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by Steven Forth |
Jan 13, 2020
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Leverage unused skills – develop potential skills – combine skill sets The capabilities you are developing will determine the opportunities you can execute on. One of the responsibilities of any...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jan 6, 2020
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Top photo: What is left today from the magnificent Słobity Palace in North-Eastern Poland, photo by Fools Riders, 2019   Gilles Clément is a renowned...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Dec 16, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Top photo: Volvo 122S Amazon for US market. For more, visit: www.volvoamazonpictures.se   Ten days left to Christmas. This time of year, visits to the...
by Steven Forth |
Dec 2, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Questions from the Brandon Hall webinar with Claude Werder on 5 Strategies to Transform HR On November 21 we joined a webinar with Claude Werder, Principal HCM Analyst at Brandon Hall...
by Steven Forth |
Nov 13, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Potential skills, core skills, target skills are all central to performance management As an individual I want to improve my own performance. As a leader, I want my teams to...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Nov 11, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile   Our Competency Modelling module is ready. We are working with a few early adopters of our technology, observing and learning from subject matter experts...
by Steven Forth |
Nov 7, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Co Creation is one way that ‘open competency models’ are actually open! Pricing Expertise and Customer Success are two of the key capabilities for growing companies. Ibbaka-TeamFit are building open...
by Steven Forth |
Oct 21, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Top Image: Gowland Todd Provincial Park near Victoria   A competency model can connect communities, help to build expertise and even create new professions At Ibbaka-TeamFit we are supporting the work of...
by Karen Chiang |
Sep 18, 2019
Karen Chiang is the COO and VP of Business Development at TeamFit. View her skill profile. Top image: The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership by Franklin Covey   Last week, our Customer Success Manager, Brent Ross and I had...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Aug 26, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Top image: Heroic Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 – by Frédéric Chopin found on Reddit. This summer, I took a train across Poland, and...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Aug 2, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Top image: Forum Gdańsk, photo by Gregory Ronczewski   It is called white space (whitespace), a breathing room, or negative space. There are many terms...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jul 28, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Top image: The pier in the winter, Sopot, Poland. Photo by: Andrzej Otrębski   I grew up a few hundred meters from a white sandy...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jul 22, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile   Have you ever wondered what your career would look like if—during this crucial meeting, a few years back—you said “yes” to the offer that...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jul 15, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile   “It was a perfect day. I was going about my business like yesterday and the day before. It was great. I did not run...
by Steven Forth |
Jul 8, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   A job architecture without a competency model is an empty shell. Job architectures are getting more attention lately, as more and more companies are asking if their current organizational models...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jul 2, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   Yesterday, I found a copy of The Applied Arts 2019 Design Annual in the mailbox. Walking home, I thought how different...
by Steven Forth |
Jun 26, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Is empathy a skill? Is it something we can learn or cultivate? Empathy is cropping up more and more often as a critical skill. In the design thinking world,...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jun 24, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   con·nect, verb, “bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established; join together so as to...
by Steven Forth |
May 29, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   The grounds for competition are changing, with skills coming to the forefront. The strategy consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is doing some important work to help us understand...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
May 10, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   Last week a new book appeared on my desk. My wife bought it at Knick Knack Nook store on Bowen for...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Apr 1, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top Image: Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo along with Giotto’s Campanile, Florence, Italy   In 1508, Pope...
by Steven Forth |
Mar 29, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Competency models are a powerful way to organize jobs, roles and skills. They can be used as a lens to get insights into the skills in an organization (or...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Mar 5, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top Image: Rynek Główny 13, Pasaż 13, Kraków, Poland. Photo credits: Gregory Ronczewski   Leonardo da Vinci died on May 2, 1519....
by Steven Forth |
Feb 19, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   TeamFit’s goal is to help individuals, teams and organizations to understand and then reach their full potential. What do we mean by ‘potential’ and can it be measured. This...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Feb 14, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top Image: The Collegium Maius, the oldest building in the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland), dating back to 14th century. Photo credits: Gregory...
