Skills are the driving force behind an organization’s success, and with the world of work changing fast, building talent has never been more important.
At Bridge, our vision has always been to deliver a developmentally-focused solution that works for L&D teams and learners, harnessing technology to help you adapt, innovate, and stay one step ahead.
This vision continues to guide our strategy today and into the future, and is built on four core pillars.
Take a look at how we’re doing this by infusing Bridge with powerful features like AI-powered course creation, adaptive learning formats, and intelligent skill validation, and what you can expect as our vision continues to shape the future of learning and development.
1. Create and Scale Learning to Drive Skills Growth
The best tools are designed to work with you, not against you, and we know that you need a learning platform that works for everyone in your organization—no matter its size or its goals.
It all starts with content. Within Bridge, you can create, manage, and distribute content within a single easy-to-use environment.
Here are some of the features that make it possible in Bridge today:
- Course authoring: Essential and advanced course authoring tools empower L&D teams to swiftly create and distribute multi-device eLearning without in-depth instructional design knowledge.
- Embedded content: It’s quicker and easier for learners to find the training they need with 150 expert-led courses from Skillsoft, pre-tagged with skills, directly in your content library.
- A user-friendly experience: Efficient distribution and scheduling options give you a low-touch way to roll out training, ensuring that learning reaches the right people at the right time.
- Learning on the go: Bridge’s dedicated mobile app enables a seamless learning experience, giving people access to training anywhere, any time, on any device—even when they’re offline.
What's Next?
Bridge’s ease of use, combined with its focus on development, will serve as the foundation for our future vision. We'll continue streamlining your content creation experience by offering more personalized, adaptive learning formats to put the right resources in front of your people.
Here’s a glimpse of what’s ahead:
- AI course creation: Offering you a helping hand with course creation, by using AI to generate an entire on-brand course, including images, text, and quizzes.
- AI-powered content conversions: Turning your static content into engaging formats, including video and audio that are best suited to your employees’ learning preferences.
- Expanded content options: Giving you more ready-made content options tailored to your industry, use case, and employees’ learning preferences.
2. Identify and Build Skills
We believe that a successful skills strategy is rooted in the partnership between an organization and its people. After all, employees want learning experiences to help them grow.
Bridge Talent Suite makes learning and development purposeful for your people by giving them ownership over their career growth and connecting them to the training that supports their personal and professional development goals.
Here’s how Bridge goes beyond basic training, enabling companies to provide developmental opportunities:
AI-Powered Skills Taxonomies
Building a skills-first partnership with your people starts with understanding your organization's skills requirements—and to do that, you need data. Bridge leverages cutting-edge AI and real-time market data to build future-ready skills strategies. Here’s what’s available today:
- Skills taxonomy: Bridge’s AI-powered skills taxonomy instantly maps job roles to skills based on real-time labor market data.
- Auto-tagging skills: AI will scan your content library to connect your organization’s skills to your content and generate course summaries, ensuring targeted training.
- Skills coverage: Dynamic labor market data connected to your organization’s job roles provides business-wide skills coverage, helping you mobilize talent, offer targeted training, and stay ahead of emerging gaps.
- Insights for managers: Empower managers in their roles, and help them support employees by directing them to relevant resources with access to dedicated team-wide skills reports.
EXPLORE THE PLATFORM | ‘Self-Guided Tour: Bridge Talent Suite’
Targeted Skills Development
Skills insights provide employees with a blueprint to discover future roles and learning opportunities within your organization. This makes career planning and growth attainable, strengthening your organization’s talent pool while keeping your people motivated with:
- Career recommendations: Employees can see possible career moves within your organization, and the skills and learning opportunities to achieve this growth.
- Personalized development plans: Learners can define success criteria, enroll in training, add tasks, and track progress, making their growth measurable.
- Continuous feedback: Employees can give and receive feedback, helping them understand skills gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Mentorship recommendations: Staff can easily request mentorship from their coworkers based on skills and expertise to validate growth and support peer learning.
- Targeted learning and skills development: Within Bridge, learners receive recommendations for skills and associated content aligned with their job roles and skills gaps.
What's Next?
