Author Archives: trdev

Jan 08

Team Building: Cutting it Short – What’s up with That?

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With increasing frequency, there is pressure to cut team building short on the last day. Suddenly there is pressure to wrap things up shortly, end the session early to let people go back to the resort early or have more free time for shopping. Cutting short the debiefing will guarantee that the analytical learners never have an opportunity to tie up loose ends. I have some ideas about why this is taking place but I want to hear from blog visitors first. Any comments that would shed light on some of these dynamics and propose solutions would be great.

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Jan 07

Team Building: Tailoring Business Simulations

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Team building that isn’t customized for your business is likely to end up being just another entertaining corporate event. There is a place for corporate events but social activities are never a replacement for reall team building. Companies can improve the impact of team building with relevant, customized projects.

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Jan 07

Is Decision-Making a Dying Senior Leadership Competency?

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Is decision-making a dying art and a disappearing leadership competency? I believe that it is. It shows up in many ways. Scenario: A Canadian company sends out a bid for a major equipment acquisition. The process drags on for months. Eventually, they decide to stick with what they have. Why do companies seem to have so much difficulty making decisions these days? Why do some CEOs put their teams and suppliers through weeks of work that is then scrapped? Is decision-making a dying leadership competency? Is so why and what can be done about it? What is behind some of the poor judgement that is showing up in executive suites? Perspectives from CEOs, suppliers and consultants would be greatly appreciated.

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Jan 07

End Of Year Gifts

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In the spirit of Xmas, here are three gifts I’d like to pass onto you. I have received so much value from each of these three resources during the year, I feel compelled to share them with you too (the first two are free): Seth Godin’s Blog – Seth is a brilliant thinker. I receive

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May 05

Attempts to sabotage creating a training/development community of practice

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Earlier today I announced the creation of a twitter hashtag, #trdev so people wanting to create a training and development community of practice on twitter could find each other, and interact. We have additional plans to make this work. However it will NOT work if the tag is used for NON-RELATED tweets.

Within 3 hrs. of announcing the tag, providing instructions for use, etc, Doug Constant @onpointcoaching started spamming the tag with messages of various types NONE of which pertain at all to the topic. You can see for yourself what he is doing by doing a search within twitter for #trdev, and you can see what appears to be a deliberate attempt to prevent you and I from creating this community.

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May 04

Twitter Hashtags for training and development

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First a quick introduction. I’m Pat Stark, and I do some collaborative work with Robert Bacal on the web. You’ll see me posting here and there, particularly when Robert is away or otherwise engaged. Robert asked me to do some work on using a hashtag so people interested in training and development, and using twitter, could find each other, and see each other’s posts.

A hash tag is a fancy term for a short “tag” that you put in your tweets, that identifies its content, and can be found using the twitter search function. It begins with a number sign # and is followed by a short set of letters.

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