Employee-Driven Skills Development: 2025 Trends Report

Growth is a continuous part of every career and workplace.

People want to work for organizations’ they feel contribute to their development and the realization of their potential. Getting there — the career journeys and skills — are unique to each person. And in most organizations, employees work with their managers to identify and chart their own learning paths.

Skills development also clearly offers significant benefits to the organizations who prioritize them — affecting engagement, productivity, recruiting and retention. 

What can organizations do to support a skills-based, continuous learning culture?

Through SkillPath’s work with thousands of business professionals crossing every industry, we asked learners to weigh in. See what employees want in terms of skills development, where they struggle, and seven ways organizations can chart a skill-building culture where everyone wins.