Building Competency Models Workshop
Built on best practices and decades of research, Workitect offers the most powerful competency framework available today. Learn how to build and implement models within your organization to align [...]
Are Competency Models Too Complex?
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” C. W. Ceran Many organizations are questioning the value of their existing competency models. Over the past few [...]
Build or Buy a Generic Competency Dictionary?
If you have decided to build competency models and/or include competencies in your HR applications, you will need to choose a method to use in building the models. Whatever [...]
How to Develop a Competency Model
Workitect's methodology for building models is based on the original job competence assessment (JCA) methodology developed in the 1970’s by Dr. David McClelland, a pioneer in competency research and [...]
General Approach for Analyzing Data to Build a Competency Model
STEP 4 - DATA ANALYSIS AND CODING Previous blogs have described steps 1 through 3 in Workitect's competency modeling process. Step 3, Data Collection, was covered in [...]
Interview and Select Candidates for Interpersonal Effectiveness
People Skills = Interpersonal Effectiveness The ability to notice, interpret, and anticipate others’ concerns and feelings, and to communicate this awareness empathetically to others. Behavioral indicators: Understands the interests and important [...]
Focused Competency Development Program
The objective of this program is to improve each person’s performance in terms of their position-specific competencies, and the organization’s overall performance against those competencies, through feedback, coaching, and [...]
Improve the Selection and Development of Marketing Representatives
FIRST, BUILD A JOB COMPETENCY MODEL Having a job competency model will help identify the skills, knowledge, and personal characteristics (aka competencies) that are required for superior performance of Marketing [...]