The importance of digital skills

▶️ What are digital skills and why do you need them?

Let’s get right to it. Professional skills development used to be a luxury, it’s now a necessity. Digital skills combine both hard and soft skills and not only include how to use a cell phone and a computer, but extend to the ability to access, manage and create information.

This includes (but is not limited to) internet searching and email skills, social media engagement, AI, tools such as Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, using cloud software, screen casting, data analytics, visualization and storytelling, and evaluating information.

▶️Why is it important for you and your team to have digital skills?

Effective communication and collaboration. Ability to develop and share digital content. Problem solving in a work-anywhere world. Improved productivity. Workplace innovation. Career advancement. Adaptability. Make an impact. Generate income.

You could just patch all of this together. Maybe watch some YouTube videos, right? Perhaps.

Today’s digital world requires a continuous plan to both identify gaps in digital skills and how to strategically improve them. One and done training solutions will not work any longer.

Technology can be complicated. Our mission is to demystify technology to empower individuals with essential digital skills and knowledge to access information effectively, participate actively in society, and contribute meaningfully to the evolving digital world.