After a bit of a break from blog post writing I’m back with the last of our 3 part series on the future of work. This post focusing on where we should be working from and I’ll admit up front, this will be a bit of a rant! I really struggle to understand why this topic is even a thing … Read More
The Future of Work – Our 4 Day Work Week
There has been quite a lot of focus on the future of work as we progress through the pandemic and into the uncertain times that lie ahead. One of the things that is gaining attention is the idea of a 4 day work week. As of January 1, 2022 TMS Americas moved to a 4 day work week. Basically, what … Read More
The Types of Work Wheel and Virtual Work
Early on in 2020 as the pandemic took hold we published a few documents focusing on the models of the Team Management Profile (TMP) and virtual work. Our small team here at TMS Americas has been virtual for about 18 years now and we thought if we captured some of our experiences through the lens of the TMP, people could … 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
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
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
Changing the Assessment Business – From Event to Process
This is the third post in our series on changing the assessment business. The first post dealt with our intentions and the second was more specific to our new social web site. This post looks a little more closely at what we think is a very important element of changing the assessment business; that being working with assessment/profile data more … Read More
Changing the Assessment Business – Our New ‘Social’ Web Site
In our last post – Changing the Assessment Business – we discussed a number of areas we are focusing on and this post will focus on one specific and very important element in these changes; our new ‘social’ web site. Our new site takes is designed to help in two areas: Extend the use of assessment data by moving to … Read More