Building Workforce Capability

The Learning and Development Initiative (LDI) leverages its proprietary FutureWork™ learning and development ecosystem to help organizations strengthen their workforce capability and organizational performance through AI-enabled learning and workforce development.

The following reports are just a few of the many illustrating how workforce capability has become essential to organizational resilience, competitiveness, and growth. Around the world, employers face rapid change driven by AI, automation, digital transformation, demographic shifts, and evolving job requirements. The reports emphasize that organizations must invest in continuous learning, upskilling, reskilling, internal mobility, AI literacy, digital skills, leadership development, and skills-first talent strategies. They also highlight the need to connect learning directly to business performance and career advancement. Together, the reports make clear that workforce development is no longer optional; it is core infrastructure for helping people and organizations adapt, innovate, and succeed.

  1. The Future of Jobs Report 2025
  2. New Economy Skills: Unlocking the Human Advantage
  3. 2025 Workplace Learning Report
  4. 2026 LinkedIn Talent Report: The Talent Velocity Advantage
  5. Development in the Future of Work: 2025 Learning Trends Analysis
  6. The Adecco Group Workforce Trends 2026 Report
  7. OECD Skills Outlook 2025
  8. Readying Adult Learners for Innovation: Reskilling and Upskilling in Higher Education
  9. Empowering the Workforce in the Context of a Skills-First Approach
  10. Job Skills Report 2025
  11. 2025 Tech Skills Report
  12. The Global State of Skills

Workforce Capability & Organizational Performance helps organizations strengthen employee capability, improve operational effectiveness, and drive measurable results through targeted learning, credentialing, workforce development, and AI-enabled capability building.

1. What is Workforce Capability & Organizational Performance?
Workforce Capability & Organizational Performance is designed to help organizations build the skills, systems, and learning pathways needed to improve performance in the Age of AI. Through NJIT’s Learning and Development Initiative, organizations can strengthen workforce capability, close skill gaps, support employee growth, and connect learning directly to operational priorities and measurable business outcomes.
2. How does NJIT LDI help organizations improve workforce capability?
NJIT LDI helps organizations assess workforce needs, identify capability gaps, and design targeted learning solutions aligned with organizational goals. Through the FutureWork™ ecosystem, LDI connects assessment, learning, credentialing, and workforce development into a practical model for building the capabilities employees need to perform, adapt, and lead in rapidly changing environments.
3. What role does the FutureWork™ Framework play?
The FutureWork™ Framework provides a research-backed model for understanding the capabilities employees need in the Age of AI. It helps organizations move beyond one-time training by creating a structured approach to workforce readiness, including AI literacy, data literacy, digital literacy, agile thinking, change navigation, and resource optimization.
4. How can the FutureWork™ Inventory support organizational decision-making?
The FutureWork™ Inventory gives organizations a practical way to evaluate workforce readiness and better understand employee strengths, gaps, and development needs. Individual results can support personalized learning, while aggregate insights can help leaders make more informed decisions about training priorities, team development, and organizational capability building.
5. What learning solutions are available through the FutureWork™ Portfolio?
The FutureWork™ Portfolio includes non-credit courses, microcredentials, digital badges, custom training, workforce development programs, and scalable learning pathways. Organizations can use these solutions to build practical skills in areas such as AI literacy, digital literacy, data literacy, project management, cybersecurity, leadership, communication, and job-specific workforce capability.
6. Can NJIT LDI customize training for a specific organization?
Yes. NJIT LDI works with organizations to design customized learning pathways aligned with specific workforce needs, operational goals, employee roles, and performance priorities. These solutions can support small and medium-sized businesses, large corporations, government agencies, public-private partnerships, nonprofits, healthcare systems, and other organizations seeking measurable workforce development outcomes.
7. How has NJIT LDI supported organizational performance in practice?
NJIT LDI has supported organizational performance through applied workforce development partnerships. One example is NJ TRANSIT’s partnership with NJIT LDI to enhance conductor training, safety, and workforce capability. This type of partnership demonstrates how targeted learning and workforce development can support operational effectiveness, employee preparedness, and mission-critical performance goals. Learn more about the NJ TRANSIT and NJIT LDI partnership.