We’re continuing to build on the development experience so organizations can thrive, not just adapt. You can expect features that help you strengthen skills, using real-time data to anticipate and plan, and give employees the tools to unlock career success with personalized competency frameworks and career paths. Here are some of the product enhancements we have planned:
- Enhanced career pathing: Allowing employees to visualize career growth and close skills gaps by connecting aspirations with learning and finding the guidance they need to succeed.
- Proficiency-based skills matrix: Providing a clear skills matrix to define progression paths and competency levels, link roles to required skills, and validate employee growth.
- Mentorship elevated: AI-powered mentorship matching that identifies mentors based on shared goals, career paths, skill gaps and validated feedback.
SEE BRIDGE FOR YOURSELF | ‘Self-Guided Tour: Career Pathing in Bridge’
3. Validate Skills: Prove Learning Outcomes
Proving learning outcomes is about more than just assessments. To accurately measure proficiency and skills attainment, you need a platform that accounts for your entire workforce.
Let’s say, for example, that you need to check that a crane operator at your company can safely operate machinery. A formal assessment would be of little value. Instead, demonstrating proficiency would involve an experienced supervisor observing them in their role.
Learning and performance management have always been deeply connected within Bridge, and we believe that this connection is crucial for demonstrating how L&D helps people improve their skills and drive business success.
Here’s how you can use Bridge performance management to measure, track, and prove the impact of learning:
- Performance reviews: Structured performance conversations enable manager, peer, and self-evaluations, providing a well-rounded view of employee attainment.
- Manager-employee 1:1s: Templated conversation frameworks allow year-round touchpoints, creating a rich source of data about employee performance based on their learning progress, goals, achievements, and areas for improvement.
- Continuous feedback: Employees and direct managers can request feedback throughout the performance cycle, building a rich source of data about skills development and growth.
- Assessments and quizzes: Within Bridge, data can be used to assess knowledge, identify skills gaps, and track assessment scores.
- Checkpoints: Evidence-based assessments and reviews are an effective way to evaluate learner comprehension, ensuring they can demonstrate the required knowledge and competencies.
TAKE A TOUR OF THE PLATFORM | ‘Self-Guided Tour: Performance Reviews’
What's Next?
Expect more flexible forms of validation to accurately measure and track skills progression and application among your learners and faster ways to create assessments as we continue to roll out updates, including:
- Intelligent assessments: Assisting you in quickly generating robust assessments from learning content with AI analysis.
- Observational validation: Forms like checklists or rubrics to provide meaningful in-person feedback in real-time, enabling greater transparency among deskless workers
4. Demonstrate ROI
We know that proving the value of L&D initiatives means showing your leaders outcomes that positively impact business results.
When all your learning, development, upskilling, and performance data are in your LMS, you can surface insights to drive improvements that benefit your entire organization.
Bridge Analytics brings your data together, helping you derive actionable, business-relevant insights with:
- Strategic workforce planning: Real-time intelligence about the skills your organization requires enables more strategic planning based on real-time readiness, keeping talent mobilized for business success and filling business-critical roles.
- Content gaps: By auto-tagging your content, you’ll quickly spot if you’re missing learning connected to some of your organization’s most critical skills, and you can swiftly fill gaps by authoring your own courses or selecting off-the-shelf content.
- Validating skills: You can collect observational data, assessments, and feedback to check that training leads to skills development. You can also see how learners are engaging with content and whether it aligns with their skills and interests.
- Measuring performance: Linking your learning and upskilling data with performance goals, as well as individual and business-wide goals, provides valuable insights into how training impacts business metrics.
What's Next?
We’re continuing to automate the Bridge experience and make it smarter, so you can get quick insights and context-specific suggestions for making improvements that drive business success, including:
- Unprompted insights: Offering a deeper understanding of how employees are developing their skills with automated, AI-driven insights when you log into Bridge, leading to faster, smarter decisions.
- Skills forecasting: Helping to predict future skills needs using your job roles, skills inventory, and AI to stay one step ahead and respond to gaps before they emerge.
SEE WHY BRIDGE IS LEADING WITH FASTER TIME TO ACHIEVE ROI | ‘Bridge LMS Secures Position as a Leading Corporate LMS in G2 Fall 2025 Reports’
Want to Know More About Bridge’s Product Vision?
Join our Product Vision and Roadmap webinar on November 6th to learn more about these features, discover how we’re strengthening these capabilities, and what that means for you.
