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Author: Gary G. Wise

“Status Quomentum” – A Hidden Core Performance Restrainer

October 15, 2021
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| Categories: A Different Mission, Change Leadership, Point of Work Assessment, Transformational Change
Point-of-Work Dynamics

Yes, I have just coined a new phrase to highlight a common affliction within organizations often found lurking behind “resistance to change.” What parts of the organization? All of them actually, but...the most capable entity in position to overcome status quomentum is Learning and Development (L&D)...or it should be. In fact, L&D has unfortunately played the role of perpetuating the deeply embedded myth driving status quomentum – Training Drives Performance. Because of that myth our operational stakeholders look to L&D (referring to us as the Training Department) for resolutions to…

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POINT-of-WORK: Ground Zero for Workforce Transformation

October 13, 2021
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| Categories: AGILE, Discovery & Consulting, Point of Work Assessment, Transformational Change
Point-of-Work Dynamics

Considering most businesses have a distributed WFH workforce there are multiple transformations that must take place ranging from Cultural/Environmental changes to People/Capabilities; Workflows/Processes; Resources/Information; Systems/Technology; Impact/Analytics; and most importantly, Change Leadership challenges. Easy to see that we face a significant journey to adopt and sustain effective workforce transformation. My question is simple – Where do we begin? (more…)

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POINT-OF-WORK:  An Agile Solutioning Methodology – DRIVER  

October 10, 2021
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| Categories: Discovery & Consulting, DRIVER, Five Moments of Need, Learning Performance Ecosystem, Moment of Need, Point of Work Assessment
Driver

Point-of-Work (PoW) is where measurable business outcomes are generated...or they are lost…or if not lost...compromised. I am an advocate that, at the core, Workforce Transformation has a direct line to optimization of sustained productivity and profitability, and these outcomes require measurable performance outcomes manifesting at Point-of-Work That single fact seems straight-forward to this camper and that if we truly seek positive business outcomes as our endgame, shouldn't we focus our discovery and solution designs there first? It only took me 20 years to shift my thinking…adopt a new performance DRIVER…and…

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Learning Culture: Is a Product of Convergence

September 27, 2021
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| Categories: 70:20:10, Continuous Learning, Moment of Need, point of work, Rants & Ramblings, Workforce Capability

Updated on August 23, 2022 because the more things change the more they stay the same. Yeah, this might be rant-like and I hate to disappoint, so apologies upfront. Are there "performance components" essential to establishment of a sustainable, thriving Learning Culture? You bet there are! Performance by whom? By L&D? From senior leadership? Road warrior trainers? ID/DEV team members? Operational stakeholders? HR/OD specialists? Individual Performers? Ask ten people to define a Learning Culture and expect ten answers, and they will all likely reflect a truth. That 'truth" will be…

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POINT-OF-WORK Podcast with David James – 1-6-2020

July 25, 2020
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| Categories: Continuous Learning

I was honored to kick off 2020 with David James. This post is a replay of the 48 minute podcast. With the recent frequency of posts on the Point-of-Work topic, the podcast may help fill in the gaps. As always, David James did a superb job of interviewing...I just tried to keep up. It must have worked out pretty well as the number of downloads hit a new high. Here’s the link to the podcast! https://omny.fm/shows/the-learning-development-podcast/tldp-33

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POINT-OF-WORK: Office of Workforce Capability (OWC)?

July 19, 2020
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| Categories: A Different Mission, Change Leadership, Point of Work Assessment

Is it time to create an organizational entity scoped and chartered to ensure sustained workforce capability? Is it time to enable performance IN Workflows at Moments of Need found at Point-of-Work? Ask the operational stakeholders if they are after knowledge...or the capability to execute at Point-of-Work to add measurable value to the bottom line. They want results. Their challenge is the blind spot we've created by selling the idea that Training drives Performance...so that's what is typically requested. Training alone is NOT going to deliver the mail. Here’s a disruptive…

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POINT-OF-WORK: Translate Training Activity to Productivity Impact

July 19, 2020
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| Categories: Discovery & Consulting, Point of Work Assessment

Downsized three times in seven years. Why? Because we could not show bottom line value creation and productivity impact. Why? Because Point-of-Work was not assessed to determine what was restraining performance. In other words, no performance benchmarks were established at current state. Instead, solutions were automagically defaulted to training-based and focused on skill profiles, learning objectives, and competencies. Not wrong...just not enough. (more…)

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POINT-OF-WORK: CEO for a Day

July 19, 2020
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| Categories: Accelerated Productivity, Discovery & Consulting, Point of Work Assessment, Sustained Capability

If I had the opportunity to be CEO for a day, I’d blow the doors off the existing Learning/Training paradigm and shift my CLO out from under the HR umbrella or create a role and align them as a direct report...with the title of Chief Capability Officer (CCO). Place the CCO over the Office of Workforce Capability (OWC) staffed with a hit squad of Performance Consultants working directly with Operational stakeholders. Start small - then scale! (more…)

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POINT-OF-WORK: Strategic Approach to Sustaining Tactical Performance Success

April 19, 2020
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| Categories: Point of Work Assessment, Workforce Capability

For the purposes of this post, the key words in this title are “Performance Success”. Certainly a strategic approach needs well-developed objectives accompanied by cohesive and flexible tactical plans to execute effectively. There are four CHANGE stages to this mission: Deployment – GoLive of whatever is going live…new tech, process, product, policy, etc. Implementation – Moment of Need Support of Post-GoLive to ensure we StayLive Adoption - Routinization of Workflow applications to ensure we OptimizeLive Sustainment - Established change & maintenance protocols to ensure RetainLive A successful and sustainable strategic…

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POINT-OF-WORK ASSESSMENT: Perceptions Vs. Realities

March 15, 2020
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| Categories: Continuous Learning

After completing my most recent workshop, another round of fine-tuning has begun; in fact, I suspect each and every workshop will spawn the same reaction. I say this because every organization has a unique mix of Perceptions and Realities that frame restrainers that limit productivity and performance results within their learning performance ecosystems. That makes every workshop as unique as the gaps between Perceptions and Realities. Those gaps often represent blind spots in solution design decisions that traditionally default to Training. What if Training is not the optimal solution? What…

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