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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 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 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 |
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 |
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 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 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 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 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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Mar 29, 2018
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Mar 19, 2018
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,...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Mar 12, 2018
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Feb 26, 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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jan 31, 2018
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jan 22, 2018
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....
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Jan 9, 2018
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Dec 15, 2017
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Dec 11, 2017
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Dec 4, 2017
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....
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Nov 9, 2017
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Oct 30, 2017
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Oct 19, 2017
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.”...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Oct 12, 2017
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,...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Oct 3, 2017
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,...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Sep 7, 2017
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Aug 28, 2017
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Aug 21, 2017
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...
by Gregory Ronczewski |
Aug 2, 2017
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...
by Steven Forth |
Jul 24, 2017
More and more companies are investigating skill management platforms. Virtually any company that relies on the skills of its people to deliver services, develop innovations and create value for its customers needs to be able to answer critical business...
by Steven Forth |
May 22, 2017
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...
by Steven Forth |
Mar 13, 2017
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...
by Steven Forth |
Mar 6, 2017
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?...
by Steven Forth |
Feb 27, 2017
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...
by Steven Forth |
Feb 12, 2017
Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen says, but it is doing so by embedding itself into things and then connecting them into larger systems. The handle for this massive trend is the Internet of Things or...
by Steven Forth |
Feb 7, 2017
“The future is here, it is just not evenly distributed.” William Gibson   Governments are preparing a massive renewal of infrastructure. In Canada, the government plans to stimulate the economy with a $125 billion infrastructure fund. In the United...
by Steven Forth |
Feb 2, 2017
Skill profiles are the new calling card. They are how we introduce ourselves to people and show what we can do. Building a great skill profile is part of the day-to-day work of all knowledge workers. So how do...
by Karen Chiang |
Jan 31, 2017
Your skill profile is as unique as you are, but unlike your fingerprints, your profile adapts with experience and you can intervene to shape these changes. Skills are the new currency of work. This is especially in the professional...
by Steven Forth |
Jan 25, 2017
Over the past decade, HR in professional services has become increasingly complex. There is a need for new tools that give deeper insight into people’s real skills and how they are being applied on projects. The payback for HR...
by Steven Forth |
Jan 22, 2017
Please take the Design Thinking Skills and Applications Survey – Share Your Insights How do you build a new skill set? That question is coming up a lot lately, in part because it is the beginning of the year...
by Steven Forth |
Jan 19, 2017
Talent Management looks at you from the outside while Skills Management is looking at you from the inside out. TeamFit is what connects the two. Chuck Hamilton   2017 is shaping up to be the year of ‘skills.’ Everywhere...
by Steven Forth |
Jan 9, 2017
It is the beginning of the year and many of us are finalizing our capabilities development plans for 2017. What questions should we be asking to test and inform these plans? These will differ on the organization, team and...
by Karen Chiang |
Dec 5, 2016
What does this mean for your professional services firm and more important for yourself as an individual? Dan Pink introduced the case that mastery, autonomy and purpose are the key drivers for business performance. What does this mean for...
by Steven Forth |
Dec 1, 2016
At TeamFit, we regularly survey different industries on skill trends and look at our own platform to see what skills are getting the most use. One of the skills that has been trending over the past five years is...
by Steven Forth |
Mar 28, 2016
We all talk about big data these days. Never before have we had access to so much data from so many sources. In TeamFit’s world, we are bringing in data from many, many different systems and then blending this...
by Amar Dhaliwal |
Mar 18, 2016
We are doing a deep dive on how people are measuring project success. Before reading on, it would be great if you could take our short survey! Thank you. Predicting Project Success As we got out and talked to...
by Steven Forth |
Mar 9, 2016
We only get better by measuring our performance. We all know this. Top athletes practice it. The best professionals take time for reflection. Business teams track KPIs. So why doesn’t our team building and project management software platforms do this?...
by Amar Dhaliwal |
Feb 29, 2016
I enjoyed reading Josh Bersin’s predictions for 2016. As he says, we are in a bold new world where everything in the area of talent and HR is changing or being fundamentally disrupted. Josh’s research is always top notch...
by Steven Forth |
Feb 22, 2016
Every team changes over time. Some teams just keep on getting better. Some shoot up rapidly only to crash and crater out. Others take a long time to find their footing but once they do they flourish. The model...
by Karen Chiang |
Feb 16, 2016
I am a big fan of Roger Martin’s cascading choices. A must-know for anyone involved in driving business growth. The choices cascade from an organization’s aspirations, to Where to Play and How to Win and then asks what Capabilities...
by Steven Forth |
Dec 8, 2015
Entering the holiday season, we are looking back on what we have learned over the past year at TeamFit. One of the most important is the role of trust in consulting, success, team performance and building a valued consulting...
by Steven Forth |
Nov 23, 2015
TeamFit provides economic value by making projects more successful. A lot of good things flow from project success. Stronger customer relationships are the most important and have the biggest long-term economic impact. With strong customer relationships come more repeat...