Individual Performance

Contributed by alan on 28th of August 2016 03:47:17 PM

Creating Capability:

Individual Performance

Blog Category:

Understand

Most people don't understand themselves particularly well. This we believe without reservation. So why do we say this???

Contributed by Charlene Castillo on 31st of December 2014 08:40:34 AM

Creating Capability:

Individual Performance

Blog Category:

Process

By Stephanie Garcia

Agiledge

At the beginning of each year, you hear a lot more chatter about getting "organized", getting more done, working smarter, improving personal productivity…. No matter how you express it, the problem typically identified is not getting enough of your work done and in some cases, overcoming burn-out.

Contributed by alan on 13th of November 2014 11:13:54 PM

Creating Capability:

Individual Performance

Keywords:

Paradox

Blog Category:

Understand

Most of us will agree that understanding each other is important, but many can't really describe what you need to understand. Many will cite relationship styles, decision making styles, leadership styles and communication tendencies as key issues. In fact there are quite a number of additional issues that can cause conflict and misunderstanding if not accurately understood. In fact, the worst scenarios occur when people think they understand and they don't (incorrect assumptions).

Contributed by alan on 19th of December 2013 10:21:27 PM

Creating Capability:

Individual Performance

Blog Category:

Process

Statistical thinking is the ability to understand a situation by accurately assessing probabilities, understanding variation and dealing effectively with uncertainty.

I just finished teaching a graduate-level statistics class where the textbook material was the conventional hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and n/z/t/f/chi2 distributions... This is all valuable stuff in assessing samples and providing proof of the validity of your data. Far more valuable, I believe, is the ability to actually think statistically, which actually has very little to do with this.

"The U.S. Department of Labor has estimated the costs to replace an employee to be approximately 1/3 their annual salary; but when you start looking at the impact of hiring the wrong employee and having to replace them, some studies say 2.5 times annual earnings, some 4 times and some even higher." AGILEdge