Competence

Every year, organisations pour hundreds of billions of dollars into leadership development programs. Yet workplace performance continues to stagnate. Employee engagement remains dangerously low, and executives still struggle to make sound decisions…

Most organisations invest in training, yet struggle to prove whether any of it actually sticks. Employees complete courses, tick boxes, and move on, but the real question remains unanswered: can they actually…

Something is broken at the heart of modern organizations, and the data makes it impossible to ignore. Companies are spending more than ever on training programs, leadership development, and talent acquisition, yet…

The rules governing professional excellence have quietly shifted beneath our feet, and most organisations haven’t noticed yet. Competence, once a relatively stable benchmark defined by credentials, technical knowledge, and measurable outputs, has…

The competence crisis is a Story Everyone Recognises but No One Says Out Loud It starts the same way it always does. A meeting invite lands in your calendar. No real agenda.…

Fake it till you make it !!! This was never a term used when I was job hunting. In the 2000s when I left the military and was looking for my next…

Previous articles I have written can come back to Imposter syndrome. My article on mental health looked at men’s stubbornness when it comes to admission of needing help. Then later we looked…

Using Instructional design to improve learning environments is a concept slowly becoming a requirement in education and industry. Although instructional design only recently becoming a phrase more widely used it has been…

There is something slightly absurd about the way many organisations talk about the skills they want from employees. Read almost any senior job advertisement and you will find the same familiar requirements.…