Earlier this year TMS Americas introduced the role of Sustainability Resource into the mix of things we do and offer to help sustain the use of our assessment products. We now call this the Sustainability Resource Person. So what is this you may ask? It’s really quite simple and we think an important step in helping people understand sustainability of assessment … Read More
Sustainable Assessment Use – The Expert
The last post looked at sustainable assessment use through the lens of the product. The second of the 3 key variables in sustainable assessment use is the expert. That person is typically trained and certified by the assessment company to use the product. Thus I’ve used the term expert. For most assessment companies the expert is their key customer. A … Read More
Sustainable Assessment Use – The Product
In the last post I listed 3 components that make up the typical usage model of assessments like the TMP: The product The expert The end user I also asked what people thought is the order of importance of those 3 components in enabling sustainable use. My perspective on that ordering is as follows: The end user The product The … Read More
Left Loop Stability and the Challenge of Behavior Change
In the last post I talked about the left loop of our interaction model. It is this left loop, our patterns of interaction that become stable over time. Stable enough that these patterns do not often really need to be thought about. This is what makes behavior change difficult and the point was made – ‘Heck, it’s not even easy … Read More
Sustainability in Learning – Ideas, Questions, Hopes and Concerns
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