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Cultivating Curiosity: Questioning Assumptions for Creative Growth

There’s a degree of trepidation when questioning authority, asking “why” can be scary or it can be liberating. With rapidly changing technology, business models, and workplace trends, innovation is required to stay competitive. However, creativity doesn’t just happen on its own – it needs to be actively nurtured by supporting curiosity, and willingness to challenge … Continue reading

The Ryan Report – December 2023

Once we said, there’s an app for that and now there’s an AI platform for that! The pace of change is becoming faster and to keep up we need to reinvent and transform our organizations. But transformation is more than just adopting the latest app or AI system. Christopher Lind, CLO of ChenMed, shared that “Transformation … Continue reading

Beyond New Tech: Leading Transformation in Mindset

Once we said, there’s an app for that and now there’s an AI platform for that! With all the new tools and technologies being introduced the pace of change is becoming faster and to keep up we need to reinvent and transform our organizations. But transformation is more than just adopting the latest app or … Continue reading

Fixing the Hybrid Work Struggle

Remember when we all worked remotely? Work continued successfully and many of us rediscovered a quality of life and we have settled into a new normal, hybrid work – a flexible blend of intentional in-person and remote time. Workers have flexibility and companies have expanded their access to talented people anywhere. Seems like a win-win, … Continue reading

The Ryan Report: October 2023

Remember the magic triangle where you only get to pick 2? L&D juggles three key elements: compliance, development, and support. If we focus on the reactive needs of compliance and support then we’re missing opportunities to prepare people for future skills, roles and promotions. In this video I focus on taking an integrated approach to this challenge … Continue reading

The Magic Triangle of Learning & Development

Remember the magic triangle where you only get to pick 2? L&D juggles three key elements: compliance, development, and support. If we focus on the reactive needs of compliance and support then we’re missing opportunities to prepare people for future skills, roles and promotions. In this video I focus on taking an integrated approach to … Continue reading

The Ryan Report: September 2023

When you hear the word, “engagement”, what comes to mind? Two people looking to a lifetime together? A group of teammates aligned to a shared purpose? What about the idea that engagement means a continuous process of discovery, adaptation, and growth. It is a mutual commitment to each other’s well-being and success. It’s a mindset … Continue reading

The Ryan Report: August 2023

Still using a job description written by someone else many years ago to recruit people today? When I work with clients about using skills-based models, I utilize the 4 P’s framework to focus on operational performance and productivity. In this video, I outline the 4 P’s: Product, Process, Performance and People. Join me as I describe and show … Continue reading

Skills-based hiring? Use the 4P’s!

Still using a job description written by someone else many years ago to recruit people today? Consider skills-based hiring to broaden and build a deeper talent pool, Skills-based hiring is more than technical skills needed for a specific role, a person needs operational, relational and behavioral competencies to be effective in the workflow process. When … Continue reading

Vincent Price coined the phrase, “I know what I like … and I like what I know” and while he was referring to art, I see L&D teams with different operational requests provide one solution, a class or a course to be designed, developed, and then delivered. Learning and development professionals need to provide solutions … Continue reading

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