In this episode you will learn from Paul Kearney about the importance of employability skills and how to develop them in your people. Paul has a deep, rich understanding of how people learn, and has been exploring how to develop these types of skills for close to 30 years. The term 'employability skills' is often seen as a bit of jargon. Paul has a great description: higher order skills. The skills he refers to are problem solving, taking initiative, planning and organising work and cooperating. Paul's background is in education and pre-employment training, but what he is talking about can be applied to help your people become self directed, continuous learners who are prepared for the future of work. During the podcast Paul talks about his framework for developing these higher order skills. Broadly, the framework is about: Increasing learner responsibility Increasing experience and practice for learners increasing reflective thinking in learners Increasing collaboration between learners This can be applied to leadership development, onboarding and trainees. He also introduces a nice model of learning: 'Caught, taught, and bought'. One of the other key takeaways from this conversation is that practice need to be diverse.