Identify an Organization’s Core Competencies
Core Competencies are what the organization does best and consist of the combined activities, operations, capabilities, and resources that distinguish the [...]
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 [...]
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.
Include Competencies in Your HRIS or HCM Software
When a company considers or purchases human resource information system software, the software usually comes with a pre-loaded list of competencies [...]
Choose from Three Types of Job Competency Models
When planning a competency model-building project, three distinctive types of models need to be considered: Single Job Competency Model One-Size-Fits-All Model [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]