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| New White Paper - Common Competency Management
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Twenty-Seven Competency Management Project
Tips Offered in New Avilar White Paper
Avilar released a white paper this week entitled
Common Competency Management Pitfalls: How to Avoid Detours on
the Road to Talent Management. The white paper, written by
Avilar’s Director of Workforce Solutions Christine Hipple,
includes 27 tips on how to avoid mistakes commonly made on
competency management projects.
The white paper is divided into three sections;
Planning Pitfalls, Competency Model Pitfalls, and Execution
Pitfalls. Each section includes three mistakes, and for each
mistake there are three avoidance tips, making 27 competency
management project tips within the paper. The complimentary
white paper is currently available on Avilar’s website,
www.avilar.com.
“As a true believer in competency management and its
benefits to all organizations, I hate to admit to the
difficulty and downsides, but as with any large-scale project
there are plenty of areas for mistakes,” says Hipple. “The key
is to learn from the mistakes of others and do the project
right from beginning to end. I, and the other consultants at
Avilar, created this paper because we know that everyone who
reads it will take at least one of the tips, probably several,
apply it to their projects, and see better results in the
end.”
The white paper is full of stories from consulting
projects that create concrete examples for the reasoning
behind the tips. In one example, Hipple cites a company that
had no consistency in the wording of their competency model.
Each department composed their own model and when it came time
for leadership to make decisions based on the assessment data,
they were unable to understand the results because of the
technical definitions. The client had to take an unnecessary
step of translating the assessments into a language everyone
could understand. As a tip, Hipple recommends that model
writers “make assessments more accurate by defining
non-technical skills in observable, behavioral terms and
avoiding technical jargon.”
When asked about the decision to share such a wealth
of consulting advice in this white paper, Hipple responded,
“This white paper is aligned with Avilar’s approach of
practicality and grounding consulting advice in best
practices. What better way to prove Avilar’s approach than by
demonstrating our use of those principles?”
Several decades of competency management project
experience were compiled by Hipple and other Avilar
consultants, including Director of Competency Management Hal
Gerrish. Hipple says these stories are just a sample of their
consulting experience.
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| Upcoming Webinars |
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Complimentary Webinars by Avilar Consultants,
Directors and Developers
CM 101: Information and Q&A
Session
March 14th 11am EST
A short
information session will be held to describe the activities to
take place as part of "CM 101: Competency Models that WORK."
This information session will discuss the benefits of the
activities taking place, what you will bring back to your
organization, how the workshop will contribute to your career
development, as well as the background of the workshop
director, Christine Hipple. Following the session will be a
question and answer period. Register
for this presentation.
Webinar - Success Stories in eLearning
April 24th 2pm EST
Take a tour with Joe Jaynes,
Avilar’s Director of Customer Operations, to several different
companies and see how they’ve leveraged their LMS to solve
unique training issues. From the healthcare training
organization that has served the needs of over 100,000
hospital employees to an industry association that has taken
their conference seminars online. There is no charge
associated with this event. Register
for this presentation.
Webinar - Competency Management Pitfalls: How to
Avoid Detours on the Road to Talent Management
April
26th 2pm EST
Due to the popularity of this webinar,
Avilar's Director of Workforce Solutions and twenty-year
competency management veteran Christine Hipple will present
the webinar done earlier this year. Hipple will discuss some
of the avoidable wrong turns and give over 25 tips to help you
stay the course in your competency management project. There
is no charge associated with this event. Register
for this presentation.
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| Industry News - Elliot Masie and Conversations with
Leaders in Learning |
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Elliot Masie and Podcasts with Leaders in
Learning
Brooke Thomas from Elliot Masie's team at the MASIE
Center conducted nine interviews of presenters of
Mini-Seminars at Learning 2006. The interviews are based on
key learning challenges these learning leaders face in their
organizations and careers. Interviews include:
- Robert Parry from Western Internal University on
Engaging Students in the World of Online Learning
- Michael Sunnarborg from Target on Impacts and Benefits
of Bended vs. Instructor Led vs. e- Learning
- Catlyn Gregory of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu on How to Get
Stakeholders' Acceptance for Something New, Nifty and Cool,
Instead of Doing the Same Old Thing
- Barbara McKnight from Countrywide Home Loans on Holding
Learners Accountable After a Learning Event
To view
these and the other five conversations please visit http://ww
w.learningwiki.com/topics
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Competency Management Best
Practices |
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Avilar Offers Best Practices in PDF Form
Over the last few months Avilar has released several
competency management best practices. They have been posted on
the Avilar website for viewing but are now also available as
PDFs. Now you can print off the best practices as reminders or
to share with your colleagues.
The PDFs are available on the Avilar
website or you can download them below. We hope you enjoy
them.
For questions pertaining to Avilar Best Practices or
Avilar solutions or services, please contact David Galvin at
205-437-9320 or by e-mail at galvin@avilar.com.
Total Quality Management
With stringent
measurement requirements and deadlines, this technology
manufacturer Director of Training was presented with a
certification challenge by the President and very little time
to accomplish it. But with the correct tools he found the
challenge would not only be met, it would revolutionize how
the organization trained and managed its workforce.
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PDF
Preparing for Mergers &
Acquisitions
Prior to one of the largest bank mergers
in history, this banking client made two pre-acquisition
workforce goals; to measure the competency levels of its
workforce for staffing, and to align training with the
client’s organizational goals. The following successful merger
is a testament to the proactive nature of this
industry-leading organization.
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PDF
Better Project Teams
This engineering
contractor found that with competency management, improving
project team success rates could be done more effectively by
supplying their project management system with better
information about the skills of their talent pool. The client
found that competency management was integral to project team
optimization.
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PDF
A Certification Challenge
This large
electrical engineering and electronics company knew competency
management was an efficient route to maintaining a competitive
advantage, winning contracts and forecasting training.
View
PDF
An Unintentional Competency
Management
Use
This Fortune 50 company manufacturing plant found
that a competency management solution was valuable far beyond
its original intent.
View
PDF
View Best Practices on the Avilar
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