Geani - growing up
Friday, October 14, 2005
About skills, knowledge, attitudes
During the last days I had several interesting discussions about vision, values, and attitudes and generally about what do you look in one person.
Again, like I said in the other writings of mine, maybe for some people all the things I write are clear, long time established or even a little bit childish to discuss. But still for me was an important learning moment when I confirmed my thoughts.
So, it all started from one of the books that I read wrote by Ken Blanchard called in the Romanian version "From purpose to realization". I thought it will be maybe a book about how to manage your time better in order to achieve results, how to have will, and so on. Actually it is a book about vision, values, and mission and how if you live upon them you will for sure have results. I already read all of these things several times; I read Stephen Covey and other self effectiveness books. But the interesting point here was that, on my way to Budapest I started a discussion with somebody about KSAV (Knowledge Skills Attitudes Values). We were discussing about how to select a person for a position - if you will look mainly at his/her skills and knowledge - or you will look as much as possible at attitudes and values also. I know that the last 2 are pretty difficult to test, but nevertheless, I was explaining to this person how important is for me to select people based on them.
The funny thing is that after we finished the conversation with me trying to give as much examples as possible about my values and what do I understand trough attitudes - I found in the book I read the exact definition of those, and the strong opinion about how important is to have such things and base your life on them.
After this very discussion also, when I arrived at the conference in Budapest I had to deliver a training on how to form and manage an OC. Yes...of course it was written there: " you can get knowledge in 1-3 months, skills in 3-6 months...but attitudes in more than 6 months. This means that you should select your OC members taking into account their attitudes - reflected in their behaviors". :)
Yes, for me was an interesting situation to pass trough all these - but good to confirm one again my ways of taking decisions and evaluating myself.
...I would like to write more thoughts, since I am passing trough an interesting period...
I will end with a beautiful quote, in my opinion:
"Nobody can realize great things with minimal effort" - Euripide
Geani - I really feel that I grow up these days...
Again, like I said in the other writings of mine, maybe for some people all the things I write are clear, long time established or even a little bit childish to discuss. But still for me was an important learning moment when I confirmed my thoughts.
So, it all started from one of the books that I read wrote by Ken Blanchard called in the Romanian version "From purpose to realization". I thought it will be maybe a book about how to manage your time better in order to achieve results, how to have will, and so on. Actually it is a book about vision, values, and mission and how if you live upon them you will for sure have results. I already read all of these things several times; I read Stephen Covey and other self effectiveness books. But the interesting point here was that, on my way to Budapest I started a discussion with somebody about KSAV (Knowledge Skills Attitudes Values). We were discussing about how to select a person for a position - if you will look mainly at his/her skills and knowledge - or you will look as much as possible at attitudes and values also. I know that the last 2 are pretty difficult to test, but nevertheless, I was explaining to this person how important is for me to select people based on them.
The funny thing is that after we finished the conversation with me trying to give as much examples as possible about my values and what do I understand trough attitudes - I found in the book I read the exact definition of those, and the strong opinion about how important is to have such things and base your life on them.
After this very discussion also, when I arrived at the conference in Budapest I had to deliver a training on how to form and manage an OC. Yes...of course it was written there: " you can get knowledge in 1-3 months, skills in 3-6 months...but attitudes in more than 6 months. This means that you should select your OC members taking into account their attitudes - reflected in their behaviors". :)
Yes, for me was an interesting situation to pass trough all these - but good to confirm one again my ways of taking decisions and evaluating myself.
...I would like to write more thoughts, since I am passing trough an interesting period...
I will end with a beautiful quote, in my opinion:
"Nobody can realize great things with minimal effort" - Euripide
Geani - I really feel that I grow up these days...
posted by Geani, 11:09 AM
