We are in the process of expanding our online presence as well as developing and adding new knowledge-based and learning resources to our collection of offerings. Thank you for visiting our site and taking a moment to get to know us!
What to expect from us as we expand our online knowledge-based and learning resources
We are transforming our resources into a variety of formats and making them available online. This process has been time-consuming and requires a lot of hard work and effort from our staff and contributors, but we know that it will be worth it in the upcoming months as we finalize and add these resources to our site and other online platforms.
Our approach and focus is on novel, unique, useful, and difficult to find topics that bring together knowledge and concepts from different fields to deliver true value. This enables us to achieve one of our core driving principles, which is to empower people to build cross-domain competency. We believe that personal development and success, which is defined differently from one person to the next, requires the building of knowledge, skills, and capabilities in many domains. A domain can encompass many things, and can more simply be thought of as a profession, academic field, skill or skill set, area of knowledge, or even a collection of capabilities associated with being able to perform a specific task or responsibility.
For example, an individual may have exceptional academic credentials and the ability to perform essential tasks associated with a job related to their education, but a barrier to their success may be that they lack certain soft skills that are invaluable to advancement in their chosen career. To be more specific in the example, someone with advanced credentials, skills, and knowledge in project management may lack the interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills to be effective in a given project management position. At the same time, there are certainly effective leaders, with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, who would fail miserably in the same position because they lack the domain-specific knowledge and training in project management.
In this example, the domains could include leadership, certain soft skills, and project management as a profession. One could also imagine that an individual in a position where leadership is central, such as a senator or governor, could also benefit from developing formal project management skills and knowledge. To take this example a step further, it is easy to imagine how both a project manager at a major corporation and the governor of a state could benefit from developing competence in the area of psychology. To give a specific example, the project manager could benefit from an understanding of performance psychology and the governor could benefit from an understanding of social psychology or sociology.
These examples highlight the importance of cross-domain competency. The knowledge and skills you develop in mastering one domain can be leveraged to master another. Highly effective and capable individuals are typically those who have developed competency across multiple domains, and this truth guides our approach and focus and the knowledge-based and learning resources that we deliver.
Thank you again for visiting our site, we welcome you to our community and look forward to the things to come as we continue working to bring our resources online.
- The LISBI Team
