Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Copyrights © Wojtek Lis, Southwest Poland On April 16, during Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, architect Carlo Ratti (CRA International...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top Image: Hōryū-ji (Temple of the Flourishing Law), The Chūmon (Inner Gate), Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Upon his return from Japan, Steven Forth...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit There are many definitions of what scale means. A scale is “a relative size of individual elements compared to each other and a...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Hotel “Pod Orlem” (The Eagle) in Bydgoszcz, around 1910, fotopolska.eu I remember well my first real job. I felt so misplaced,...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: East and North faces of Matterhorn. Photo: Zacharie Grossen Vision is the most powerful of all our senses. Over 80 percent...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Top image: Cactus Blossoms, the Valley of Fire, Nevada In early April, a new HR conference is kicking off in Las Vegas. This is HR Transform 2018...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi in 8½ directed by Federico Fellini. One of the first things we learn at any school...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Conversations about our skills are one way we come to understand each other. Face-to-face conversations are important, but in a modern distributed workplace our collaboration tools are equally important....
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top Image: Hitchcock Birds by Banksy When Emotional Branding by Marc Gobé went on sale in 2001, it was described by Design Management...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Bob Feller, the legendary Cleveland Indians pitcher, said this once about his fastball “You can’t hit what you can’t see.” It captures well...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. We have had more than 100 responses to the Skill and Expertise Management 2018 survey and are starting to see some interesting results. We are sharing these now and...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top Photo: Wendy Holdener of Switzerland competes during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women’s Slalom, Snow Queen Trophy 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia....
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit The above photograph was taken on my last trip to Poland. I was walking alone along the beach heading towards a restaurant where...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. How will your work change in 2018? This will depend a lot on where your organizations sits on the three critical axes of change that will reshape...
Top image: Stanisław Horno-Popławski Michelangelo, granite, 1980, National Museum of Art, Gdańsk, Poland A few weeks ago I wrote how David Schacter, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University describes neural networks in our brain and the connection...
Quote “form follows function” is often connected to the 20-century modernist movement. Names like Walter Gropius or Mies van der Rohe comes to mind, but it was Louis Sullivan, the American architect who said this. Frank Lloyd Wright, who...
In the world of design or art for that matter, it is said that every decision you make matters. For a designer, the orientation of the document, size of margins, number of columns or placement of illustrations is critical....
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Once upon a time neuroscientists believed that our memories are stored inside the brain in a very well organized “engrams,” each located in...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top photo published with the permission from Laughing Stock Vineyards. The main character in Borges’ Funes the Memorious is endowed with the ability to...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit In one of his posts on LinkedIn, Luke Wroblewski, Product Director at Google, shared a graphic showing that 21% of Millennials (age 18 to...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit According to Wikipedia “Collaboration is a purposeful relationship in which all parties strategically choose to cooperate in order to achieve shared or overlapping objectives.”...
Steven Forth is a co-founder of TeamFit. See his TeamFit skill map here. I spent the week of October 9th in Las Vegas for the HR Technology Conference. It was a great event. Almost 500 vendors and several thousand people gathered to...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit In a scientific manifesto titled, Novum Organum Scientiarum, (‘New Instrument of Science‘) published in 1620, Francis Bacon wrote that “knowledge is power.” It seems obvious today,...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit One of the most intriguing aspects of the Mathematical Theory of Communication is the fact that the more information is added to the message,...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Google’s web crawler began exploring the web in March 1996. To convert the backlink data that it gathered for a given web page...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – see his profile on TeamFit When we hear about William Thompson, better known and remembered as Lord Kelvin, absolute temperature and laws of thermodynamics comes to mind. In 1876...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – see his profile on TeamFit The Olympus OM40 was my first “real” camera. I carried it everywhere. It was perfect. Soon I started to experiment with all the settings. Shutter...
TeamFit supports the Design Thinking Group on LinkedIn. We do this as part of our commitment to global skill development in areas that can transform people’s careers, companies and entire economies. In August we began a simple survey that...
Steven Forth is a co-founder of TeamFit. See his TeamFit skill map here. See also The ROI on Skill and Expertise Management Part 2: Utilization and The ROI on Skill and Expertise Management Part 3: Engagement and Retention. Investing in skill and expertise management...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform Profiling (prəʊfʌɪlɪŋ / noun) – the recording and analysis of a person’s psychological and behavioural characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to...
