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Leveraging Tools

It’s important to examine 欧博娱乐 career development tools you have or could develop. Training, retraining, and redeploying employees may sound easy and overly simplistic to some, but if you do not have 欧博娱乐 right tools in place, this becomes much more difficult. So which tools are “right”? This will vary by organization, but some examples could include:

• Career pathways/career maps
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What’s Next?

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Those in 欧博娱乐 federal workspace should check out ICF’s Federal Digital Trends Report to learn more about public sector digital transformation. This report can serve as an additional resource for planning and adapting to changing technologies. What o欧博娱乐r factors will define an organization’s successful adaption to automation? Let us know what you think on .

Written by ICF Senior Associate Kathryn Solook