How would/have you managed personal/staff development in an organization?(in a start up or start up-like enviroment)
Just realizing that, left alone, I would not care that much to develop the so called "soft skills"; and how much of an impact could that have in my whole experience as a person.
I know, traditionally, this is a more bussines oriented matter, but I want the hackers indsigth.
Good, a concept that doesn't get much attention!<p>I'm lucky in that I work for an organization that identifies areas that employees need to be competent in and offers a number of courses aimed at getting better in those areas. Also managers have a list of courses that are <i>required</i>. Stuff like basic Finance, people skills, interviewing techniques, management skills, etc. As a new first-level manager I'm still working my way through all this stuff and I am learning a lot.<p>If it were not for this I probably wouldn't even have realized the areas where I was lacking. Instead I've taken a ton of these classes and learned a lot about myself.<p>If I were designing something like this I'd start with a personality profile that would let the user understand where they needed improvement and how to also improve the areas where they were already strong.