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Who cares about the life of a building - how skills evolve
Skills can evolve over generations. The context of our skills can connect in surprising ways and lead to insights into our own creativity.
"A house is a machine for living in." ~ Le Corbusier
A skill map should take scale and proportion of all aspects of one's experience into account. What is significant will change depending on the scale.
Why categorize skills? The power of frames.
Ibbaka Talent uses a set of categories to help organize skills. We started with a folksonomy approach then added categories to help people see skills more clearly.
When and how to use a skill survey
Surveys may be overused, but they are part of the talent management toolkit, and we all need to get better at their design and interpretation. In this post, we explore when to use a skill survey and how they are applied
Skill gaps under the eagle's wings
A personal story of Gregory's first job as a young architect. There were skill gaps, he needed mentoring. Skill management would have made a difference.
Mind mapping product management skills
Product management (and service management) is emerging as a central discipline in the innovation economy. Here we use mind maps to explore the skills.
"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Hearing is passive; listening is active. We use our ears to hear and our brains to listen.
Getting ready for the transformation in HR
The HR Transform conference in Las Vegas in April 2018 is a good opportunity for HR leaders to convene and explore how the changing nature of work will change HR.
How are pricing skills evolving? Join the survey!
Join the Ibbaka-TeamFit survey on pricing skills. See how and why pricing skills are changing.
Homo Artes - the skilled human
Rather than Homo Sapiens or Homo Faber, we are Homo Artes. Mirroring, application, reflection is how we develop new skills. These are built into TeamFit.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
TeamFit is unique in combining the skills, the experience, and the teams who successfully worked together in the past under one profile.
Skills in the context of collaboration and communication platforms
Skills need to be part of the team conversation. Injecting skills into Slack, Hipchat, Teams conversations will help people share and develop their skills.
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
Your Skill Map may show you that a role you always wanted is within your reach. All of us have more skills than we imagine, TeamFit makes them visible.
Do you keep your profiles up to date?
LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, enterprise social most of us have multiple profiles. Few of us keep them up to date. Why not? Better ask Why?
Mind mapping career goals gives the insights needed for real collaboration
Mind mapping career goals give insights into team member’s motivation that can help promote real collaboration and alignment.
You can't hit what you can't see
Make your skills visible. Upload your resume or paste in some text. TeamFit will automatically build you a Skill Map. Just seeing it makes a huge difference.
Skill and Expertise Management 2018 - Preliminary Survey Results
Preliminary results for the Skill and Expertise Management 2018 survey. Interesting insights into why people are adopting skill management.
"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." ~ Albert Einstein
Knowing the trend and understanding the composition of a skill set is not a nice thing to possess - it has become a necessity.
Trends in the LinkedIn Design Thinking Group
The LinkedIn Design Thinking Group now has more than 100,000 members. The skills needed for design thinking are evolving as well. Check out the trends.
The best thing about memories is making them
TeamFit uses The Experience Model that follows the natural path of how autobiographical memories are stored.