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Upskilling your team

Upskilling your team

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Upskilling your team

- [Instructor] Along with adding new talent to the team, one of the best ways for a DevOps team to step up their game is to learn new skills on the job. This is known as upskilling. Upskilling happens when companies provide employees with training and development opportunities in-house. While it might seem like another expense to manage, upskilling can help save money by maximizing employee retention and minimizing the cost of bringing new employees onboard to fill gaps in skills. The best way to begin upskilling is to start where you are with what you have. Your team members are likely the best resource you have for bringing new skills to the team. I bet that each person on your team has some specialty or advanced skill that the rest of the team could learn from. By leveraging your subject matter experts to train the rest of the team, everyone benefits. Shadowing and mentoring are other ways to share learning opportunities…

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