CSCOs may believe the myth that their staff members don’t possess the strategic skills their roles require. But instead of stressing learning and development, supply chain leaders should improve the functional climate for their team and empower workers to use the skills they do have.
In this podcast, host Thomas O’Connor is joined by guests Meghan O’Doherty and Thomas Pocock to discuss what chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) can do to avoid accepting the skill gap myth as fact. The guests discuss how the expectations that supply chain leaders now have of their staff members have grown exponentially during the years to include strategic skills that these workers may not have previously displayed. If your team isn’t consistently displaying the strategic skills you need, don’t subscribe to the skill gap myth, as it might be that there is something about your functional climate that doesn’t allow your team to apply those skills.
Podcast based on Procurement’s Skill Gap Myth: Addressing Strategic Deficiencies Through Functional Climate