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. You are key in helping us improve care and service. Be ready for coming changes in health care. Become a lifelong learner and get to know more about the critical skills.
Eligible union members can:
• Sign up for the critical skills essential to meeting the changing demands of health care: digital fluency, consumer focus, performance improvement and collaboration.
• 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.
All employees can use tuition reimbursement to take courses to build your skills.
Also, check out our Future Ready Workforce of the Future Thought Leader Series. Prepare for tomorrow’s jobs – watch the live webcasts. Events, which will be recorded, include:
• Future of Workforce Education: Michelle Weise, Strada Institute for the Future of Work, 2 to 3 p.m. PT, November 19, 2019
• Future of Work: Benjamin Pring, Cognizant Center for the Future of Work, 9:10 to 9:50 a.m. PT, December 6, 2019
Use the materials below for more tips, ideas and inspiration to 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 A guide to address common barriers to career advancement.
- How-To Guide: Workforce Development Find services available to union-represented workers.
See It in Action
- 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.
- Meet Your National Agreement: Change Is Here, Be Prepared How our contract helps employees skill up.
- Six Ways to Keep Your Skills Sharp Strategies from workforce development experts.
- How Managers Can Support Career Development Great managers build their team's skills. Here's how.
