Watched a video by the Economist on how upward mobility (a person makes more than their parents) is much more difficult now than forty years ago (particularly here in the US). To summarize, the commentary largely focused on placing a larger social-economic pool into flagship universities. While I applaud what some organizations and feeder preparatory… Continue Reading
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Launched Skills Based Approach app for iOS. This version is only an initial release, later ones will include at a minimum the features and functionality of the web and Android apps. The value proposition of the Skills Based Approach app is setting up skill sets daily or weekly (as instances), so learners and workers respond… Continue Reading
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Officially launched Learning Labels Create on iOS accessible in the Apple Play Store. All three of the labels: learning, course, and job labels get created and published from the app. New users are able to signup securely from the app. While the onboarding process is not yet refined, a new user should understand what each… Continue Reading
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My team is on the verge of releasing Learning Labels Create App on IOS in the Apple App Store. The goal is the create, publish and catalog each of the labels – learning, course, and job – natively from the app. There are perceived advantages by using many of the rich features and interfaces on… Continue Reading
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Got to add a mention of a recently granted patent to this timeline of my team’s skills platform (Skills Label, Skills Based Approach and Skills Culture). I thought the patent would open doors. Though as I recently submitted business and research proposals, I continue to face obstacles. Rather than authenticity, I face teams trying to… Continue Reading
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While working through skills, signal them to teammates or coworkers. Reinforces the advantage of working with simultaneous skill sets on a task level and the proposed methodology. Learn more about the Skills Based Approach methodology from the website: http://www.skillsbasedapproach.com . Download the app in Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skillsbasedapproach.skillsbasedapproach
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There is a benefit in presenting your skill set to not only recruiters and potential employers, but also an ‘internal network’ – co-workers and supervisors – and an ‘external network’ – partners and clients. As I talk about presenting a skill set, I want to clarify that there are many ways to present a skill.… Continue Reading
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I wonder how a Skills-Based Approach should affect the way employers pay employees; planning, building and validating of skills have a strong correlation with an employee’s job performance. Should employers consider a skill-based pay system versus the traditional job pay system? Here is a good definition of a skills-based pay system (“SBP”): Skills-based structures link… Continue Reading
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