Competency-Based Career Planning
Download Workitect’s Competency-Based Career Planning Kit—a practical self-assessment guide with forms and templates to identify strengths, choose competencies to develop, and build clear development goals. Includes planning diagrams, selectors, and action plans.
Understanding General and Technical Competencies
For an organization to thrive, its general and technical competencies must be very clear to the decision-makers. Only after knowing your company's strengths and weaknesses can you work towards improvements [...]
Using Competency Models to Design Effective Leadership Development Programs
Organizations invest heavily in leadership development, yet many programs fail to produce measurable improvements in performance. One of the main reasons is a lack of structure connecting leadership training to [...]
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 [...]