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Building the Skills-Based Organization

A Blueprint for Transformation

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Make Employee Skills the Currency Within Your Organization

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are increasingly recognizing the critical importance of employees’ skills as a means of building the organization. This is a fundamental change from focusing solely on specific job titles, position credentials, org charts, and reporting hierarchies when considering organizational growth. Meanwhile, workers and job seekers desire better opportunities to showcase their unique abilities and greater career mobility. Now, organizations have the opportunity to meet their organizational and employees’ needs by focusing more on how to tap into the existing skills of their workforce and develop the skills they need to remain agile and competitive.

While the transformation process to a skills-based organization is complex and may seem overwhelming, skills expert and visionary Koreen Pagano offers you a blueprint for making the shift and achieving success. She shows you how to get started and build over time, emphasizing that you do not have to overhaul every HR, learning and development, and management process and program at once. Start small and wherever it makes the most sense for your organization.

In this book, explore the different components of a skills-based organization—hiring and recruitment, organizational culture, performance management, and career development—as well as strategies for continuous improvement at the people, process, and system levels. Learn to understand the current potential for skills, what is needed to overcome resistance to the change, and how to secure buy-in from your organization’s decision makers. Examine how to plan for the collection, analysis, and governance of your skills data.

This book is perfect for HR and talent strategists who want to go beyond the theoretical and see real results, regardless of where they may be on their path to building a skills-based organization. Case studies of companies at different stages in the journey prove this isn’t just an aspirational goal, but one that actual companies are achieving.

Book Details

  • ISBN: 9781960231741

  • Pages: 344

  • Publication Date: September 2025

  • Formats: Paperback, PDF

  • Product Code: 112513

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About the Authors
Koreen Pagano

Koreen Pagano, CEO of Isanno, is a globally recognized product executive with deep expertise in learning technologies, skills strategy, AI, analytics, and immersive experiences. Pagano has held product leadership roles at Lynda.com, LinkedIn, D2L, Degreed, and Wiley. She previously founded Tandem Learning, where she pioneered immersive learning through virtual worlds, games, and simulations. She currently serves as an executive advisor to a range of companies including product strategy and team advisory and skills transformation consulting. Pagano is a seasoned international speaker and author of two books, Immersive Learning and Building the Skills-Based Organization. She lives in Carpinteria, California.