Implementing Competency Frameworks
Implementation
The introduction of competences into an organization can have radical implications. By sharing our experience and knowledge, we offer advice on how to embed competencies into an organization to ensure their positive acceptance, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls into which others have fallen.
Having created the raw material with subject-matter experts, we develop simple, clear and easy-to-use tools and guidance materials based on the performance standards and turn them into useful, and user-friendly materials to help people use the competencies for a range of purposes.
Some of the uses of the performance standards include:
- recruitment aide memoires
- role profiles
- training needs analysis
- appraisal
- self-assessment
- team or function audits
The benefits
The clarity and objectivity with which these systems are designed contribute greatly to a fair and accurate set of expectations against which people can be assessed, and they provide the detail that people find so helpful when trying to identify their strengths and areas for development. So, organizations gain through having a comprehensive and transparent system which is capable of being applied to all areas of HR. Individuals gain through the recognition of their strengths, and specific, targeted help when their development needs are pinpointed.
