MySkillCenter Growing Your Stories for the Future

When embarking on a culture reliant on skill-based pay and structure, the following should be kept in mind during development and deployment so as to increase the positive impact on criteria, culture, and compensation.
Criteria:
Criteria for skills and assessments can be established through focus groups of “experts” within the organization and external to it.

Establishing criteria:

Executives [...]

Culture:
Culture will be impacted by a change itself. As the criteria and compensation change, so will the culture.
Progressing through Change:
The progression of a culture is determined by the ability of the organization to manage change effectively. In order to do so, the following items are recommended prior to implementation and even some [...]

Purpose of Corporate Universities:
Corporate universities may be set up to assist an organization with:

Organizing training
Initiating change within an organization
Determining impact and ROI of learning within an organization
Establishing a common culture
Develop and retain employee

Important Components Prior to Development
Company Core Values – These should drive common areas of learning within an organization and represent the culture and [...]

Have you sat in a class and wondered how people found such a wonderful trainer? Well, that’s for another post. However, if you are wondering how to begin assessing the performance of a trainer/facilitator, click on the title of this post and you will be taken to an example of a tool that [...]

Are you trying to measure satisfaction of your learning/training events? Here is a tool that can help. It is rather general, but achieves some success in connecting the dots in your learning environments and operations. Check out this PDF of an example survey: Satisfaction & Application Survey

Satisfaction is the first step in measuring the success of a learning environment. Understanding your audience’s reaction to any environment helps drive change and encourage top performance continually as introduce new concepts and information. Here is an example, you will be taken to one example of a basic satisfaction survey to use within your learning [...]

This book was a great addition to my formative years as a professional. It opened my thoughts up to what needed focus in my career and where I was headed. The first part of the book was dry and a little off the topic of strengths. In fact, it seemed to center more on weaknesses. [...]

From a large team to a small team, this book provides opportunities for discussion. The book shares stories about invidivuals such as Colin Powel, Bill Gates, and Tiger Woods. It is backed by the research of the Gallup organization and contains a code to an online feedback tool in StrengthsFinder. This feedback [...]

Create a Consistent Beat to your Organization…
Training With A Beat*

“Music holds amazing power over us. While it permeates and gives rhythm to our lives, its rarely used effectively in classrooms. Training with a Beat is a lively introduction to understanding that power, and applying it to learning. This practical “how-to” guide is written with [...]

Evoke: Connect with the People in the Organization
Are you looking for a way to generate some discussion and make connections within the work place? Well, “Incorporate Poetry” by Skyler Wolf Jones does just that. Skyler uses a blend or poetry, experience, and creativity to drive those in [...]