Posts in Employee Engagement
Improve Employee Retention with Competency Assessments

Are you looking for a way to reduce employee turnover and improve retention? Competency assessments are an effective tool for managers to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their employees. Try competency assessments today and see the difference they can make in your employee retention efforts.

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Competency models: Your tool to employee engagement & retention

Use competency models to improve employee engagement, performance, and workforce planning. Discover the key benefits of competency modeling and find out how it can help your organization remain competitive in today's fast-paced business environment.

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Why you need to start upskilling for Skills of the Future now

If the words “upskill and reskill” are bantered about by executives in your organization, that’s a big opportunity for you to demonstrate your value. And if they’re not, they should be. The World Economic Forum estimates we will need to reskill more than 1 billion people by 2030. How can you leverage this situation to demonstrate your value?

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5 Steps to start motivating employees to take charge of their development today

The Institute for the Future says that 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven't yet been invented. Guess what? That means that jobs that do exist today will be replaced by those new jobs. And it won’t take until 2030 to happen. It’s happening now.

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3 Tips for keeping competency-based learning sustainable

For competency-based learning to be sustainable, the competency model must be agile. Competency models describe what someone in a particular role should be able to do to perform their part of corporate strategy. If your strategy is changing regularly (and I believe that for your organization to continue to survive, it will), then your competency model has to change/adapt as well.

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Expertise as currency & reskilling at scale

Skills, and how fast employees and companies can learn, are quickly becoming the competitive advantage — and the biggest risk. This is why 80 percent of executives say they are worried about the availability of key skills when it comes to competing in the future. (PwC 21st Annual Global CEO Survey, 2018) And this is why talent development centered on skills and experiences needs to be a priority for us all.

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Easy data visualization techniques that drive buy in

The purpose of data visualization is to help make people aware of a situation and motivate them to take action. It is a way of influencing people to support your recommendations. It is much more compelling to tell the story and let your audience draw conclusions than if you make recommendations.

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Use competency models to motivate employees that aren't motivated by the organization’s mission

If you motivate someone to be great in their job, and the competency model defines what they need to be able to do in order to perform their part of corporate strategy, then by default, using competency models will drive the organization’s mission, even if they are not motivated by the mission itself.

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