The End of Job Titles? The Rise of Skills-Based Organisations

The Skills-Based Organisation: Are we shifting away from the timeless entity of the Job?

We often introduce ourselves by our job titles. We recruit for jobs, progress to different versions of them, and in some ways, we become them, defined by the concept of a job.

Perhaps, until now.

We are beginning to see, hear, and experience something emerging: the Skills-Based approach. This shift is happening in hiring and selection, as well as across a wider organisational context. It’s like an "extreme" version of work that is no longer contained within the vessel of a job. We've already seen the Gig Economy and contingent worker models spark a lot of interest (often negative), yet they’ve become a recognised and additional part of organisational design and operating models. But is there more to come? Is this the first wave in the deconstruction of jobs into something else? Are traditional jobs still relevant as we move into an era dominated by AI and automation?

In this virtual session, Perry Timms — 2022's No. 1 Most Influential HR Thinker, author, speaker, Guest Professor, and enterprise founder — will share his research and insights to help us understand:

What we mean by Skills-Based, and what this phenomenon is likely to mean now, in the mid-term, and in the long-term
How the concept of Skills-Based Organisations is being developed and delivered today
If Skills-Based Organisations will truly symbolise and significantly strengthen the agile principles needed to create more adaptive organisations

Anyone interested in Agile at Scale; Change and People Professionals introducing more adaptive operating approaches, and Organisation Design & Development Practitioners, should benefit from a clearer way to bring Skills-Based approaches into their work.