How Much Is It Costing You to Throw Out Talent vs. Skilling Them for the Future?

Chasing skills that change every year is expensive. Investing in people builds trust, morale, and loyalty that pay off long after the next technology wave. 

Stop Throwing Out Talent. Build a Strategy for Skills That Change. 

Layoffs are everywhere. Too often, soul-crushing recruiting bots filter people out before they even have a chance to be seen. 

Here’s the truth: most organizations don’t actually have a people problem; they have a skills problem. 

I’ve seen bright, loyal employees get labeled as “outdated” simply because the business was shifting toward new technologies. Suddenly, conversations turned to replacement instead of investment. 

What if the strategy were different? 

What if instead of asking, “Who do we need to replace?” we started asking: 

• What’s our future vision? 

• What skills will get us there? 

• How can we prepare the people who already care about this work to lead that future? 

  
  

When you start with great people, skills can be taught. When people feel invested in, not discarded, they give back tenfold. I’ve seen it work. We have created award-winning programs that re-skilled employees for new technologies and prepared them to thrive in changing markets. 

Gallup estimates disengagement costs businesses 34% of an employee’s salary in lost productivity. Imagine flipping that on its head, not by replacing people, but by re-energizing them with new skills and new purpose. 

The call to action is simple: 

• Don’t throw out your best talent. 

• Develop them so they have the skills of the future. 

Want to keep your best people? Let us at Level Up Enterprises partner with you to design a strategy, build the right training program, and create the content so your teams are ready for what’s next. 

Keep the people. Teach the skills. Build the future. 

Here’s the real cost of talent decisions