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Attract (& Keep!) Your Dream Team, Part 4: Credentials to Careers

Degrees have value however what has a deep impact on whether a person will be successful in a role is the ability to demonstrate they are capable of performing and using the skills and behaviors to a defined level of proficiency.  In this last of 4 videos, I highlight the value badges and other microcredentials … Continue reading

Attract (& Keep!) Your Dream Team, Part 3: Credentials, College, & Career

We use credentials as a rubric for hiring new people and evaluating internal candidates. In this 3rd of 4 videos, I highlight the advantages of using a broader view of the term credential to include traditional degrees and include other learning solutions, such as badges and nanodegrees, that indicate a person can demonstrate the skills … Continue reading

Attract (& Keep!) Your Dream Team, Part 2: The 5 “C’s”

Hiring people and getting them up to speed takes time and money so use learning strategically.  In the first video segment we looked at the big picture, the 5 interconnected steps that impact your team as it forms and grows. In this 2nd of 4 parts I share the 5C’s you can use to create … Continue reading

Attract and Keep Your Dream Team, Part 1: The Big Picture

Learning, used strategically, impacts the bottom line of your organization. Join me in this 1st of a 4-part video series as I share techniques to influence the employee lifecycle. This interconnected process has 5 steps where you can influence and engage your team as it forms and grows.  When we consider the stages in this … Continue reading

Learning is your 2021 Strategic Business tool!

Is your internal talent pipeline filled? Are your ready for the next initiative with a skilled and ready workforce? You might not need a full time Chief Learning Officer yet there is a benefit to having an advisor who focuses on the strategic development of your workforce and monitors the daily learning and talent performance … Continue reading

More than a seat at the table.

Learning & Development should be at the table to plan and be involved early on yet we need to be in the workplace more.  Join me in this video to explore going beyond delivering training and begin using learning strategically to provide the organization with employees who are prepared,  who can think, and use the … Continue reading

Competencies, career path, & success

https://www.williamjryan.com/  When you see a new role being posted there seems to be a set of competencies included and while they include admirable goals there may be a more advantageous use.  A competency describes the desired knowledge, skills, and behaviors that enable people to successfully perform their roles. So rather than using these as terms … Continue reading

Let’s create a community career path!

Do your workers jump to another company when there is an opportunity for a higher salary and more responsibilities?  Is this drain a challenge for you to fill?  Or is this an opportunity to build a broader talent pipeline that can benefit you as well as others in your community. In this short video, Let’s … Continue reading

Corporate Capability: Develop your workforce!

A capable worker needs more than technical or functional skills to be successful performing their role, they maximize these and utilize behavioral skills. We can impact the organization when we ask the business experts to define the broad range of skills people use in performing their role and how they are measured in the operational … Continue reading

The Ryan Report – February 2020

News to use, ideas to share in this month’s Ryan Report.  Love to hear your feedback and new topics to learn and grow with!

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