Modelling Excellence

By Frank Mulligan ñ Accetis Interntional, Talent Software & Recruit China

Many years ago at a big presentation on staff coaching I was asked about the practical issues related to modelling excellence.

The person asking the question wanted to how what specific things they could do to encourage their older staff to show younger staff what they do, and how they do it. I didnít have a specific technology that really solves the problem but I think I have already seen it.

Itís not so much the video below but the whole infrastructure of Youtube that is being used in a very innovative, and emergent way. The guy in this video is called Jeong-Hyun Lim. He is not likely to be known to the average HR professional in China but he is well known on the internet for his self-recorded video on Youtube. He used the pseudonym ëFuntwoí and he uploaded his video just to see what it looked like. Since then over 7,000,000 people have seen it.

Yes, thatís 7 million...

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The video takes an arrangement of Pachebelís Canon in D and really pushes it to the limit. Jimmy Hendrix he is not. Heís actually better.

More importantly, other young guitarists have tried to emulate him and have uploaded their own version of Pachebelís Canon in D. It seems to have created the kind of buzz that HR and training professionals would sell their mothers for.

There is no logical reason why the same kind of video cannot be created for company level training in component design, pharmaceutical research, marketing best practices, customer care etc. After the training, the participants could view the video and then make their own. Their objective would be to make a video to the same standard.

All using Youtube, which is free, and a cheap video camera.

The training participants wonít achieve the same results immediately but nobody ever lost out by targetting the sun. They might just get to the moon and thatís far enough.

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