Competency-Based Succession Planning for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
For many small and mid-sized businesses, leadership continuity is one of the most critical yet overlooked aspects of long-term success. Companies often focus on day-to-day operations and growth strategies but [...]
Fostering Teamwork in Competency Development
Out of the several soft and technical competencies used to characterize the strengths of a workforce, Fostering Teamwork belongs to the top ones. It has two behavioral aspects; the team [...]
How to Include Competencies in Job Descriptions
Job descriptions, under a variety of names and formats, are used in most organizations. Most human resources information systems incorporate them in some way and connect the content to [...]
Seven Factors To Consider Before Building Competency Models
There are factors to consider before attempting to develop and implement a competency framework for talent management - factors that can make or break your best efforts.
Developing the Competency of “Adaptability”
Background Ongoing changes in the world are causing a high level of stress, and the need to adapt to that stress. The pandemic dramatically changed the workplace landscape. Lockdowns and self-isolation [...]
Tips for Building Great Competency Models
Whether you use Workitect’s six-step process or another process to build competency models for your organization, these actions and decisions will increase the likelihood of your project being successful. • [...]
Creating Competency-Based Talent Management Processes – Case Study
Air Canada looked for a consultative competency-modeling workshop that could be built upon its own internal data, and tailored to different segments of its HR department, for a variety of applications. It was also seeking guidance on current best practices for organizations with similar challenges. Workitect provided the workshop and a competency dictionary.
Are Your Homemade Competency Models & Competency Dictionary Half-Baked?
Use a flexible and comprehensive competency dictionary to develop custom competency models. Throughout the years we have been building competency models for organizations, our consultants have spoken with many [...]