Key Takeaways
- Cornerstone AI validates real skills, reducing reliance on self-reported assessments.
- AI-driven content creation and curation simplify management and boost learner engagement.
- Personalized, immersive learning experiences improve skill development, retention, and career mobility.
At Cornerstone, artificial intelligence isn’t just an add-on; it’s at the core of our platform. With more than 150 AI capabilities across the platform (and many more in development),we are committed to using AI to not only enhance your experiences, but drive sharper insights, speed up your workflows, and drive real business impact.
Ready to experience what’s possible? Let’s dive into four of our most impactful AI-driven experiences in Cornerstone Learn.
AI-driven skill discovery and validation
The problem
One of the most complex challenges facing organizations today is understanding what skills employees possess versus what they need. Traditional skills assessments rely heavily on self-reporting, which can be inconsistent, incomplete, and vary amongst generational cohorts and genders.
For instance, "Generation Z demonstrates the highest confidence in their digital skills, with nearly 90% rating themselves as having advanced or very advanced digital skills, compared to Millennials at 85%, Generation X at 25%, and Baby Boomers at just 10%" (nature.com)
However, we know confidence does not always correlate to comprehensive workplace or soft skills. An equitable and holistic view of current and future skills is required to adapt to the changing business models, roles, and opportunities in the future.
How Cornerstone can help
Cornerstone’s AI-driven skill discovery and validation change this dynamic entirely.
Beyond the skills an employee has self-identified, Cornerstone analyzes contextual data, like employee roles, learning history, performance indicators, and career progression, to recommend personalized skills for each person. Rather than asking employees to merely self-report their competencies, AI validates skills through behavioral data and workplace performance.
This capability creates several immediate benefits. Learning and development teams gain visibility into true skill strengths and gaps across the organization, enabling more targeted and timely training investments. Employees receive accurate skill profiles that support their development goals and career mobility. The validation component ensures that skill profiles remain current and accurate. This dynamic approach means skills data becomes more valuable over time rather than growing stale.
AI-driven content creation, curation, and management
The problem
Content management has long been a resource-intensive challenge for learning and development teams. Organizations often manage multiple content vendors, struggle to maintain relevant learning programs across diverse learning materials and modalities, and spend considerable time manually curating learning programs for different employee populations.
How Cornerstone can help
Content creation
Cornerstone offers content authoring solutions for a variety of skill levels and use cases.
With Create Tool, SMEs, instructional designers, or learning administrators can create e-learning content from scratch using templates or modify existing Cornerstone Original or Grovo content. Using AI, creators can translate and caption with AI into nearly 40 languages. This enables organizations to create consistent learning playlists or curricula across languages and geographies.
Using our immersive content authoring tool users can create virtual human simulations based on real-life scenarios and applications to give learners a place to practice in safe-to-fail environments. The solution features out-of-the-box virtual human characters, environments, and gestures that can be customized to represent an organization's culture and common scenarios an employee could experience.
Within Learn, internal subject matter experts can create and curate content and learning experiences to share their expertise and institutional knowledge with the rest of the organization. SMEs are able to pull from content they’ve created as well as external resources to create relevant, market or research-led content and experiences.
Content curation
Cornerstone’s curation capabilities are equally powerful. Rather than manually sorting through thousands of learning resources, Content Studio analyzes content across your proprietary and subscription content to identify the most relevant courses aligned to specific skills and business objectives. As a result, administrators can more easily meet business demands with AI-driven content recommendations for building collections and playlists. To further refine collections, curators can use natural-language prompts to meet specific skilling needs or learning preferences. This ensures employees receive targeted learning experiences with enhanced precision, improving consumption and engagement of learning content.
AI-driven Content Curation
Content management
Cornerstone’s Content Manager supports personalization, automation,and delivers actionable insights to learning administrators. Content Manager uses AI to tag and categorize content, making it easier to search and discover content. Cornerstone Learn identifies user skills, progress, and performance data to suggest or generate personalized learning journeys. And, it assists in analyzing engagement data, course completion rates, and content performance for administrators to refine learning programs and the content within them.
AI-driven personalized learning
The problem
Employee expectations for personalized experiences have fundamentally shifted. Generic training programs that treat all learners identically often fail to engage modern workforces and deliver poor learning outcomes. According to PWC, fewer than half (46%) of workers say they moderately or strongly agree that their employer provides adequate opportunities to learn new skills that would be helpful for their career.
How Cornerstone can help
Cornerstone addresses this challenge by creating personalized learning paths and experiences.Cornerstone Galaxy AI analyzes each person's role, previous course completions, aspirational goals, interests, and skills gaps and surfaces courses, videos, articles, and learning paths most relevant to their needs and goals.
Administrators can further personalize learning experiences during curation with insights into content, topics, and modality consumption as well as skills being pursued by their employee populations and relative peers to ensure their learning programs are impactful and competitive.
Immersive Learning
The problem
Workplace learning seldom provides opportunities for hands-on practice, critical thinking, or emotional engagement despite these skills acting as the foundationof organizational culture and customer interactions.
How Cornerstone can help
Cornerstone Immerse Companion allows individuals to practice real-world scenarios and in safe, controlled environments. These experiences are enhanced with open-ended, generative conversations with virtual humans that are entirely personalized to the individual learner.
Here are just a few of the use cases and applications for Immerse Companion:
Coaching
A learner can engage in an adaptive, open-ended discussion with a virtual subject matter expert on specialized topics, such as marketing best practices, generative AI, or communication, critical thinking, or presentation skills.
Role play
A learner can practice giving a presentation or a conversational scenario and get adaptive, personalized, real-time feedback before having a conversation in real life. For example, a salesperson practicing objection handling or a negotiation scenario. Likewise, a first-time manager could practice a development conversation, equipping themselves with skills and confidence prior to a live discussion.
Advisor
A learner can participate in a personalized, consultative session with an AI virtual human who will train or mentor the learner on a specific subject. For example, the virtual human can act as an onboarding buddy for a newly hired employee.
Immerse Companion Onboarding Buddy
Measuring the Impact of AI-Driven Learning
The proof points for AI-driven learning software speak to measurable business outcomes. Organizations implementing these capabilities report significant improvements across multiple dimensions of workforce development performance.
Here are some examples of how AI-driven learning has helped many organizations:
- By integrating AI-driven solutions and immersive technologies, United Airlines has been able to provide personalized learning experiences tailored to the specific needs of its employees. This has improved engagement and knowledge retention, and helped them to onboard 20,000 new hires in the past two years.
- Alight Solutions achieved a 96% utilization rate for its learning content, demonstrating how AI-driven curation and personalization can drive employee engagement.
- FirstBank of Tennessee saw an 82% increase in internal promotions, showing how personalized skill development translates to career mobility and retention.
These results demonstrate that AI-driven learning software delivers both immediate operational benefits and long-term strategic value for organizations committed to workforce development.
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