The Strategic Importance of a Competency Framework
A business cannot excel and meet its strategic objectives without having a high percentage of superior performing employees at all levels. Consequently, talent management and development has become a [...]
Benefits of a Workitect Generic Competency Dictionary
Generic Competency Dictionaries are essential when developing multiple competency models within the same organization, to ensure that common skills and characteristics are always described with the same competency names. [...]
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 [...]
Quick-Start Competency-Modeling Program
The Quick-Start Competency-Modeling program enables a competency dictionary licensee to build basic competency models using focus groups, supplemented with optional job task analysis interviews.
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 [...]
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.
Include Technical Competencies in Your Competency Library
Many organizations want to include technical competencies, skills, knowledge, in competency models and human resource applications. Off-the-shelf competency libraries and dictionaries for very specific technical specialties are available. Most [...]
Time Required to Build a Job Competency Model
An example of process for building a job competency model using Workitect’s Six-Step Model Building Process