âHire for attitude, train for skillâ Iâve heard this quote so many times and from so many sources, I could not associate it with anyone anymore. I completely agree with this. Iâm sure you do too. Very few people get fired for their lack of knowledge or skill, itâs often due to lack of proper…
To be honest, I like facilitating team building for small groups better. I like seeing each participant eye-to-eye, facilitate deep conversations with them that lead to clear team rules of engagement and shared commitments. However, companies do need to get together and kick off some goals or implement some initiatives to align everyone. Often when…
âEverything rises and falls on Leadershipâ â John Maxwell This means that a lot is at stake in your organizational leadersâ ability to steer whichever part of the organization they are expected to steer so that the company can get to where it needs to be. The question now is, are your managers equipped and…
The ultimate goal is delegation. When I conduct training on People Handling Skills, I say that it is the ultimate goal, to get people ready for empowerment.  It is not an easy journey to take. To empower people when they are not ready is to empower incompetence, it does not bid well for anyone. There are two…
Iâm writing another article on this topic because I feel that I didnât do enough analysis on the impact of the elements beneath the surface of the Competency Iceberg Model that affect what appears on the surface in my last article. This topic is important to me as a learning and development professional and as…
Is it possible that you are wasting money on training because your learners are not ready to learn? Is it also possible that you are looking at the right training title, but it does not contain the necessary content for the participants needed learning? It is very much possible, and here is why I think it is…
First of all, strategic thinking is not strategic planning or management. The latter is a by-product of the former. Wikipedia defines it as âa mental or thinking process applied by an individual in the context of achieving success in a game or other endeavor.â  Now, who doesnât want their employees to be success-oriented? Everybody does.  But teaching…
ExeQserve, one of the Philippines leading HR and Training consulting companies recently conducted a two-day planning session for a global banking organization.  We chose to facilitate the workshop using two conversation methodologies; World CafĂ© and Open Space Technology or OST to enhance collaboration among participants. World CafĂ© is a simple, effective, and flexible method of…
By Edwin C. Ebreo If you are a Learning and Development Manager or an HR Manager in charge of strategizing, planning, and implementing the learning and development of people in your organization, I invite you to sit down with me and peers in the field to talk about the issues surrounding our role and what…
By Edwin C. Ebreo Managing is not the opposite of Leading. Being a leader doesn’t mean departing from managing. When you search the web for comparison between management and leadership you seem to get this comparison between good and evil, as if one needs to choose between managing and leading. As a training consultant in…
