article thumbnail

Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace.

Dashe & Thomson

If the Pareto Principle holds, then these extraordinary few must be identified and leveraged to ensure a change in behavior occurs, enterprise-wide. Connectors and Salespeople are equally important, but if the Mavens behave as they’re supposed to, a Connector will hear of the change soon and pass it on to a Salesperson.

article thumbnail

Soft landing

E-Learning Provocateur

Wikipedia describes soft skills as “psychosocial”, and I feel this hits the mark closer than most. Unfortunately Wikipedia goes on to declare that hard skills are specific to individual professions, which is demonstrably false. For example, is a hard skill such as data analysis not also a business skill or a power skill?

Metrics 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Recent changes patroller

E-Learning Provocateur

Apologies in advance to the good folk who toil altruistically to mop up Wikipedia for the rest of us. It’s just that I’ve banged heads with a few of your pig-headed colleagues over the years, and I couldn’t resist…

Change 130
article thumbnail

Network Testing for Configuration Changes

Hurix Digital

Netbeez rightly adapts the definition of software testing by Wikipedia to network testing and states that “Network testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Make sure that the configuration changes function as expected.

Network 52
article thumbnail

Becoming a Social Business – Beyond Culture Change

Learnnovators

We have become accustomed to blaming the culture of an organization for the failure of any initiative, and more so when the change calls for redefining and re-imagining how people work and interact. No matter how hard we try to change the culture – and I do believe that leaders and managers are trying – the discourse we use lets us down.

Culture 170
article thumbnail

Trade fair – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jay Cross

Trade fair – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. How will they change? A trade fair ( trade show, trade exhibition or expo) is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products, service, study activities of rivals and examine recent market trends and opportunities.

article thumbnail

Smarter ways to improve the quality of Employee-generated Learning

Challenge to Learn

If something changes in the business or when SMEs gain new knowledge or insights, they can quickly update the content. Wikipedia effect. You need this feedback in order to get what we call the “Wikipedia effect’. The biggest benefit of Employee-generated Learning is that it will help you to keep your content up-to-date.

Quality 233