Strengths of K-ProfessionalWritten by JT Frank Management Centre
With advent of K- economy in globalisation making waves, corporations must now prepare their human capital to be K- professionals in competitive environment. K- professionals are not only just IT savvy alone. For individuals to be innovative and competent K- professionals, they must leverage on eight core competencies of a k-driven and self- directed professional to meet changing needs of K-economy.The eight core competencies are strategic thinking skills, knowledge responsibility, continuous learning, contribution in innovative teams, professional discipline, innovation and creativity, solution focus mindset, personal improvement. These competencies with support of technology will enable a k-professional to achieve sustainable performance and ultimately competitive advantage for their organisation. A structured identification exercise must be conducted to establish two major preferences in thinking - Left- Brained versus Right-Brained thinking. The Left-Brained thinkers tend to be factual and logical while Right-Brained thinkers tend to be intuitive and non-linear in their approach. For a K-professional to be thinking strategically, one must be able to stretch beyond boundary of their preferred thinking mode to achieve desired goals. Thus, whole-brained strategic thinking will enable a K-professional to address personal deficiencies and achieve strong conceptual mindset. A culture of responsibility towards knowledge must be inculcated into their daily challenges of a K-professional. Firstly, K-professionals must constantly support their leaders, colleagues and peer groups with current and specialised knowledge by asking to whom am I accountable to for knowledge I have. Secondly, identifying people who can provide critical and valuable knowledge to assist me in getting things done by asking who is accountable to me for knowledge I need. And thirdly, developing a matrix to import knowledge from multiple sources by asking where knowledge can be acquired. K-professionals must place key emphasis on a habit of continuous learning by constantly pursuing process of unlearning and relearning to exceed needs of a fast changing economy. They can do this by adopting philosophy of "Learning is about working and working is about Learning", and implementing real time action plan to translate learning into practice. As K-professionals, contributing in objective-driven and self-organising innovative teams is critical for success of any K-organisation. Key skills such as self-directed co-ordination and communication will be inevitable to achieve desired team results. This means that a unified focus and ability to crystallise organisational knowledge are necessary to encourage knowledge sharing. Sharing of best practices will encourage culture of innovation and to avoid repeated mistakes thus creating a distinctive differentiation from competitors.
| | Ten Tips To Jump Start Your Business PlanWritten by Dee Power and Brian Hill
1) Rome Wasn't Planned, Funded, and Built in One Day ****************************************************** The process of putting together a coherent business plan will probably take longer that you estimate (an incoherent business plan on other hand can take as little as 20 minutes). Along way you will probably stop and say, "you know, we haven't really thought our strategies out very well, have we?" or "we don't really know our competition as well as we thought we did," and you will take time to hone your strategies and get up to speed on competition before you finish plan and present it.2) Smaller Bites Are More Digestible *************************************** Start plan with an outline. By breaking large task down into smaller components, task will not seem as daunting. A business plan can be viewed simply as answers to a series of questions. 3) Style Points Count, Too. *************************************** The visual aspects of document should not be overlooked. Color charts, tables of data to break up text, paragraph headings, varying typestyles--all of these contribute to making plan easier to read, and to more clearly explain business opportunity. 4) To Write A Plan, Read A Plan. ************************************** People who write novels are generally those who have read many, many, stories. They learn their craft by studying works of their favorite authors. You need to do same thing. Look at examples of business plans to get in your mind writing style, sequence in which ideas are presented, and parts to a plan. Sample plans are available on Internet at sites devoted to assisting entrepreneurs. 5) Pick A Section, Any Section ************************************* If you have never written a business plan before, you may have difficulty getting project started. It will seem as though you have an awful lot of blank pages staring back at you. To get plan moving, start with section that is easiest for you, or of most interest. 6) Spend Quality Time With Your Plan. ************************************* People often underestimate effort and energy it takes to write a business plan. They try to write it at night or when everything else at work is finished, in other words, when they are mentally and sometimes physically exhausted. A better approach is to write plan when you have energy available to put into it: go in early and think and write for an hour before phones start ringing.
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