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| The Avilar Competency Model |
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Avilar Releases Competency Model
If you're interested in starting a competency
management program but are unsure of where to begin, Avilar's
new competency model may be your answer. This week Avilar
releases the Avilar Competency Model as part of an effort to
create a more functional and complete competency management
solution. With the addition, Avilar hopes to better fit the
needs of organizations at varying stages of the competency
management process.
Competency model co-creator and Avilar's Director of
Workforce Solutions Christine Hipple can't seem to emphasize
the practicality of the model enough. "While creating this
model we always kept Avilar's guiding principles in mind; that
all of our solutions be grounded in best practices and
practical enough for contemporary organization with limited
resources to implement quickly and achieve meaningful results.
All of the consultants here have been practitioners so we
naturally put great emphasis on the functionality aspects of
everything we do," says Hipple. "This model is derived from
decades of HR and training experience across a variety of
sectors."
The skills dictionary within the model includes over
200 skills clustered in more than 40 skill groups and can be
used as is or customized to the specific needs of the
employing organization. The model is divided into three parts;
the professional skill set, the leadership skill set and the
occupational skill sets.
Avilar began offering a variety of competency
management products and services in 2005, but until recently
hadn't offered any services around getting the proverbial
competency management ball rolling. Avilar's CEO John Skowlund
says the addition of project-preceding solutions stems from
client and prospect input. "When we launched our competency
management system, WebMentor Skills, we expected we'd soon have a
number of clients underway. We found however that most
interested parties were nowhere near ready for a system."
Avilar found so many people lost on the starting
stages, Skowlund says, they knew they needed to provide
services that addressed the broader range of a competency
management initiatives. Since this realization, Avilar has
expanded its solution variety. Earlier this year, Avilar began
offering educational workshops including Competency Management
101: Competency Models that WORK, an interactive day- long
session that helps participants break down the complex process
of starting a competency management initiative into manageable
steps. Each attendee leaves with a customized action plan that
considers such aspects as organizational goal alignment,
cost-effectiveness and validation. Avilar also added more
pre-project consulting services such as project and
organization goal alignment, internal communication plan
design, skill dictionary and role profile development,
external research and benchmarking, and all levels of
competency management education.
"By offering this model we expect to provide a
foundation that puts competency management within reach for
more organizations," says Hipple. "If we accomplish one thing
we hope it is to show people that competency management isn't
as daunting as it might seem, it is in fact an achievable goal
even with limited resources."
More information on Avilar and the Avilar Competency
Model, including a sample section, is available on Avilar's
website, www.avilar.com.
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| Competency Management and eLearning
Webinars |
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Complimentary Webinars by Avilar Consultants,
Directors and Developers
Competency Assessment Tips and
Tricks
Wednesday, July 25th
11am EST
Like a weak link in a chain, a poorly designed
competency assessment can result in misleading skills data for
your organization. But, with a great deal of thoughtful
preparation, foresight, and some knowledge about how to avoid
some common errors, your assessments will yield useful
results. This webinar will outline a number of tips and
tricks, learned through decades of competency management work
by practitioners and consultants, on how to create the most
effective, efficient and meaningful skills assessments for
your organization. Tip one: Attend this webinar.
Register
for this webinar
In Competency Management it's Best to Give and
Receive: How giving the right message helps you receive the
best information
Thursday, September 20th
1pm EST
It's always true; if you don't send the right
message, you'll receive the wrong results. Competency
management projects are no exception. You've managed to
receive managerial buy-in, created an outstanding competency
model, put a competency management system in place, and had
all the right people sign off on your revolutionizing
competency management initiative. Now you're ready to spread
the good news. Here's where all your hard work pays off - or
is it? How you communicate a competency management project to
your organization can either lead to fantastic results or stop
your project dead in its tracks with little hope of recovery.
Join Christine Hipple, Avilar's Director of Workforce
Solutions, as she details the right and wrong ways to project
your competency management initiative at your organization.
Chris will list some methods to emulate, as well as highlight
many of the common communication plan mistakes. Don't let a
poor communication strategy stop your competency management
project!
Register
for this webinar
Automating Individual Development Planning: How
Competency Management Streamlines Training Efforts and
Promotes Career Planning
Tuesday, November 6th
3pm
EST
What is individual development planning and why do so
few organizations do it well? How can competency management
ensure that people have the capabilities for their current
jobs? How does career planning fit into the picture? How
should development planning and performance management be
integrated? What are the benefits of automating development
planning compared with decentralized or paper-and-pencil
systems? Join us to learn the answers to the above questions
and find out how this one competency- based initiative will
bring your organizations numerous benefits.
Register
for this webinar
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| Industry News - 12 Competencies that Make a Good
Communicator, Automate Your Succession Plan |
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12 Competencies that Make a Good Employee
Communicator
In a report by Melcrum, "How to Develop
Outstanding Internal Communicators", two development experts
found that professionals who are able to provide a range of
skills are in fact better communicators than those who focus
solely on providing strategic advice. In the published
findings is a set of 12 model competencies that "can be used
to help recruit, develop and promote employee
communicators."
Read
the full article.
The Importance of an Automated Succession
Plan
In this article, CIO Magazine points out that
succession planning is an essential piece of a company's
continuation and it needs to be implemented across the
organization. Technology is a way to automate the succession
planning process and bridge different divisions of the
company. One reason for a succession plan, according to
Aberdeen's director of human capital management practice David
Foster, is so employees see a career path at their
organization and won't search for growth opportunities outside
of the company. According to the article, "Succession planning
doesn't work well unless leaders can see an inventory of
skills by category and job classification. You have to
identify leadership potential before you can stop if from
walking out the door."
Rea
d the full article.
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Join Avilar at the ASTD Conference in
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Join us for Competency Management Mini Sessions during
the ASTD Exposition at Avilar booth #2115
Avilar will be presenting four mini competency
management sessions at the American Society for Training and
Development International Conference and Exhibition in
Atlanta. The four sessions will be presented by Avilar
consultants who will then be available to answer questions.
The sessions scheduled are:
Communicating with Stakeholders
Tuesday,
June 5th
11:30 - 11:50am during Expo Lunch
Join Christine Hipple, Avilar's Director of Workforce
Solutions, as she details some of the right and wrong ways to
project your competency management initiative at your
organization. Chris will list some methods to emulate, as well
as highlight many of the common communication plan mistakes.
Improving Workforce Performance through Competency
Management
Tuesday, June 5th
1:00pm - 1:20pm between
Expo Lunch and the 1:45 Sessions
Learn how Competency Management is being used to
improve workforce performance through targeted learning,
career planning, and performance reviews.
Assessment Tips & Tricks
Tuesday, June
5th
3:15pm - 3:35pm during the Ice Cream Break
With a great deal of thoughtful preparation,
foresight, and knowledge on how to avoid some of the most
common errors, your assessments will yield useful results.
This session will outline a number of tips and tricks, learned
through decades of competency management work by practitioners
and consultants, on how to give the most effective, efficient
and meaningful competency assessments for your organization.
Competency Management Pitfalls: Avoiding Detours
on the Road to Talent Management
Wednesday, June
6th
11:00am - 11:30am during the W200 Session
Competency management is emerging as one of the most
critical components of talent management. The good news is
that many people are spearheading movements to bring
competency management to their organizations however many are
hitting roadblocks that stop their competency management
project. This session will discuss some of the avoidable wrong
turns in competency management to help you stay the course.
If you are attending ASTD, have a great show and we
hope to see you at one of the presentations!
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