1. In the Manpower Group article, Closing the Skills Gap, What do workers want, the authors have presented some data to describe certain characteristics of the 2020 workforce. To practice using data to inform decisions, choose three points that you surmise from the data and explain how these points impact employee training and development, using the data to support your premise. They can be positive ideas that can be leveraged for T&D or they can be negative concepts that could create challenges in the development of T&D interventions.

2. The Deloitte Insights article describes the "employability gap", Do you believe that this gap exists? Explain your position and whether this concept should or should not be a part of an organization's T&D strategy.

3. In the article Transform to Perform, what the main role of training and development in achieving a transformation strategy?