Kim Crider Thomas Stone David Mantica

1. Bridging the Gap to the Future
Academia Industry
Investing in T-Shaped Professional Development

2. CHALLENGES BUSINESSES FACE

3. Challenges Facing Organizations in 2016
• Speed
– Rapid pace of disruption and change
– Businesses that can’t handle change, lose and lose quickly ”adaptive / nimble”
• Productivity Challenge
– Key to profitability
– Automation driven
• Finding Competitive Advantage
– Hiring the best and the brightest “ware for talent”
– Customer knowledge “internal and external” critical
– Can change quickly
• Product Creation hit or miss
– Driving elements of Lean Start-up into organizations
• Keeping High Quality in-demand workers
– Salary increases have slowed drastically since 2008 and right now it seems the only
way to get a raise is if you move to another company

4. Digital Technologies Are Driving Skills
Development Needs

5. Rise of Knowledge Workers
It took 77 months to get to pre recession employment levels with
the last recession, it normally takes 18 months
The % of management positions has decreased from 28% of the
economy in 2000 to 24% in 2010
Advancements in digital technology demand workers with
creativity and problem solving skills but also requires a new
investment in development and digital training
MIT How Tech is Destroying Jobs 6.12.13
Knowledge workers are engaging in creativity and
problems solving, and they have specific skill
requirements

6. Evolution of “T Shaped” Professionals
Knowledge workers facilitate greater productivity
and stronger decision-making
The fate of individuals and companies hinges on
T-shaped people
Unfortunately, T-shaped people are the exception
rather than the rule; not having these well rounded
leaders adversely affects companies every day
Is this condition Fatal? Serious? Can it be cured?

7. Who’s Ready Now?
80M Leaders needed
through 2030
Millennials
Workforce Planning Gap

8. T Shaped Professional Competencies
Source: Gartner(October
2015
The Technical
Professional
Technical Breadth:
“Connecting the dots”, integration, systems vs. technology thinking
Professional Effectiveness Competencies
Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, business acumen,
persuasion, etc.
Technical Depth:
Competency in at
least one discipline
For example: social,
mobile, analytics,
cloud, application
development,
business systems, etc.

9. Why is being T-Shaped Important?
Well rounded individuals have clear advantages over
people who are more narrowly focused
Translation: People who have balanced skill sets and also
have lives outside of work perform better inside of work!
In the end, this research should lead us to one place:
Achieve balance in our professional and personal life goals
A well-rounded person has a better chance of realizing
their professional and personal goals
Identifying, recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting T-
shaped professionals is critical to any company’s success

10. Developing T-Shaped Leaders
Proprietary model: ASPE, Inc. & Stone Business Professionals, Inc.

12. Service
Mindset
Trusted
Advisor
ITIL, Agile,
Project Management,
Information Security
Leadership
& Coaching
Management
Effectiveness
Specialized
Disciplines

14. 8 Steps to Building T Shaped Professionals
Identify T Shaped skills that have
strategic importance to your ability
to build closer, stronger ties with
your customers, clients and partners.
Conduct a skill-gap analysis using a
comprehensive assessment tool to
determine each employees’ current
proficiency level against the desired
proficiency level.
Prioritize gaps to identify groupings
of skill-gaps across departments or
the organization.
Establish a structured training &
development approach around key
competency tracks.
Organize a mix of rich content,
with both instructor-led and on-line
courses.
Create targeted development
plans that support growth from
novice-learner to expert-master in
each competency.
Incorporate digital badging to
record, track, share, and celebrate
individual achievement in each
track.
Recognize individual and team
level accomplishments to create
and sustain momentum in
becoming a learning organization.

15. Thank you!!!
We appreciate your time.
Presenter Contacts:
Kim Crider
CIO/Executive IT Consultant
Harvard University
603-318-4833 or
kimberly_crider@harvard.edu
Thomas E. Stone; CPTM
Principle/Executive Consultant
Stone Business Professionals
919.649.3623 or
thomas@stonebp.com
ASPE Training Resource
David Mantica
President: ASPE Inc.
919.816.1746 or
dmantica@aspeinc.com