First of all, let me sell you the big idea of building and strengthening your company’s mentoring culture. A well-implemented mentoring program can do a lot of good for the company. It is the most effective and efficient way of developing talents. It improves the communication, listening, facilitating, and learning skills of the company’s managers…
In this post, I wish to share my thoughts on three things; indicators that one is coachable, the value of coachability and how to be coachable. Are you Coachable? Let me start with what I think are indicators of one’s coachability. Try to answer the following questions: Are you actively seeking to improve your performance…
Do you remember when you changed your department or section’s name from Training and Development to Learning and Development? What changed aside from the name? Did any of these happen? You started shifting your focus from training to learning. Yes, there is a difference. You stopped requiring employees to attend training courses they did not…
This article is an excerpt from the book I wrote, The Performance Management Toolkit. This describes the inspiration behind the e-book. It also describes the roles played by HR, Line Managers, and employees in using the system to improve performance. Companies use the term Performance Management a lot. When you look at how they practice…
We heard this quote a long time ago. Simon Sinek mentioned something similar to it recently, and it went by viral. Do I agree? Should we really hire for attitude and train for skill? Yes, I agree! A lot of you would agree too if it’s not so darn difficult to do! I’ve been a…
It has become increasing important to be able to objectively assess the competency of personnel with an organization, whether for reviews, interviews, promotion, performance management, as some typical examples, to assess their technical capability or defining talent and high potential. This highly interactive workshop has been specifically tailored to aid those who must design, develop…