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Competency Management: At the Heart of Talent
Management
Why Winning Talent Management Initiatives Begin with
a Solid Competency Management Foundation
WHEN
November 14th
8:00am - 10:30am
WHERE
Doubletree Hotel
2111 Butterfield Road Downers Grove, IL
Join workforce solutions consultant and
competency management expert Christine Hipple as she
demonstrates how competency management is the common thread
between today's most pressing talent management
initiatives.
To help start attendees' journey to a successful
competency management initiative, Chris will outline the ACUTE
approach to competency management. The ACUTE approach,
developed by Chris as a practical guide to and successful
competency management program, consists of:
- Align with organizational objectives
- Create a model and infrastructure
- Use competency management in a small but valuable
initiative
- Track your progress
- Expand to other areas
Listen as Chris shares case studies to support
and explain how a wide range of organizations has used this
approach with success. Throughout the presentation attendees
will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in
the discussion. Leave the event with:
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A top-down view of a competency management
initiative
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Examples of how real organizations have used
a competency-based approach to such talent management
initiatives as staffing, development planning, performance
management, career planning and succession management
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Ideas on how to initiate or continue a
competency management program at your organization
The breakfast session will include informal
networking, the competency management presentation and ample
opportunities for discussion.
Contact Avilar: For
more information on the workshop or to reserve your space,
please contact Kasey Matoush at 402.486.4274or at
kasey.matoush@avilar.com, or
visit www.avilar.com
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Avilar
Introduces New Version of WebMentor Skills™ Competency Management
Tool
Avilar,
Inc., announced the release of WebMentor Skills Competency
Management System Version 6.3. The new version
enables organizations to better analyze organizational
skill gaps and training needs, search their employee
skills inventory and monitor changes in skills over
time. The new capabilities of WebMentor Skills improve its
abilities to support talent management initiatives such
as recruiting, performance management and succession
planning.
"Competency management is
the foundation of all talent management activities,"
notes John Skowlund, Avilar's Chief Executive Officer.
"The enhancements to WebMentor Skills allow for a more advanced
analysis of employee competencies and give organizations
improved insight into the workforce to support strategic
decisions in talent management."
The new version of
WebMentor Skills includes several new interactive reports to view
skill levels and skill gaps of an organization as well
as recommended learning resources. Users can select
filters to modify the report and drill down on charts
and graphs to instantly see the supporting data. For
example, human resource directors and business managers
can view a chart of skill gaps for each department and
then click a chart item to quickly drill down to analyze
data of each employee in the department. These users can
quickly identify major skill gaps, prioritize training
needs and project future recruiting requirements.
In addition, the expanded
Skills Search functionality in WebMentor Skills allows users to
search the organization's employee skills inventory and
identify employees with specific skills, experience and
demographic information. Skills Search supports an
organization's need to build project teams and identify
candidates for job openings. Furthermore,
version 6.3 of WebMentor Skills enables management of historical
employee skills data. Managing
historical skills data allows companies to monitor
improvements in skill levels and measure ROI of
training, recruiting and other talent management
activities.
For more information on
WebMentor Skills or Avilar itself, please visit:
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Competency Management Webinar
Series
Join Avilar's Director of Workforce
Solutions Christine Hipple for a series of competency
management webinars.
In Competency
Management it's Best to Give and Receive: How Giving the
Right Message Helps You Receive the Best
Information
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
1:00pm
- 2:00 pm 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, December 11th,
2007
1:00pm - 2:00pm 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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Avilar Events
Avilar will be present
at the following conferences:
Elliot Masie's Learning
2007
Orlando, FL
Oct. 21 - 24, 2007
Avilar Presents:
Competency Models that WORK Workshops
Columbia, MD
November, 7th, 2007
Washington, DC
December 5th,
2007
Competency
Management Breakfast
Chicago, IL
October 30th,
2007
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Competency Management Industry
News
7 Steps to Run Training Like a
Business by Josh Bersin
This article featured in eLearning!
Magazine provides seven steps on how to develop a
strategic planning process for training thereby changing
training into a strategic part of the organization. When Bersin
& Associates asked training managers where they had
operational plans for their training organizations, only
39% responded positively. That 39% rated
themselves three time for effective than the rest. As Bersin
writes, "If you don't have a roadmap, you will never
know when you arrive at your destination." For the seven
steps, read the full
article.
IBM's Approach to Encourage Individual
Learning
This Workforce Management article reviews
IBM's announcement to establish individual training and
education accounts for employees with at least five
years of service.
One of the account benefits includes a
401(k)-style matching of up to $1,000 annually for
education expenses. A second piece of
the program, the leadership component, joins global IBM
staff on projects to solve problems in developing
countries in partnership with nongovernmental
agencies.
The last piece helps IBM employees find
employment when they leave the company. Chief Executive
Samuel J. Palmisano says of the program, "We've set off
down the path of empowering and enabling our people to
make decisions and to act. We call this
lowering the center of gravity of the company... pushing
decision-making authority out and down." Read the
full
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