Selecting for Success: Succession Planning
The challenge with any corporate succession plan is ensuring its adaptability to the dynamic nature of the actual succession process, as well as the shifting demands of a given [...]
Test for Competence or Intelligence?
The first competency model was developed in the early 1970’s by the eminent psychologist Dr. David McClelland and consultants from McBer and Company2. McClelland was a Harvard professor who published [...]
The Basics of Performance Management
The basics of performance management is this. Performance is the true test of survival in the marketplace. High-performing employees contribute superior performance, giving your organization its main competitive advantage. You [...]
The Competent New Human Resources Manager
You most likely already know that competencies help define the basic skills employees need to perform their job duties. But did you know that new managers in the human resources [...]
The Analytics of Managing Performance
The demand for performance-driven analytics has never been greater. By understanding the power of analytics within the human resource function, you can become predictive, and thus provide the answers to [...]
Better Hiring, Less Firing
Hiring employees is one of the most crucial decisions an organization or business owner will make. Compensation certainly is a large expenditure, especially when an employee ends up not being [...]
Talent Management: The Strategic Connection
There is one key element that defines the effectiveness of implementing competencies into a talent management system, and that is a strategic connection between business objectives and said competencies. Essentially: [...]
The Trainer’s Role in Developing Competencies
Competency modeling provides a truly ideal framework for your training programs. Studies show that competency-based training offers a return on investment (ROI) nearly ten times higher than the ROI of [...]