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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
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
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
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
Working remotely and as a hybrid worker has brought new challenges for leaders especially about building trust and autonomy and making sure everyone’s aligned towards the same goals and delivering quality work without micromanaging or losing touch. Check out this video where I share tips around building trust, fostering collaborative teams, and developing a culture of curiosity. Also … Continue reading
If you can’t see me leading, then how will you know I’m a leader? That’s seems to be a concern as many are pushing for a return to the office and others are asking, why? In this video I examine how leadership should be intentional with curiosity driving open conversations. Plan the time and focus on the people, … Continue reading
Remember saying, “there’s not enough time in the day to do everything” when we were still in the office? Seems this is still happening only we now have the data that shows our remote interactions are shifting to mirror our old in-person interactions more closely. In this video I share how I see the role of the … Continue reading
Days are getting shorter and cooler too yet this issue of The Ryan Report (with news to use & ideas to share) brings a hot new video that looks at how becoming a skills-based organization benefits the individual and the team by focusing on the skills and capabilities people bring to the work more than the idea that work … Continue reading
Monday Morning Musings 