Last year I wrote only one post for the TMS Americas site. My blog energy was spent on 10 Good Reasons To Hate Work Teams and OUCH! – The Misfit Between Theory and Experience in Organizations. While the OUCH! posts will continue for a while I am starting a series of posts on the TMS Americas site focusing on sustainability; … Read More
The More or Less of 2016
Over Christmas we went to a few movies and while I liked all of them, two kind of jumped out from the screen and into this blog post; The Big Short and Room. You could say there is a lot about excess and scarcity in both films; a lot about more and less and what that might mean to people. In … Read More
Why We’re Changing the Assessment Business
Another post in the ‘rant’ category….. not too many of these but sometimes you’re just angry and need to express it! It seems like it should be easy in the books, the speeches and keynotes, the workshops and workbooks. It should be easy if we could only be good enough to do what ‘they’ tell us to do. The ‘8’ … Read More
Using the TMP HUB Applications – My Team and Pacing in a One Day Offsite
We will be writing a series of posts (and hopefully having some guest posters as well) about designs using the additional resources available in the TMP HUB. This one focuses on using the My Team and Pacing apps found in each person’s Online Activity Center in their TMP HUB. It was a group of 36 people and I had worked with … Read More
Changing the Assessment Business – New Stories!
Last year we wrote a series of posts focused on changing the assessment business with the last one sharing some real examples of those changes. You can see that post here. This post takes one of those stories and adds another chapter, 9 months later. We designed an internal accreditation with US Cellular modeling a process design (extended use of … Read More
VUCA – Process trumps Outputs
This post is a little longer than our usual ones – we hope you will bear with us and take the time to read it in its entirety and perhaps make a comment. Two weeks ago I was talking to one of our Network Members and the topic of VUCA came up. This acronym for environments that are Volatile, Uncertain, … Read More
The Gift of Accountability – Be Gentle When Opening
Of all the gifts we could get at Christmas perhaps the best would be a whole new bunch of accountability, along with a big dose of self management to go along with it. At least that is what I likely would have said in previous years. Today I’m not so sure. Even earlier this year I posted Blame and Accountability … Read More
Personality and Prediction – A Very, Very Slippery Slope
If you look around the web sites of personality assessment companies you will see a number of suggestions or direct statements that indicate that use of their assessment enables the user to predict performance. At some level this claim of prediction simply enrages me because of the following: There is little if any concrete research about validity. It will almost … Read More
Stories of Changing the Assessment Business
The key points of what we mean about changing the assessment business were outlined in this post some time ago, summarized as follows: Extend the use of assessment data by moving to more of a process design of debrief and ongoing profile usage. Creating more interaction between people to understand the assessment data. Encouraging higher levels of self management and … Read More
Boyhood, The Land of Painted Caves and Becoming a Grandfather…
A movie, a book and a role; what do these things have in common? Well, in this case a good way to launch a series of posts and hopefully discussions about designing learning and change initiatives that are more process oriented and enhance the experience of self management. The movie, the book and my new role I think are good examples … Read More