[OSList] Skills inventory

Michael Herman michael at michaelherman.com
Thu Mar 7 08:50:40 PST 2013


hey hey ashley,

in the emery and trist model for participative work redesign, one of the
modules was skills identification.  it went a bit like harrison describes,
with room to be more rigorous, if you like.

the context for PD working sessions was that some defined "piece of work"
was to be redesigned, structure, process, skills and the individual
experience of it.  so there was a known piece of work that provided the
"skills needed" side of harrison's equation.

within that context, participants were asked to create on the wall a list
of all of the skills needed.  you could tweak this to be all the skills
anyone thought were needed or that they had to offer to the work.  then,
across the wall, everyone's name was added to make a top row of column
headings.  in the grid, everyone filled in a 0-1-2 rating for their skill
level, 0 was none, 1 was skilled, 2 was skilled enough to teach.

the first part of the work in the skills module of the process was to do
this inventory work.  then, after the redesigning, the group was invited to
return to the grid and see if they had enough of various skills to make the
new structures/processes work, to populate the new system, so to speak.
 any gaps were either formal training needs or indicators to participants
where they could acquire new skills and make new/needed contributions --
could see who might be their teachers/mentors in that learning.

m


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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Jaime Pedreros <jpedrerosf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ashley and colleagues,
>
> After reading the excellent contributions that were made, I am afraid
> whether appreciative inquiry could help, mainly at the discover stage.
> Find out more at: appreciativeinquiry.case.edu.
>
> Warm regards from again rainy La Paz
>
> Jaime
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