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
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
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
Self Management or Diagnosis – What is Your Approach?
I remember the first time I had a battery of tests and assessments done when I was with an organization. I can’t quite remember why I was doing these things (which is another story!) but I do remember getting my results. Looking back now I consider myself very fortunate to have been working with the person I was working with. … 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
A Caution in the Search for Character
This post was originally published in the TMS Learning Exchange. It’s a bit longer than our normal posts…. In the aftermath of the 2008 semi collapse of investment capitalism and the ensuing and continuing global recession there is a growing trend calling on the need for ‘more character’ from those who we see as leaders in our organizations. Business schools … Read More
Blame and Accountability
About 3 years ago I posted The Language of Value as a comment on the subtle use of language to create a perspective of personal value for ourselves by making someone else’s perspective seem wrong. It is a subtle, often unconscious use of language to prop ourselves up while tearing others down. This post takes a look at a similar dynamic … Read More
Christmas Intentions
First of all, we here at TMS Americas hope you have a wonderful time over Christmas. Each of us, in our own ways intends to have a wonderful time as well. It’s interesting what often gets thought about when we use the term intentions. In the model we use to illustrate the flow of interaction, intentions flow into the interaction, … Read More
What would a 285 Year Old Tree Say to YOU?
I had the wonderful opportunity to work with a group of people a couple of weeks ago in a quaint retreat area about an hour outside of Paris, France. This is an extended development initiative with a version of an action learning design and this was one of the initial sessions. The retreat itself is surrounded by wonderful trees and … Read More