Teach a Man To Fish

Teach a Man to Fish

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - Chinese Proverb

Sustainability and Teams

Skills and Aptitude  Skills: Things you can do now  Aptitude: Things you are capable of  There are some things you will never do

Understanding Skill Sets

360 Degree Feedback  Method for measuring skills and/or performance  Set objectives  each person feeds back on each other person  each person feeds back on the feedback they received  includes management, subordinates, peers and self  information is shared anonymously

Skills Analysis  Areas and sub-areas  Rate everyone on each area  Create a chart

Skills Analysis PHP Frontend Syntax OOP ZF Stack JS HTML CSS Anna 5 5 4 5 1 2 1 Billy 3 3 3 2 4 4 4 Charles 5 5 5 3 4 3 3 Diane 5 3 4 2 3 5 5 Edward 4 3 2 2 5 5 4 Average 4.4 3.8 3.6 2.8 3.4 3.8 3.4

Skill Gaps

Filling the Gap: Recruitment

Cost = Time + Money Impact = Risk x Cost

The Power of Not Recruiting

Learning

Learning Resources  Feeds/Podcasts  Subscriptions  Training  Consultancy  Events  Study days

Training Budget

Making the Business Case  Spend your investment wisely  Cost Benefit Analysis  Return on Investment  investment we know  return is harder to measure

Types of Return

Conference or General Training

Specific Training or Study

Sharing (The Bonus Multiplier)  Shared gain multiplies the return  ROI is bigger  Better team communication

Team Sharing Strategies  Conference slide karaoke  Link Tuesdays  Shared interest subgroups  Monthly developer lunch

Learning is a Development Process

No Team? Make One!

Leadership

Now You Can Fish

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Teach a Man To Fish

by Lorna Mitchell on Sep 30, 2010

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