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What is skill diversity? How does it impact performance?
Skill diversity is important at the individual, team and organizational levels. What do we mean by skill diversity? What value does diversity provide? How can we achieve it? Ibbaka Talent gives insights into skill diversity and a place to act to increase the skill diversity of individual, teams and organizations..
Brian Conlin on the special nature of employee-owned firms and the skills needed to grow them
Brian Conlin has been an important advisor to Ibbaka Talent. As the former CEO of Golder Associates and a CEO coach himself he brings deep insight into the skills needed for success at employee owned enterprises.
Connecting social and business impact - an interview with Thealzel Lee
Thealzel Lee is a connector, not just in the Vancouver innovation ecosystem, but between the fo-profit and non-profit sectors. She brings a richly diverse life experience to her work in innovation. One of her key insights is how silos are coming together in many ways to drive positive change.
Early Stage and Growth Companies Are a Team Sport - an interview with Pieter Dorsman
Pieter Dorsman is a catalyst for the innovation economy in British Columbia. Over the past two decades he has made a major contribution to making innovation part of Vancouver’s culture. In this interview he talks about the importance of building a board for early and growth stage companies that acts like a team.
Celebrating the Diversity of People - An Interview with Jennifer Rogers
Jennifer Rogers is one of the leading practitioners of skill and competency management, having led roll outs for major companies in the energy and resource sector and having worked as a learning and development consultant. We interviewed her to get her view on the state of the art and the impact that skill and competency management can have on the organizations and individuals.
What is diversity of mind and how to apply it in teams
Blackrock CEO Larry Fink has said that "the most important component of good management is ensuring diversity of mind. How do we find and cultivate this?