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Competency
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In this regular column, readers contact
Avilar for ideas and suggestions about competency
and learning solutions. Have a question you'd like
to see answered next month?
Submit your question to Chris
Dear
Avilar,
We are undergoing a
training and development initiative for our senior
level managers and realize that a critical
component will be, not only to identify the
current skills they need to be successful in their
roles as managers right now, but also trying to
foresee the skills they'll need to be successful
in the near future.
What types of manager
skills do you think will be
most important in the coming years given the state
of the economy, the state of talent in the talent
pool, and the aging demographics of many senior
leaders?
Sincerely,
"Identifying Skills for
Tomorrow"
Dear
"Identifying Skills for
Tomorrow",
Kudos for taking on
such an important and valuable initiative! You may
not realize it, but you are in the beginning
stages of building a competency model for your
senior managers. A competency models defines the
critical skills required to be successful in a
given job-role including levels of proficiency and
a rating of how important the skill is in relation
to the other critical skills. You can
view an excerpt from the Avilar Competency Model
here.
These two free white papers will
provide you with some valuable insights before
embarking on the project.
1. Implementing Competency
Management: The Critical Success Factors
2. Common
Competency Management Pitfalls: How to Avoid
Detours on the Road to Competency
Management
As for senior level manager
skills for your competency model, every
organization is different due to business model,
culture, and a wide range of other variables. You
might consider including some of the following
skills with fairly high levels
of proficiency. Some are timeless in their
importance and some more geared toward planning
for the future.
- Adaptability
- Integrity
- Visioning
- Influence
- Innovative thinking
- Systems thinking
- Quality focus
- Technology awareness
- Embraces technology
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Develops/Mentors others
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Manages virtual team
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Sets performance expectations
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Builds & sustains relationships
- Self-awareness & control
- Solution assessment & validation
- Project management & execution
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Identifies required resources &
budget
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Identifies & evaluates
risks As you begin to build your
competency model, keep in mind that you are trying
to identify the most critical skills required for
success, not every skill every employee needs.
Best wishes for a successful program and I hope
you'll keep us posted on how things are
going!
Cheers,
Andy Jaynes
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Just
Released! Version 6.5 of WebMentor
Skills
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Avilar
is proud to announce the newest release of its
WebMentor Skills competency management system.
Here's a sampling of the many new features that
will bring additional value to our
clients:
- The ability to establish relationships such
as mentors, preceptors or managers in other
departments to facilitate assessments by people
other than an employee's direct
supervisor
- Greater flexibility in assigning system
access privileges
- Extended development and career planning
options
- The ability to launch and play multiple file
types right from the development plan
- The ability to hide the left navigation menu
for employees and/or managers
- Expanded numbering capabilities in groups
and sets
- The ability to "clone" roles
- Greater flexibility in creating "home" pages
for employees and managers
- The ability to customize the employee
selector screen for managers
- A new report that will allow you to look at
a specific department's skill gaps
Schedule
an online demonstration today to find out more
about the system's skill assessment and
development capabilities, or visit the WebMentor
Skills web page to learn
more.
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Introducing
the Competency Company Blog
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Check
out our first two posts!
US Dept
of Education Reports that a Blended Learning
Approach is Most Effective
46% of
New Hires Fail - and not because they lack
skills
We intend to continue posting
about topics, trends, and other things we hear
about and see online that are relevant to talent
management, training & development, eLearning,
and competency management.
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discuss anything in this email or on Avilar.com. Our best
product & service improvements come from
you! Sincerely,
Andy Jaynes
Avilar Technologies,
Inc.
Email: Andy.Jaynes@Avilar.com
Twitter:
@CompetencyMgmt
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaynes
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