Training is teaching, or developing in oneself or others, any skills and knowledge or fitness that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one’s capability, capacity, productivity and performance.
Topic: It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to hoover it. What can improv and performing comedy tell us about learning and collaboration? After discovering several contacts in common, JP and Benjamin are joined by the Public Service Transformation Academy’s Paul Conneely to talk insights from his past forays into improv and comedy and their applicability to the…
The date is November 19th, 1863. A crisp autumn day in the fields of southern Pennsylvania in a little farm-town called Gettysburg. Just four months earlier, the fierce battle of Gettysburg raged there as the Union and Confederate forces clashed in what mark the decisive high-water mark of the Confederate efforts to separate from the…
The founder of the OpEx Society, Joseph Paris, is an internationally renowned public speaker, and speaking is his Gemba, (a Japanese word that means “the real place”)… Keynote sessions that Joseph Paris include, and are not limited to; Lessons from Mt. Stupid Why do Lean / Continuous Improvement Programs fail to achieve their potential? What…
In my article, “Build Organizational Capacity and Capability – For Free”, I listed several root-causes for training and education programs reaching a “stall speed” and a detailed approach for avoiding it. Among the root-causes listed were; time, expense, work/learning balance, scalability, retention rate, and atrophy. But there is considerable risk to the program even prior…
I was coaching one of the national oil companies in the Middle East, offering mentorship to the director of their operational excellence program. He was frustrated because he had invested considerable funds building a team of sixty Lean Six Sigma Black Belts over a nine-month period, and they had not yet worked on—much less completed—any…
ByTED
As Bob Dylan once said, “The times they are a’ changin’. This interesting TED talk by Courtney Martin shows exactly how this statement rings true in the light of the American dream. She reveals how history itself is being turned on its head and simultaneously provides some room for comfort concerning the fact that most American parents…