‘Empathy’ is a theme that comes up frequently these days. It is seen as one of the critical skills for design thinking (based on the recent Design Thinking Skills and Applications survey, results to be published in September). Several...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform A Russian nesting doll, or “matryoshka” is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. When I think about a skill I often wonder: is...
How does your company win projects? If you are like most companies, relationships play a big role. Somebody knows someone who has worked together on something and had a good experience. Relationships are important. And in the absence of...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform When someone asks “what do you do”, the name of your job role or project role allows you to quickly answer this question. There is no need to dive into...
When interviewing software engineers, I often ask ‘what is the most important skill for software engineering?’ I am not sure what answer I expected to get before I started to ask this question. Maybe something around mathematics or logic....
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform People often have a hard time answering questions about their skills. Can you name a few skills that you used on a project? It is surprisingly hard. Over the...
Skill management is new to many companies. They may have a vestigial list of skills in their talent management or learning management system. More likely they are managing skills in spreadsheets or as a collection of résumés – irregularly...
Many professional services companies are focused on optimizing the utilization ratio. They are focused on making sure that all billable staff are at work on customer projects at least 70% of the time (the actual target varies from company...
We are all going to have to learn new skills, this year, next year and every year for the rest of our working life, learn new skills and find new ways to apply old skills. One could even say...
When we first got started with TeamFit we began with the notion of teams, and the idea that modern companies are best understood as teams of teams. Most people work on multiple teams at any one time and the...
In a recent conversation with a major consulting company, we were asked about the relationship between skills and expertise. Their internal practices focus on expertise development rather than ‘raw skill’ and they wanted to know how we connect these...
Over the past year TeamFit has developed a way to look into a company from the outside and see what skills may be present and how they are being applied. This approach is an extension of our skill extraction...
A general consensus has emerged that most learning is the result of work and not training interventions. The term 702010 has become popular recently to describe the belief that 70% of learning comes from working on the job, 20%...
There is a lot fear about the future of work. Will there be enough work to go around? Will these be high quality employment opportunities, low quality service jobs, or tasks done in the gig economy? What kind of...
David Vance had a provocative piece in Chief Learning Officer in April, 2017. He starts by asking “How many of you are reskilling your employees?” It is a good question. He has an answer that challenges what he sees...
Digital transformation is a popular theme these days. The major consulting firms all of digital transformation practices and we have been to several digital transformation (or digital innovation) summits over the past few months. Everyone from old school banks...
Back in the 1960s US fighter pilot John Boyd was known as ’40 second Boyd’ from his standing bet that starting from a position of disadvantage he could get himself into a winning position in 40 seconds or less. It...
Mergers & Acquisitions are an important part of many business strategies. Organic growth can be supplemented by buying companies and integrating operations. The benefits of M&A include: a diversification/differentiation of offerings economic scaling and capacity growth expanded market share...
One of the services TeamFit delivers using its skill management platform is Skill Insights. There are a number of specific business cases, but the most common is the following question. “Do we have the skills we need to achieve...
Design Thinking has been a topic of growing interest to businesses for the past decade. Influential books such as Change by Design by Tim Brown of IDEO in 2009 and The Design of Business by then Rotman School of...
A conversation between Brian Conlin and Steven Forth The architectural, engineering and consulting (A/E/C) sector is facing a time of unparalleled challenge and opportunity. There is a growing consensus that the world needs massive investments in infrastructure and it...
Skills are being described as the new currency of business. Our skills are how represent ourselves, find jobs, get chosen for projects and find people to work with. LinkedIn lets you identify up to 50 skills but modern skill...
TeamFit is a skill management platform for professional services companies. We spend a lot of time speaking with the leadership of different companies to understand their strategies and the business pressures they are under. A surprising number of these...
Many large or rapidly growing companies have a person responsible for talent acquisition. Aging workforces, changing skill requirements, competition for talent are all driving interest in talent acquisition. But is talent acquisition the most important way to build capabilities?...
Human resources management generates a lot of records and is supported by process after process. Sometimes we lose sight of the people in all of the data and processes. Collecting reliable records is a critical part of human resources...
“Differentiate for your clients, not from your competitors” Understanding strategic differentiation is critical to the leaders of professional services companies. In a hyper-competitive world, companies without differentiation quickly find themselves pushed down into commoditized roles where it is hard...