Posts in Competency-Based Learning
What’s the difference between a Competency Model and Competency-Based Learning for a job role and job family?

When 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.

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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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Flip The Script On Uncertainty – Take Control!

In uncertain times, the best thing to do is take control. What can we control? Our own personal development. What you want to promote is that they have the opportunity, right here and now, to develop their skills – whether that is in their current role or to prepare them for their next role, wherever that may be.

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A Lesson on Upskilling from the film, Top Gun: Maverick

In order to train his group, Maverick breaks down the mission into its core deliverables and trains on each part of the mission. This is exactly how we need to address corporate training – by breaking down each role into the skills (and associated behaviors) needed to be great at our jobs. This is called competency-based learning.

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How to combat “I don’t have time for learning” syndrome

Business impact is the #1 measure desired by CEOs and only 8% currently see the business impact of L&D, you can see that skill practices have the unique ability to connect the dots for executives like nothing else.

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3 Tips to make competency-based learning stick following formal learning

With the speed of change driving upskilling and reskilling efforts, it has never been more important to ensure that classroom and other formal learning events result in skill improvement.

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How do I create competency-based learning that address needs of different business units with shared development goals?

If you work in Learning and Development in either a federated hub-and-spokes model or you own L&D for the corporation, you l want to be able to create competency-based learning content that addresses the needs of different business units.

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Why You May Be Responsible For The Disconnect Between Learning & Strategy… And How To Fix It

They say that perception is reality. What if perception is that your learning department is perceived to have minimal impact on corporate strategy?

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