Fostering easier, faster ways of working: Cornerstone July 2024 release

At Cornerstone, our mission is to empower individuals at every level of an organization to grow, innovate and lead with confidence. At the heart of our mission is the understanding that when people excel, organizations flourish. This drives everything we do. 

And your feedback continues to be critical to us achieving that mission.

In our latest product release, you’ll see that we’ve listened to and focused on delivering intuitive, mobile experiences across solutions so you can work easier and drive innovation. We're using Generative AI when and where it makes sense so you can work faster and more effectively. We're investing in unified, integrated products so you can continue providing flexible, tailored, engaging experiences to your people.

Already this year, Cornerstone has helped enable you and your people to complete 830+ million learning courses, which is a 12.4% increase compared to last year at the same time. That’s nearly 100 million more completions!

I am also proud that in line with our product ethos of inclusivity, our teams continue to deliver accessibility enhancements to all of our products in Cornerstone Galaxy. Just this year, we have delivered approximately 1,000 enhancements across our solutions!

So, let’s dive in!

Cornerstone’s July product release focuses on three areas: 

Improving and simplifying your experience

We continuously refine and enhance the accessibility, usability, navigation and overall experience of our products. Our goal is to help make it easier for you and your people to stay engaged by streamlining and updating complex workflows or interfaces, expanding functionality in our mobile app, and enabling you with more self-serve tools. In fact, so far this year, we’ve seen nearly 93K unique Check-In conversations between employees, this is a 5% increase compared to last year at the same time.

• Use Check-Ins anywhere, anytime, with the Cornerstone Mobile App (early adopter). You and your teams can stay connected, productive and on track, no matter where or what device you use. 

• Take advantage of a unified landing page in Content Manager (open beta). Simplify your content experience from search to creation to management with an enhanced, mobile-responsive UI.

Saving you time and meeting your unique needs with Generative AI

We incorporate AI where it makes the most sense throughout our suite of solutions to drive efficiency and reduce administrative burdens. This enables you to focus more on strategic decision-making and less on routine tasks. With over a decade of AI innovation in our products, we focus on providing tools that adapt to the individual learner, enhancing engagement and efficacy, while prioritizing ethical and responsible AI use (focused data security and seamless integrations).

• Enable personalized development experiences in Content Studio via Generative AI (open beta). Quickly generate engaging content descriptions that are optimized for search with the gen-AI powered Cornerstone Companion.

Committing to advanced analytics, extensibility and unification 

We design our products to be flexible, unified and holistic, providing all the tools and resources needed to meet your business objectives. With Cornerstone Galaxy, you benefit from seamless experiences, integrated data, and skills that provide clear paths to performance and success for your people and organization. 

• Continually improve learning programs with insights and benchmarking in Content Studio. Increase your understanding of content consumption and learner behavior trends; see how you rank and perform against relative peers in your region, market segment, and vertical.

• Speed up hiring with our Indeed integration for Cornerstone Recruiting. Deliver a seamless application process for candidates as all Indeed applications automatically transfer to your system. 

Continue evolving with a holistic learning strategy

Provide your people with a more powerful and personalized learning experience when you unlock a suite of benefits designed to meet every need and exceed every expectation.

Why evolve now?

• Empower people to skill up while meeting your compliance needs – Provide self-driven, personalized learning experiences, using both self-identified learning goals and organizational requirements, to drive high-relevance and high-impact development. To support people’s growth, equip your managers to coach development and make learning recommendations.

• Deliver timely, contextual content – Let AI do the heavy lifting of mapping skills to content for personalized learning recommendations in line with learning goals and roles. We ensure that those recommendations are of the highest quality with our expertly curated content subscriptions from top providers.

• Drive knowledge sharing and engagement – Activate your internal experts to create and curate content and lead academies. Enable people to learn from and with one another through a social, collaborative, and gamified experience.

Read the full customer story here.

• Drive learning engagement via the enhanced Curriculum Player. Streamline your processes while promoting learner engagement in a new, intuitive interface.

• Reduce admin burden with better load support and bulk add, update and removal capabilities using Edge Import. Manage your own data imports with ease, removing dependency on support teams.

• View real-time skills data across your organization via a redesigned Skills Profile. See actionable insights in the same view as skills, empowering both managers and employees to seek areas for growth and take action.

• Build critical skills faster through immersive learning courses available in Content Subscriptions. Meet your employees’ diverse learning styles via out-of-the-box extended reality (XR) content or by creating personalized simulations.

Our ongoing goal is to meet you where you are in your talent journey so you have the tools and resources you need to meet your organization's objectives. We strive to achieve this goal through continued improvements, updates and enhancements to our suite of solutions.

Coming soon in our November release, with additional updates planned for March 2025 and beyond, gear up for: 

• Advanced, self-service administration of Cornerstone Skills Studio, giving you increased flexibility via 3rd party or custom taxonomy integrations 

• Management of Skills Profile in the Cornerstone Mobile App, including declared skills, viewing skills gaps, capturing ratings, ensuring you and your teams don’t skip a beat when working from a mobile device

• Generative AI in goal creation, enabling you and your teams to write accurate, understandable and meaningful goal descriptions in Cornerstone Performance 

Have an idea for a product enhancement or improvement? Be sure to visit Idea Lab — our new ideation community — as our product teams check this regularly, and as you see, many of our newest features and updates are driven by you and your feedback. 

To learn more about how Cornerstone Galaxy and Upgrade to Learn can benefit you and your organization, book a personalized demo.