Industry Profile Global Employee (millions, ILO estimates) 2 / 2 Chemical and advanced materials 86.3 6kill outlook Workforce strategy outlook Core skills )usiness practices to improve talent availability 6kills needed to perform well in key, stable roles within the company (share of organizations surveyed) Top practices with the greatest potential to improve talent availability (share of organizations surveyed) INDUSTRY G/2%$/ 6Nills NnoZledge and abilities $ttitudes 48%  22   2  . Improve talent progression and promotion processes INDUSTRY G/2%$/ 44%  2. Provide eijective reskilling and upskilling 22% 2 Cognitive skills 28% 2 . Better articulate business purpose and impact 5%  Engagement skills 24%  . Improve internal-communication strategy 14% 2 Management skills 24%  . Support employee health and well-being 4%  Physical abilities More diversity, eTuity and inclusion policies and 20%  . programmes 13%  Technology skills 16%  7. Improve people-and-culture metrics and reporting 6%  Ethics 16%  7. Oijer higher wages 23% 2 Self-eĴcacy Oijer more remote and hybrid work opportunities within 16% 2 7. countries 13 %  Working with others 12%  0 Improve safety in the workplace 9eskilling skill focus Key components of +,0 programmes 6kills most prioritized for reskilling and upskilling in the next five years (share of organizations surveyed) 0ost common components of 'E, programmes (share of organizations surveyed) 6Nills NnoZledge and abilities $ttitudes Global average INDUSTRY G/2%$/ 54% AI and big data 60% 2 . Run comprehensive DEI training for managers 54% Creative thinking 56%  2. Run comprehensive DEI training for staij 54% Resilience, IJexibility and agility Embed DEI goals and solutions across the supply 42% 40% 2 Analytical thinking . chain 42% Leadership and social inIJuence Set DEI goals, targets or Tuotas that exceed public 36% 2 . reTuirements 39% Empathy and active listening Enable inclusion and accessibility across physical and 32%  . 39% Talent management virtual spaces Provide greater IJexibility on degree reTuirements for 39% Technological literacy 32% 22 . roles 35% Environmental stewardship :hare of companies ^ith +,0 7rograms 35% 88% Resource management and operations (share of organizations surveyed) Global % :kill stability % 6kills reTuired by the workforce that are expected to remain the same (share of all skills Global % reTuired) Training type Types of training prioritized by organizations surveyed for future reskilling and upskilling (share of organizations surveyed)  2  2 2 ROLES INDUSTRY G/2%$/ 15%  Employer-sponsored apprenticeships 23% 2 Internal training departments 11%  Licensed training from professional associations 29% 27 On-the-Mob training and coaching 9% 2 Private-sector online-learning platforms 12% 0 8niversities and other educational institutions