90-Day Skills Sprint: Workshop on Eight Key Challenges
Co-create tactics, metrics and networks to close skills gaps within 90 days.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
12:55 PM - 1:40 PM
Choose the table that matches your biggest skills pain-point and work with peers under Chatham House Rule to design pragmatic, metric-anchored answers. Guided by an experienced host and a tight timer, each group will brainstorm tactics, converge through dot-voting, and craft a 30-word headline action supported by a clear success measure and first 30-day step. The eight outputs populate the live Action Board and become the core options in the summit’s 90-Day Skills Sprint Playbook. Expect lively debate, honest pitfalls, and immediately usable takeaways.
This session will explore
- Quantifying the skills gap – data models and sources.
- Governance and works-council alignment – KPIs and change communications.
- Scenario-based capacity and cost forecasting.
- Reskill versus hire ROI – finance narratives and break-even rules.
- Building and maintaining a common skills taxonomy and rapid skills discovery.
- Scaling skills-based rewards, mobility and talent marketplaces.
Learning objectives
- Generate three peer-validated action steps and one metric for a priority skills challenge.
- Apply dot-voting and sprint techniques to converge quickly on high-impact solutions.
- Gain practical tactics for engaging finance, works councils and business leaders.
- Identify credible 30-, 60- and 90-day metrics to track progress.
- Expand your trusted network of practitioners under Chatham House Rule.
Why this is on the agenda:
Organisations are racing to close widening skills gaps while justifying investments to finance, works councils and business leaders. Rapid, data-driven solutions—and credible metrics—are essential to maintain competitiveness, control costs and retain talent amid disruptive market shifts, EU labour regulations, accelerating AI adoption, and fiercely contested labour markets. This workshop tackles those pressures head-on.