In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with the founder and creator of skillfoundry.io, Eric Wise. Together, these two discuss Eric's career path and the evolution of technology in business operations, with a special emphasis on learning and development. If you're curious about data queries and analytics, generative AI, and the effect of software on skills training, this is the episode for you. Join Dane and Eric for a fascinating conversation about strengthening your organization's onboarding philosophy, and encouraging a systematic method for empowering your team's development while creating and retaining loyal employees that go above and beyond.

Key Takeaways

• Intro to Eric Wise, Founder of skillfoundry.io
• Eric on bootstrapping his business
• Getting started as an entrepreneur earlier before some life events
• Generative AI and cost reduction, still not good enough to do a human's job
• Experience and Hallucinations
• Access to answers and questions, Stack Overflow
• Where the responsibility falls for learning and development, and how companies and teams curate learning
• The "Hire, Train, Deploy" movement
• Learning and development trajectories from day one
• Onboarding knowledge and relationships
• Addressing a skills gap, hiring freezes, additive and transformative learning
• Understanding data queries and analysis, Python training programs and possibilities
• Pathways to creating transformative work
• Learning together and bonding, loyalty to team and business
• Building learning, culture, and community
• Lifetime value, thinking about the relationship between college institutions and missed opportunities in lifetime training
• Lifelong learning for everyone, not just executives
• Peer group learning, being dynamic to thrive in transformative businesses
• Connective tissue: Gaps between academic courses and job functions, partnerships between higher ed and businesses
• Computer science is one of the most dropped-out degrees, and the teaching hasn't changed
• Bringing more technical talent to a world where businesses are adapting to AI, automation, and focused learning experiences
• Not going to be replaced by AI, going to be replaced by someone who doesn't use AI
• Eric's hope for the future of teamwork, and how to contact him