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Build competency models that close skill gaps and deliver results

You can’t upskill or reskill without knowing the requirements for a role. Those requirements are defined in a competency or capability model. When people do a competency assessment, it identifies individual skill gaps that help them know how to upskill and reskill for their current or future job so they can succeed. In aggregate, skill gaps and proficiency data help executives pursue the best and most achievable strategy.

Here you’ll learn how to rapidly create a competency model (along with templates and instructions) and perform a competency assessment.


How to leverage competency-based learning to upskill employees for ‘Skills of the Future’

You’ll learn how to:
• Create a thriving competency-based learning initiative
• Identify, assess, and close skill gaps
• Recognize what type of competency-based learning works to build skills of the future
• Help employees learn how to learn


How to use standard competency models to accelerate learning transfer

You will learn:
• The components of a standard competency model
• How to make it actionable in weeks
• How to accelerate learning transfer, leveraging the 70-20-10 framework


Use competency-based learning to build habits and behaviors that drive business results

You will:
• Learn to link competency models to existing learning opportunities and identify gaps
• Get step-by-step instructions and templates for creating your own competency-based learning


How to create informal learning in a day

You will learn:
• How to ensure you are creating competency-based learning activities
• Step-by-step guidance on how to create competency-based learning activities in an hour
• How to operationalize their use


How to convert existing content into competency-based experiential learning

At the end of this webinar, you’ll:
• Be able to use a methodology to convert content including classroom, e-learning, microlearning, video, articles and webinars into competency-based experiential learning in less than an hour
• Have many examples of competency-based experiential learning you can use right away in your organization
• Have the ability to start changing learning mindsets, regardless of the size of your talent and learning team


How to Drive Employee Engagement and Business Results Through Upskilling

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
• Use techniques to drive engagement in your own upskilling and reskilling.
• Apply ideas for driving managerial engagement in team development.
• Provide leaders with methods to drive a development habit in existing venues.


Build a business case that shows the ROI of closing skill gaps and creating a culture of learning

In this webinar, we will build a business case you can present to your senior leaders to help them understand the magnitude of the skill-gap problem they face and how a culture of learning can help solve it.


Boost employee satisfaction through a modern learning approach

In this webinar, you’ll gain techniques you can use to:
• Be learner focused: Identify individual needs and skill gaps
• Be forward looking: Support career planning and growth
• Drive engagement: Provide modern personalized learning, both informal and formal


Building Capability vs. Performance Management: Using competency models to look forward instead of backward

In this webinar, you’ll learn:
• How capability enablement can overcome the limitations of traditional performance management to drive organizational agility
• How this approach addresses key talent management trends, including those tailored for Millennials
• How to sell this vision to leadership


How Duke University uses personalized learning to drive professional development

Learn how to emulate Duke University Development’s experience to promote a culture of learning. We’ll share our journey that includes creating competency models and competency-based learning, and implementing personalized learning technology that makes it all actionable. The result is Development staff who are motivated and empowered to own their professional development and career planning.


Millions of jobs lost…how you can help alumni reskill for the jobs that return

You’ll learn how to:
• Help alumni focus development efforts on Skills of the Future
• Motivate alumni to take the right action
• A model for providing tools at scale to help alumni connect the dots