by Steven Forth |
Feb 12, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Back in January, I had an interesting conversation with a product leader at one of the top people intelligence software companies. People intelligence (also known as people data and...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jan 28, 2019
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   Carlo Rovelli in his book Reality is not what it seems takes the reader to the ancient times and writes “…...
by Steven Forth |
Jan 16, 2019
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Skill and competency management lives in the context of the performance improvement cycle. This is a model we developed for one of our customers that wanted to see how...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Dec 20, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: The situation has changed, part of an exhibition at the National Museum in Kraków, Poland. Photo: Gregory Ronczewski   Aristotle...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Dec 11, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   Successful interaction is based on dialogue between—on one side, the user and the information that is entered into the system, and—on...
by Steven Forth |
Dec 3, 2018
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   We all use models to help us understand and act in the world. For people working in the fields of people operations, human resources and learning development, the most...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Nov 22, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   It is November, and it means that the roof and the gutters on my house need to be cleaned before the...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Nov 13, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Alicia Vikander and Sonoya Mizuno in Ex Machina (2014)   Last week I was invited to a meeting organized by Ibbaka—a...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Oct 18, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   I was sitting on the ferry the other day. The North Shore mountains were slowly getting closer. At first, it was...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Oct 4, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   We spend quite a bit of time looking at the best team composition using skills, behaviours and talents to optimize project...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Sep 26, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: The Lascaux Cave, Vezere Valley, France.   “To be a master of metaphor,” Aristotle wrote in his Poetics, “is the...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Sep 11, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: James Joyce statue in Trieste, the city where Joyce spent more than 15 years. The statue is the work of...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Sep 4, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile on TeamFit   Summer is over, or at least it feels that way. It’s the time to return to daily routines and focus on work....
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Aug 6, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Giewont Mountain (1,895 metres high). There is a 15 m tall steel cross erected in 1901 on the top of...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jul 30, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   I love Christmas. Some of my fondest memories are connected to Christmas Eve, and of course, the gifts that “magically” appeared...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jul 16, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   “The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other, making...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jul 8, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Antiparos island, Cyclades, Greece. Photo by: Lemonakis Antonis   “Few men who come to islands leave them; they grow grey...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jun 28, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: ICOM Amateur Base Station IC-7700 HF/50MHz Transceiver    In Japanese aesthetics, there is something called wabi-sabi. It is sometimes described...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jun 21, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   “To wear different hats” is a pretty common expression. It means you have several different jobs or roles. There is another...
by Lee Iverson |
Jun 14, 2018
Lee Iverson is the CTO at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit.     Competency models are designed to describe what is required to perform a particular job or role within an organization. HR departments often take...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jun 12, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   “According to a legend, ancestors of today’s Oromo people in a region of Kaffa in Ethiopia were believed to have been...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jun 7, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: The Auxiliary Territorial Service in the United Kingdom 1939 – 1945. ATS officers-in-training man a searchlight in Western Command, 28...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
May 31, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: yes, you are right – it’s a Roasted Pork Shoulder.   “Skills determine if you can do something, whereas talents...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
May 21, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Self-Portrait, Vincent van Gogh, 1889, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.   At the end of his book, Brandwashed, Martin Lindstrom writes: “In...
by Steven Forth |
May 14, 2018
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   There is a subtle dance between skills and learning. We learn to develop new skills. Learning itself is a type of skill. The use of a skill is one...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
May 11, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   “Creativity isn’t solely the domain of traditional artistic fields” – writes Tim Brown (CEO of the iconic firm IDEO) in an...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
May 7, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Airbus A350 XWB prototype 003 at Singapore Airshow, February 11, 2014, photo by Thor Jorgen Udvang   “Past performance is...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
May 2, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: A silver and a black Tesla Semi in Rocklin, California   A PWC 2017 Report states that by the year 2030, 30...
by Steven Forth |
Apr 30, 2018
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile.   Many people think of their careers as a series of roles. We get a job, build skills, and then parlay those skills into a new role; hopefully, one with...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Apr 26, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   It is hard to think about skills without trying to imagine a role where the skills will be applied, at least in my...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Apr 19, 2018
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit   Last summer, I was looking for a theme that would capture the essence of TeamFit, and at the same time, change the way...