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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreHow can you get the organization to change? You add a skill to every role’s competency model that demonstrates what innovation looks like to them.
Read MoreExperience does not equal competence. Experience equals merely experience. That’s someone who has done something for a long time… not necessarily well.
Read MoreWhen it comes to competency-based learning, you will likely recommend learning that will get someone to their target level (meaning the learning objectives help them perform the behaviors in that level). Using the previous example, you’d recommend an activity that would get a Pre-Sales person to a level 2 or even a level 3. But for the Sales VP, you’d recommend a different activity to get them to a level 5.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreOne-time reskilling and upskilling efforts will not be sufficient to deal with transformations in the long-term. Companies and their ecosystems need to build a culture of life-long learning which allows employees to continuously improve their competencies. – World Economic Forum
Read MoreA competency model is a list of all the skills that someone in a particular role needs to do at a target level in order to be successful in that role. Some people call a competency model as a “capability framework” or “skills rubric”.
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