"Building the Pyramid: Reaching Your Organization's Knowledge Peak" Michael, Director – Learning Performance December 5th, 2006

• How do you build any structure for learning successfully? • Environmental constraints and considerations? • What are the guides to ensuring knowledge success in the future? • What to do when you hit the summit?

How do you build any structure successfully?

• Target and Goals

Several of the initial thoughts of any new company are to best try to mimic the success models that have been achieved in the past and minimize the failures of other organizations. It is vital to recognize and acknowledge that in order to reach your organization’s knowledge peak, we must first ensure realistic targets are put into play, as well as goals for learning are aligned with the company’s mission and vision. Although these aspects are relative to a company’s current status for a specific time period, deriving dynamic short and mid term objectives that contribute to the long term strategies; play an integral part of preparing human capital at all levels. It is important to note that targets and goals will always be subject to the mercy of the management or stakeholder decisions, respective to the current or future environment – these main factors must be taken into consideration to establish a clear and concise direction for a learning organization.

• Planning & Architecture

Solid planning in building a strong company pyramid, is but one of many primary keystones to ensure the success of an ever growing organization. At 5:30pm Manila time, May 17th, 2006 – Leo Oracion conquered the mighty 29,000 ft Mount Everest – as part of the inaugural Filipino team to summit. To reach any peak, training and development of an organization can not be achieved without the appropriate planning, preparation and