As a newly(ish) graduated student, I’ve learned that the job-hunting process can be a real rollercoaster ride. One moment you’re feeling confident and excited about a job opportunity, and the next you’re refreshing your email inbox every five seconds, anxiously waiting for a response. I know first-hand how challenging it can be to find a…
I am writing this short blog for business owners, line managers and HR staff trying to set up their businesses to become more competitive in the employment market but finding it difficult to move their teams ahead. It addresses the difficulty of attracting and retaining talent on two levels. Firstly, it provides some very brief…
What exactly do I mean by that? Well, below are a few questions that I’ve asked myself whenever I would evaluate how effective my processes are: Processes that you’ve spent inordinate amounts of time, money, and effort on. How effective are they for getting the job done and the results that are needed? How are…
As a senior leader in your organization, you know the importance of finding and hiring the right people. Your employees are the lifeblood of your company and can make or break your success. Yet so few companies are taking full advantage of a recruiting process that is not only faster and more effective, but also…
In one of my other incarnations, I’m a volunteer at the Rockyview Wildlife Recovery Centre (www.rockyviewwildlife.org). One of many wonderful things about interacting with wild animals at RWR is the lessons we can learn from the experience. The other night, I was finishing my shift, feeding the last of a menagerie of orphaned baby hares,…
What do you mean by “Pond Half Full?” For those who haven’t been paying attention, ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative language chatbot was released for free public use in November of last year. (if you haven’t had a chance to experiment with it yet, you should: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ ). The system has been developed and ‘trained’ to hold…
Jeff Griffiths, FCMC CTDP Profession: An occupation in which a professed knowledge of some subject, field, or science is applied; a vocation or career, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification. – Oxford English Dictionary Creating competency frameworks and competency models is an evolving field that has gained greater prominence over the…
By Peter Andryszewicz Competency Implementation If you’ve been keeping up with our blog, you should now have an understanding of what a competency is, how to organize them, what they can used for, the value of using them and how much detail is needed to make them effective. If these articles have convinced you that…
By Peter Andryszewicz You’ve read our series on competency here. Now you’ve decided that you want the bring in a competency-based system into your organization. Where do you start? The best starting point is to scope the project. This will ensure that you have thought about what you want and, what it takes to get…
J.L. Griffiths, FCMC CTDP Quality is the key to success. Creating quality – that is, delivering what’s promised to the customer (and then some) the first time, every time should be the aim of every organization. But what drives quality? Is it the process? Technology? People? Something else? I believe that quality occurs at the…