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Instead of New Year's Resolutions, look for the invisible
Instead of preparing the New Year's Resolution lists, I suggest the opposite - let's gather a list of the best moments from the passing year and use it as a launching pad for anything that awaits us. Happy New Year!
We are more than our work skills
Skill and competency models often focus narrowly on what is needed for work or a profession. But this is too narrow a perspective. We are more than the skills we need for work, and the work that we do requires more than those skills. A holistic approach can reveal more or our potential and make it easier to find the people we need to be working with.
Should you have a personal competency model?
Skill and competency models are generally seen as an organizational tool. They are thought of as a way to organize information about skills and competencies and align them with the organization to support skill gap analysis or career pathing. As individuals take more control more their careers, skill and competency models can become more personalized and a tool fo individuals and teams.
How to conduct a skill interview
Skills have been described as the new currency of business. Understanding skills has become an important skillset in its own right. One of the best ways to understand a person or a team’s skills is the skill interview. This is a structured approach that leads to a coded transcript that can be used in many ways in introducing skills.
Critical Skills - Listening
What is the difference between Hearing and Listening and why Listening is a foundation skill?