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

Stacey Abrams