Don’t de-motivate, isolate or overwhelm an enthusiastic, hard-working and ambitious employee as soon as they walk through the door. Create an induction that reflects what your organisation is all about and makes your new starters tell their family and friends how great their new job is. Your new employee’s induction can make or b…
Read more“Never bring the problem-solving stage into the decision-making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution”. -Robert H. Schuller An easy learning and development trap to fall into is rushing into a solution as soon as a problem is detected. Often this can lead to a solution that is not …
Read moreThis is the final post for the blog series on ‘Systems Thinking’. In this blog we will explore the level of thinking called ‘Mental Model’. As you can see in the ‘Iceberg Model’ below, this stage is situated at the bottom of the pyramid. We are now looking at a form of thinking that is completely below the surface. Delving t…
Read moreApproaching your organisational problems and learning needs with a ‘Systems Thinking’ mind-set allows you to look at the bigger picture and design relevant and effective solutions (that really work!). So, let’s get started on exploration of the ‘Underlying Systematic Structure’ . This stage delves deeper than the previous blogs…
Read moreThis blog will explore part two of ‘Systems Thinking’ using ‘The Iceberg Model’ . If you missed the introduction blog on this topic, I suggest you check it out here. It will be good for you to catch up on the information and the topic is well worth the read! The introduction blog discusses an overview of ‘Systems Thinking’…
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