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With lessons to learn and ideas to share, welcome to this month’s Ryan Report. In this month’s vlog, I reflect on the remarkable human capacity for growth and transformation. Drawing from the experience of attending a physician’s residency match ceremony, I explore a vital leadership principle: the need to continually reexamine my views of others as … Continue reading
Does your organization struggle to find leaders with true strategic thinking capabilities? Despite its critical importance, critical analysis and problem-framing often take a backseat to technical skills in hiring and development. In this video, I expose the costly gap between the strategic mind’s leaders need and the tactical skillsets companies tend to prioritize. There’s a compelling … Continue reading
As remote work becomes more common in 2024, traditional corporate hierarchies will begin flattening to empower employees at all levels with greater autonomy, responsibility, and strategic input. In this video I share techniques to retain talent by embracing “leaders at all levels” and evolving managers and employees into decisive, empowered collaborators suited for flatter organizational structures shifting … Continue reading
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
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
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
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. We’re missing the need of the broader learning community with this model, to be blunt, not every training request or … Continue reading
What would you do? New machine that requires 8 people/shift to operate and 24 hours to prepare training as they install the machine and 1 operating manual. We learned by doing along with the participants because sometimes, the best learning happens when you don’t know all the answers but share a desire to figure it out, … Continue reading
What would you do? New machine that requires 8 people/shift to operate and you have 24 hours to prepare training as they install the machine and only one operating manual. Sometimes the best solution is to admit the truth, we had no materials, no slides, no lecture. Just one manual and a lot of curiosity. … Continue reading
https://www.williamjryan.com/ I was working on a project when a senior lead asked me if I had included all 4 “I’s”. The model described was that with the directions (instruction) and the content in context (information) and using an active assessment strategy (interaction) the result would be an improved work performance (innovation), the “I4”! A recent post … Continue reading
Monday Morning Musings 