I love bagels and Montreal is fortunate enough to have one of the best place on earth to buy them. Ever since I am a teenager, I develop a passion for finding and using the best tool possible to complete my favorite tasks, and I fond out that there was nothing better than a knife bread to halve a bagel... That is until today, because I couldn't find the knife bread (or perhaps I was too lazy to look for it in the dishwasher!), I decided to use a fish knife and discovered that it was doing an even better job than my usual tool!
It's an obvious lesson, but one worth reminding ourselves. The tools we use to create the most impact in the world are not always the ones we think of. Perhaps, we tend to use the same set of tactics, convinced of their effectiveness and comforted by experts and label validating that these are the best tools to face that particular challenges. There is real value lying under experimenting using unorthodox approaches and tactics to solve problems we usually tackle the same way, time after time.
2 comments:
Waltitude,
When it comes to talent sourcing, development, & management... myself and the companies I've worked for have solved problems/created solutions using customized CRM applications as "the tool."
It seems when you base your problem solving on the person(the talent)as the foundation of the solution...things seem to work out.
Do you have a "go to" tool when it comes to first steps of problem solving when it comes to workforce solutions and the like?
Regards,
Sean Rehder
http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanrehder
Hi Sean, we do have a set of tool to collect, analyze and even identify weaker area when it comes to what I would call "talent pools".
Nevertheless, I find that what most of the organization I have observed lack, are tools that allow for real empathy, meaning real knowledge and connection with the different talent pool they are trying to influence.
I would summarize it by saying that what is critical today and what will make the difference in the years ahead will be "emphatic talent attraction" through less conventional or less used tools (and approaches).
Beyond the CRM applications(and I believe they can have a great impact) an organization can ask itself if there are areas of its identity that are so compelling for its ideal audience, that bringing these people to understand its context will have a bigger and more sustainable impact than the usual tools we can think of.
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