#83 - Mark Hanson - Skills Intelligence With Lightcast & Is The Future Skill-Based?

Mark Hanson, the Vice President of Strategy, Skills & People Analytics at Lightcast and previous people analytics leader at UnitedHealth Group, joins the Directionally Correct podcast to discuss all things skills, including a deep dive on skills intelligence with Lightcast. In this episode, we discuss Mark’s experiences with people analytics consulting, we debate the future of skill-based work, how to use Lightcast to help with skills and talent intelligence, who has good Minnesota accents, how to build a skills-based organization, and more shenanigans in the Nerdery. You’ll want to check out this episode of the #1 people analytics podcast!

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Here are the resources discussed on this episode:

• Why the future of work is hard - Cole's article

• Marc Effron's/TSG report on if skills juice is worth the squeeze 

• The power of prediction 

• Lawyering in the age of artificial intelligence

• Why the future of AI is the future of work

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