3 Major Ways to Close Skills Gaps Fast: How Bridge Helps With Employee Development

3 Major Ways to Close Skills Gaps Fast: How Bridge Helps With Employee Development

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If you’re looking for a powerful LMS that will take employee development at your organization to the next level, we’ve got good news for you! Bridge LMS is an all-in-one learning solution that empowers employees to take control of their own careers and close skills gaps in no time.

Keep reading to see exactly how you can ace employee development with Bridge.

Boost Professional Growth With a Structured Learning Approach

You don't just want employees at your organization to go through the motions. You want them to actively seek opportunities to grow and improve, staying tuned in and excited to drive the best results possible—both for their own sake and for the health of the business.

 

Routine, one-size-fits-all growth strategies won't achieve this. You need a personalized approach. This is where Bridge LMS comes in.

 

Bridge helps you offer flexible learning pathways that keep employees' professional growth on track without overwhelming them. With Bridge Journeys, you can easily schedule smaller content releases when the time is right to do so. Each journey can be customized to the specific needs of individuals. 

 

Spacing out courses and adding steps like checkpoints, live training sessions, 1-on-1s, and feedback ensures employees grow steadily. It's all about helping employees stay consistent and offering them clear steps and manageable targets that ensure they’ll improve over the long term. You know what they say about slow and steady winning the race!

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“With Bridge, employees can effortlessly connect their learning activities to workplace performance goals.”

Help Employees Take Charge of Their Own Career Advancement

Championing career advancement is good for business. It’s no wonder that 44% of organizations prioritize internal mobility programs. Empowering your employees to see a future at your company comes down to helping them take ownership of their own career paths.

 

Bridge is the ideal solution to get you there. The platform provides the framework and features you need to foster a culture of self-directed learning, enabling employees to actively shape their careers.

 

Here’s just one example of how Bridge can boost career development in four simple steps:

1) Start With Connection

Use Career Drivers to help managers engage reports in meaningful career development conversations, empowering employees to identify the goals that matter to them.

2) Connect the Dots

Managers can easily pair reports with the exact right resources to work towards their goals. Bridge’s content library will help you offer learning content and resources that boost growth. Our default, bundled courses cover a range of topics, including soft skills. Can't find what you're looking for? Our content partners at OpenSesame offer seamless content integration to open up a world of learning.

3) Boost Engagement

Employees can join skills communities to learn from their colleagues. They simply indicate which skills they'd like to work on, and Bridge automatically shows them potential coaches or mentors in those areas.

4) Keep Them on Track

With Bridge, employees can effortlessly connect their learning activities to workplace performance goals. This ensures alignment between learning and career progression. Managers can also see which modules their reports completed and how they performed. Employees can even request feedback and immediately share it with their managers. Having all these metrics in the same place can help managers have the most productive and inspiring performance conversations.

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“The right LMS can help you rise above the challenges the current landscape presents, giving you the practical infrastructure you need to turn your skills transformation vision into reality.”

Ace Your Skills Transformation Strategy

According to LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report 2025, nearly half of learning and talent development professionals believe there’s currently a skills crisis, with 49% agreeing with the following statement: “My executives are concerned that employees do not have the right skills to execute our business strategy.”

 

The good news is that the right LMS can help you rise above the challenges the current landscape presents, giving you the practical infrastructure you need to turn your skills transformation vision into reality.

 

With Bridge, you can take advantage of:

  • A massive database of over 30,000 job titles—and their corresponding skills—and our AI will automatically map skills to specific roles and define your skills taxonomy.
  • AI-powered skills identification that automatically tags learning library content with relevant skills, so employees can learn in a targeted way.
  • Data insights that give you the full picture of how skilled your employees are and where they can make improvements.
“Bridge makes it so much easier for our employees to access available learning opportunities, it removes roadblocks.” - Michael J. Mullin, Assistant Director, Learning and Development, Temple University

The Results Speak for Themselves: How Bridge Boosts Skills Development at Temple University

The learning and development team at Temple University needed a sophisticated LMS to take its employee development strategy to the next level. Bridge's learner-engagement features make it the ideal solution for skills development across the organization. It also offers a seamless user experience, which is crucial for sustaining engagement. 

 

“I can't tell you how many employees used to say that registering for live training was an arduous process,” shares Michael J. Mullin, Assistant Director of Learning and Development at Temple University. 

 

“Our legacy system would ask for a lot of information [...] It wouldn’t send reminders or provide options to add events to their calendars,” he adds.

 

Bridge has turned things around by helping employees engage with learning so they can work towards the skills they need. “Bridge makes it so much easier for our employees to access available learning opportunities, it removes roadblocks. Our employees have been so much happier with the ease of use. As a result, our program attrition has dropped significantly over time,” Michael says.

Want to Unlock Next-Level Employee Development With Bridge LMS?

Bridge is the ideal solution for employee development! Try it out for yourself by taking a product tour below. Or feel free to set up a demo and we can show you how Bridge unlocks top results.

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Chris Coffman

Chris is VP Product & Engineering for Bridge. Prior to joining Bridge in 2019, Chris led Product Management, Project Management, and UX for Rosetta Stone’s global language-learning business. Chris has over a decade of experience leading and coaching product teams. He began his career in venture capital and consulting, in the Silicon Valley and in Europe. Chris holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Washington.

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