Panelists at the IREM Global Summit share best practices for mitigating bias and advancing diversity. Cultivating talent is an industry-wide mission for the property management profession and all of commercial real estate. At the Institute of Real Estate Management’s Global Summit last week in San Francisco, an international panel of rising leaders shared best practices […]
Three Ways Learning Agility Can Help Your Career Growth
We have a guest blog this week about a fascinating topic: Learning agility. Thanks for David Hoff, co-author of Learning Ability-The Key to Leader Potential. Learning agility is finding yourself in a new situation and not knowing what to do – but then figuring it out. Why would that be important? In an organizational context, […]
Optimize Your Recruitment Process by Using Competencies
Recently, we wrote about the five steps to optimize employee development with a competency framework. This 5-step process begins with identifying organizational competencies and determining expected proficiencies by employee position and continues. The next two steps include assessing competencies and aligning the current proficiency with organizational needs and career aspirations. Finally, each employee should track […]
Why Leadership Training Fails
It happens all the time. Senior leaders seek leadership training to strengthen the leadership team. Yet they don’t know exactly what will make their individual leaders better in their roles. Some will base their leadership coaching training programs on the flavor of the month, such as emotional intelligence. They have heard in leadership circles how […]
How to Train Your Staff with a Decreasing Budget
In our last blog, How to Use the 70/20/10 Model to Develop Careers, we discussed the “what”, “when” and “how” of using the 70/20/10 Adult Learning Model for employee development. Now let’s discuss the “why”. Managers face daily decisions to ensure their team gets what’s needed for success. But with budgets getting smaller, it’s hard […]
Center for Human Capital Innovation Supports Carpenter’s Shelter
The Center for Human Capital Innovation (CHCI) team supported the Carpenter’s Shelter on September 10, 2019. As part of their effort to give back, Made With Love Catering also pitched in to feed approximately 30-35 people in support of this community effort. The Carpenter’s Shelter empowers and enables the local homeless population to achieve sustainable […]
Eight Ways to Improve People Processes in Your Organization
People are a critical part of every organization’s balance sheet. Investments related to acquiring, retaining, developing, and inspiring employees are critical to your organization’s success, requiring a thoughtful strategy to build and maintain a productive workforce. CHCI’s talent life cycle, called PRIDALRM, refers to the interrelated strategies that support the most important assets of an […]
How to Use the 70/20/10 Model to Develop Careers
Did you know there is a tool to develop your skills and competencies that costs little to no money? It’s called the 70/20/10 Adult Learning Model (pronounced – seventy, twenty, ten). Before we explain how the 70/20/10 model can help you develop career goals, let’s look at three types of learning strategies: pedagogy, andragogy and […]
Why are employees leaving your organization?
In our daily lives, we use personal biases, intuitions, and gut feelings to make our decisions. And that’s perfectly fine. They serve us well in many ways. However, when it comes to improving work performances, personal biases, intuitions, and gut feelings just don’t cut it. Data can improve your own, your team’s, and your organization’s […]
Optimize Employee Development with a Competency Framework
Employee development is a strategic tool for an organization’s continuing growth, productivity, and ability to retain valuable employees. Using a meaningful competency framework when developing employees will focus employees’ behavior on things that matter most to an organization and help drive success. This competency framework can provide a common way to harmonize, select, and develop […]
