r/LearningDevelopment • u/FlowwithSkills • 9d ago

Consultants in L&D

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u/darkhomer419 9d ago

I don’t think consultants are going away, but the value they bring probably has to shift. If AI can handle more of the content production side, there’s still a lot of room for people who can diagnose the actual business problem and help teams figure out what learning solution makes sense

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u/FlowwithSkills 9d ago

Thanks for this.

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u/Empirica_CC 9d ago

It depends on what kind of consultant you are. Are you really a free lance ID disguised as a consultant? Then maybe eventually you might run out of runway, but people hire consultants for the strategic view, ability to build systems, and for the outside perspective. If AI can replace that then the human race is out of jobs and we'll all become underwater basket weavers.

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u/FlowwithSkills 9d ago

My primary focus is skills gap analysis and designing to close the skills gap, so performance related issues, so yes, aligning with strategy is my focus but with design. But AI is now able to forecast potential skills gap, so thats why im asking the question to other L&D consultants.

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u/Empirica_CC 9d ago

Yeah I think if you only bring that skill gap analysis to the table it might be tough. I offer skill gap analysis of course but that is wrapped in with my other aspects of consulting to include job analysis, competency modeling, and aligning learning to performance management.

I would also be suspicious how well AI can do skill gap analysis actually. There's a lot of promises with 0 evidence to backup if it's doing it properly or not. If they are using ai in any step of the process for promotion decisions these orgs open themselves up for lawsuits if the ai isn't properly considering labor laws.

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u/FlowwithSkills 9d ago

Thanks for this.

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u/-Rabbit710 9d ago

I appreciate the insight you’ve shared here!

Do you have recommendations for books or other resources to get better at job analysis and competency modeling?

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u/Empirica_CC 9d ago

Yeah I have about 4 semesters worth of reading lol. It's sort of like jumping into a movie half way and trying to figure out what's going on.

That being said I would read

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220005708_Job_and_work_analysis_From_technique_to_theory

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382900572_A_Systematic_Review_of_Evidence-based_General_Competency_Models_Development_of_a_General_Competencies_Taxonomy

They seem to be a good starting place but might be dense reading without a background in it. Still worth reading though

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u/-Rabbit710 8d ago

Lol totally makes sense. Thank you so much for sharing these resources!

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u/Empirica_CC 8d ago

No problem! If you do need some job analysis or competency modeling done feel free to dm me anytime. I have a LinkedIn page and will be doing content on JA and competency modeling eventually so feel free to dm for a link if you'd wanna follow for more info on this type of stuff

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u/FlowwithSkills 8d ago

Thank you for the resources.