At WFSI, we’re laser-focused on competency as THE key to organizational performance. And while there are companies who say they have a competency focus, when you scratch a bit below the surface, you find that things aren’t necessarily what they may appear to be. One example we’ve seen repeatedly is in recruiting for “entry-level” positions….
What We’ve Been Reading Competency-based hiring… it’s an emerging trend, and it seems to (finally) be catching on. Maybe. It’s an interesting and emerging trend, driven by employer dissatisfaction with traditional skills proxies – there’s an article here from way back in 2015 from the US-based SHRM organization, that explains what it is, why you…
Our co-founder Jeff Griffiths has been selected to the inaugural Board of Directors for the Calgary “LearningCITY Collective” – a unique initiative to create a truly vibrant and rich learning culture in Calgary that includes all forms of learning: formal, informal and experiential, credited and non-credited, from all aspects of the learning ecosystem – school,…
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…
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…
