by RoelfW | Mar 19, 2020 | cornavirus, Covid 19, Pandemic, Social Leadership
You thought that reality had hit you when you were asked to stay at home in face of COVID 19. Unfortunately, Real reality is finally rearing its ugly head. Wide spread social disruption in the face of this virus will bring with it unimaginable levels of global human...
by RoelfW | Mar 17, 2020 | cornavirus, Covid 19, Pandemic, Social Leadership, Uncategorized
Reflecting on 2 weeks of reading COVID 19 news articles on the Internet The last week has seen a lot of turbulence in Canada and the United States. But no matter what your point of view, reality has set in. Face to face social interaction is slowly but surely shutting...
by RoelfW | Mar 16, 2020 | cornavirus, Covid 19, Pandemic, Social Leadership
Global supply chains are now so interlocked across national boundaries that widespread negative social events in Tier 1 and Tier 2 source good manufacturing countries have dramatic impact across the globe. Decades of short-term cost reduction / profit maximization in...
by RoelfW | Mar 13, 2020 | cornavirus, Covid 19, Pandemic, Social Leadership, Uncategorized
Yesterday, I posted on Linked In, essentially stating that every one is responding instinctively at some level to the coronavirus threat. We are genetically wired to response in-the-moment in a flight / fight / freeze way to a perceived thread. Of course, our first...
by RoelfW | Mar 12, 2020 | cornavirus, Uncategorized
What happened? How could the President of the United States and the very bright people who advise have gotten it so wrong? Or did they? Could it be that they are caught up in the same psychological dynamics as the rest of us? Could it be that the are simply responding...
by RoelfW | Jun 4, 2019 | Training Architecture Series
Despite what many people seem to thing, managers are made not born. In the absence of a managerial development program, organizations get managers who are developed in an very informal way. Some of what they do comes from the often ‘distance from reality’...
by RoelfW | Jun 3, 2019 | Training Architecture Series
The Managerial Skill Framework Video Blog- Part 1 Managing others is not a simple thing to learn. Yet many people move into management jobs without a sense of what skills they need to be effective. Part 1 of The Managerial Skill Frameworks explains how The Managerial...
by RoelfW | May 22, 2019 | Training Architecture Series
Want to increase the effectiveness of your workplace training programs? Take steps to ensure that each major piece of content is presented in a way that matches one of the 4 learning styles in Kolb’s model. You can’t control who comes to a training...
by RoelfW | May 13, 2019 | Training Architecture Series
Different work place situations require different levels of skill. Understanding this is critical for those who invest in training, either as individuals, or as organizational leaders investing in staff development. Watch the video...
by RoelfW | May 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
If a work place skill combines a value with a capability, a work place capability involves 3 kinds of...