Help Increase Employee Retention
Discover 3 ways your L&D program can boost retention—based on CIPD’s latest Festival of Work insights.


Insights from the UK’s CIPD Festival of Work conference
According to the latest FoW insights from CIPD, there are three ways your L&D program can help increase staff retention.
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Onboarding is critical - learning should start from Day 1.
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Gain competitive advantage by promoting development and career progression.
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Wellbeing could be L&D’s new best friend.
The skills gap is the biggest challenge facing today’s organizations
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Employers expect 69 million new jobs to be created over the next five years, but 83 million others to disappear
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Finding, attracting, and retaining talent is now a major challenge. It takes nearly 50% longer to fill open positions today than five years ago.
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Smart organizations are looking at their skills strategy as a way to ensure they have a pipeline of able talent to fill new roles as they emerge.
Download the paper to discover how development and retention are more closely tied than ever before.

The skills gap is the biggest challenge facing today’s organizations. Not only is there a global shortage of talent, but, with advances in AI, the skills required for work are changing fast.
Discover how your L&D program can help increase employee retention.
“Company culture can be stronger than country culture if you roll out your values/behaviors correctly, which will help create a sense of belonging regardless of the region they’re working in.”