b'"BUILDING A CAREER DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY MAY BE THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION YOU DevelopmentNEED FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION AND Trends YOUR PEOPLE. 6.Virtual learning will become the norm. Even after we see the end of the pandemic, much of future training resources will be provided to employees virtually, replacing physical events with online learning and webinars. 7.Companies will further commit to providing an engaging onboarding experience for new employ-ees. Retention-minded leaders will drive an organizational mindset of recruiting not just star re-cruits but star employees, and in order to do that, they will learn to seamlessly transition from an engaging candidate experience to an equally engaging onboarding experience, setting up new hires for short-term and long-term success. 8.Employee well-being was rising on the organizational priority list even before the pandemic (it had already been named one of the top-ranked trends of importance in the 2020 Deloitte study). In response to the COVID-19 crisis, however, this trend has greatly accelerated, finding companies increasingly more focused on their employees\' mental health and wellness. These efforts can im-prove employee performance and also reduce healthcare costs 9.Chunked learning will be more apparent in both online and offline training, breaking information into many, shorter segments, so the learner is never focused on one segment for more than 5 to 10 minutes. Spaced Learning will also become more prevalent, providing a 10-minute segment in between each chunked learning topic to engage the learner.10. Peer-to-peer learning, often called buddy programs, will continue to gain steam as a great way to quickly onboard and develop a new employee. Studies show that most people prefer learning from someone who performs the same job every day, and these programs have proven to benefit both people in the pairing.79'