Gibbon - Playlists for Learning. Rapid Culture Change Is Possible: The March Madness-April Fool’s Day Edition. Does your organization need to change its culture quickly in terms of workplace conduct and ethics issues?
If your goal is to do the minimum but to give your organization defenses in case there’s ever a costly mistake, then here’s a road map to get you started. First, before any system-wide plan goes into effect, there must be top leadership sponsorship and support. When C-suite executives delegate all decisions about content and communication on these topics, you’re off to a fine start. “Get it done and keep me posted from time to time” are the words you want to hear.
Have the CEO publish a flowery, dense message about values and compliance using the same terms and phrases as every other company in your industry. Next, schedule mandatory training for everyone. Implement online training using a cookie-cutter set of templates so every segment looks like content from every other course already in place. Implement all of the above and you will quickly replace trust with cynicism. 9 Consultant Skills They Don't Teach You In Business School. In my 20 years as an international consultant, I’ve observed my colleagues in action: from the very predictable cohort of gray-suited analysts to the egotistical and colorful "friend" of the CEO.
And then, they are those who do great work. These often discreet consultants share nine skills, not taught in business school, that separate the effective from the awesome: 1. Dot-to-Dot Literacy Dot-to-dot literacy is the ability the connect the dots and as such anticipate threats and opportunities long before others do. Intelligence takes its meaning from the Latin "inter" and "ligare," or "between" and "links. " 5 Types of Workers in the New World of Work - Work Intelligently. To meet the demands of today’s changing workforce, business leaders need to understand that a one-size-fits-all workforce just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Whether you want to blame the launch of Facebook in 2004, the 2007 introduction of the iPhone or the boom of cloud technologies in just the past few years, it’s hard to ignore the fact that offices – and the people who fill them – are operating differently than they ever have before. Career Transition: From Technical Expert to Effective People Manager. Recently I spoke to a talented young software engineer who had been fast tracked into a management position.
In a very short period of time, he went from a self-fulfilled, highly competent individual producer to a stressed out leader. He found that he did not enjoy confronting under performers; didn’t know how to motivate or hold them accountable; and disliked navigating the inevitable office politics. His training had equipped him to develop programs not people He was concerned that he had made a mistake in accepting the promotion.
What’s the Challenge? Technical experts are often promoted because they have recognized knowledge and skills in their field. Another issue is that your identity in the organization changes. Strategies for Making the Transition to Manager 1. Career Success Tip: Making the transition from technical expert to manager can be challenging, especially if you have little or no management experience. Should You Leave Your Day Job? Change Your Company with Better HR Analytics - Mick Collins. By Mick Collins | 11:00 AM December 11, 2013 You’re probably a little tired of hearing about Big Data. While you would expect online giants like Amazon and companies like Netflix to be early innovators in the use of data to recommend products or movies, you only care about the answer to one question: what does big data mean for the everyday employee and how can regular businesses extract real value from it?
The good news is that Big Data is making a difference in places and ways you might not expect, particularly in human resources. Companies are analyzing their employee data with workforce analytics to answer a variety of critical questions: Why does one sales person outperform his peers? What is the impact of learning programs on company results? Black Hills Corp. is one of those companies. For other firms, more effectively using talent data is a key component of an HR transformation, one that seeks to improve the function’s role as a true business partner. Relevant. NLJ_SCARFUS.pdf. Gamification Design. About this course Why Gamification?
Games have become the new normal. The gaming industry is already more powerful than other ways of entertainment like music or movies. An average young person will spend more than 10,000 hours gaming by the age of 21 - somewhat the time that it takes us to master any kind of skill- and yet, there's a huge engagement crisis in many other areas. 70% of US full-time employees are not motivated by what they are doing, kids spend way more time engaged with video games than they do with books, the average attention span in 2012 was less than 10 seconds and it's decreasing every year...
It seems like only games are truly understanding how human motivation really works. And the most important question: How to do so? Course Structure Week 1 (17/03/2014) Games. Learning Outcomes In this course you'll learn the basics of Gamification with a highly practical approach. How To Shape Your Company Culture Before It's Too Late. New hires pour through the door most mornings at fast-growing startups and other companies fortunate enough to be booming in this economy.
And by that measure alone, those companies have a golden future--right? Maybe so, depending on whether leaders at those companies pay attention to the right mix of business priorities, including one that doesn’t make the list too often: conscious culture shaping. Veteran leaders of fast-growing companies see culture building as key to success over the long haul, but we’re not talking here about bagel Wednesdays, free beer in the fridge, or foosball tables. Shape it, or be Shaped By It!