About Workitect ::

Architects of organizational and leadership effectiveness

Workitect is a consulting and training firm that provides competency-based human resource tools, programs and systems with applications for:

	Talent Management
	Assessment & Selection
	Performance Management
	Succession Planning
	Training and Development
	Leadership Development

For 25 years, Workitect has provided innovative and effective solutions that help organizations assess, select, develop, and retain superior performers in the workplace.

We are a small, highly specialized firm. Each consultant has at least 25 years of relevant experience. Our customers find us to be flexible, approachable, easy to work with, practical, and effective. Our work in competency systems is based on solid research, much of it learned from our association with McBer and Company, the firm that created and perfected job competency modeling. The research is described in Competence At Work, published by John Wiley & Sons. Our own dictionary of 34 competencies [113kb PDF] and behaviors is an integral part of our work.

Capabilities

Competency-Based HR Systems
Studying the people who are already producing extraordinary results, identifying their characteristics...then designing selection, training and performance management systems that drive superior performance.

Competency Development
Giving people the opportunity to develop the competencies needed to produce extraordinary results… by providing competency-based leadership and professional development programs and modules that can be customized to an organization's needs.

Developmental Resources and Tools
Providing user-friendly tools to help organizations and individuals increase competence…including a Resource Guide for Developing Competencies, an online eDeveloper™, a Managing Performance and Developing Competencies video program, and 360 degree multi-rater feedback instruments.

Global Perspective
Training and consulting for multi-national firms outside of the United States, licensing our products and services to consulting firms In Poland and Romania, and publishing a Resource Guide for Global HR Competencies.

Software and Technology
Partnering with Halogen Software to make our competencies and developmental resources available to users of Halogen's human resources suite of programs. Offering a virtual resource panel for organizations developing job models in widely dispersed locations.

About Competencies

Competencies include behaviors, skills, knowledge, values, self-image, traits, & motives.

A job competency model is a "blueprint" that describes the underlying characteristics (or competencies) of an individual that drive behavior leading to superior performance in a job.

Our History

Merit Group, Inc. (aka Merit Performance) was founded in 1982 in Birmingham, Michigan and relocated to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1984. We became Plum International in 2001 and Workitect, Inc. in 2005.