are 38. Companies are also going to be seeing a growing contingent workforce (made up of freelancers, independent professionals and temporary contract workers). Research from Ernst and Young shows that two in five organisations expect to increase their use of the contingent workforce by 2020. This means that people are going to be recruited WITH the skills to do a job; not recruited AND THEN trained to do the job. So if employees want to stay in a company they will therefore need to keep their skills up to date themselves. But in fact, supporting individuals to do just this will actually be beneficial to the organisation as it will reduce the costs of recruitment, So this means helping individuals organize and manage their own professional self-development inline with organizational objectives to achieve a  new level of performance.