Workforce of the Future
The future of health care starts with you.
We want to help you sharpen your skills to do the best job possible:
• Sign up for Workforce Development Week, October 19 to 22. This virtual event, open to all Kaiser Permanente employees, will highlight resources you can use to grow your career.
• See resources to help you develop your career during the COVID-19 pandemic.
All employees can explore career paths and use tuition reimbursement to take courses to build your skills.
Eligible union members can:
• Sign up for the critical skills essential to meeting the changing demands of health care.
• Access career counseling, courses and more through 2 Labor Management Partnership-supported education trusts, Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust and SEIU UHW-West & Joint Employer Education Fund.
Also, check out our Future Ready Workforce of the Future Thought Leader Series. View replays of events on:
• The future of workforce education
• The future of work
Use the materials below to help prepare for the future. For questions about the Workforce of the Future initiative, email national-wfpd [at] kp.org (National Workforce Planning and Development).
Practical Communication Tools
- Find Your Path Learn about Kaiser Permanente’s new career paths tool.
- Career Paths: Tips for Managers A guide to discussing career development with employees.
- Critical Skills Toolkit Discuss critical skills with any audience.
- Workforce of the Future Facilitator's Guide Discuss Workforce of the Future with any audience.
- Workforce of the Future Conversation Toolkit Prepare for workforce change and build career resilience.
- Managing Career Growth Guides to address common challenges to career advancement.
- How-To Guide: Workforce Development Find services available to union-represented workers.
See It in Action
- Getting Future Ready Thought leader series offers tips to prepare for tomorrow’s jobs.
- Trusts Build Job Skills and Careers Preparing workforce for jobs of tomorrow.
- Finding Your Path Explore career options with new career paths tool.
- Learn Long and Prosper How tuition reimbursement helps workers, managers and KP.
- Navigating the Future Get ready now, build skills for the years to come.
- How Managers Can Support Career Development Great managers build their team's skills. Here's how.
