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How Competency Models Challenge Your Perception of Mentoring
How Competency Models Challenge Your Perception of Mentoring

Discover how competency modeling and task-based mentoring can help you support mentoring programs on a scale that improve your organization's bench strength. With a few people teaching the many, you can see rewards and increased engagement from your employees. Get started today!

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Why you need to start upskilling for Skills of the Future now
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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3 Ways to address learning levels in competency models
3 Ways to address learning levels in competency models

Now you have a model that people can easily assess against for both upskilling in their current job and also reskilling to learn a new role (career planning and workforce agility). It will define any skill gaps and tell them exactly what learning level of activity they need to develop. It will make them self-sufficient and able to capitalize on intrinsic motivation and a growth mindset. And it tells you exactly what learning content you need to close your organizational skill gaps and position it for future success.

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Expertise as currency & reskilling at scale
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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Custom vs. standard competency models and when to use them
Custom vs. standard competency models and when to use them

When you have a role that is pretty unique to your organization, or the nature of how your organization executes a function is what drives your competitive advantage, a standard capability framework may not suffice.

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Understand the skills you have (& potential skill gaps) with a custom competency model
Understand the skills you have (& potential skill gaps) with a custom competency model

Do you know what skills you have in your organization? Did you know that Sam in finance actually designs websites for his kids’ sports teams in his spare time? It may sound obvious, but knowing what skills your employees currently have, and at what levels of proficiency, is the essential first step in skill planning for the future.

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Easy data visualization techniques that drive buy in
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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The time for upskilling and reskilling is now
The time for upskilling and reskilling is now

“Companies can’t be resilient if their workforces aren’t. Building your reskilling muscle now is the first step to ensuring that your organization’s recovery business model is a success.”

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