Why Digital Talent Development Stalls

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• •Gartner identifies 'learning friction'—the structural and process-related barriers that make it difficult for employees to apply new skills—as a primary cause of development stalls, rather than just a lack of time [1].
• •The research highlights that organizations often fail to align digital talent development with specific business outcomes, leading to a 'skills-to-value' gap where training does not translate into performance [1].
• •A significant barrier identified is the 'relevance gap,' where training content is perceived as disconnected from the employee's daily workflow or the rapidly evolving AI toolsets they are expected to use [1].
• •Gartner notes that managers often lack the capability to coach employees on digital skill application, creating a leadership bottleneck that prevents the scaling of digital initiatives [1].
• •The study emphasizes that organizations focusing on 'just-in-time' learning and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing outperform those relying solely on traditional, centralized Learning Management Systems (LMS) [1].

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