Avilar Consulting
Adaptable and Practical Competency Management Consulting
Avilar offers a variety of customized consulting services, some of which are described below.
Please email David Galvin or call 205-437-9320 for more information.
Implementing competency management can be challenging. Industry analyst Josh Bersin found that while “86 percent of HR managers believe that competency management is critical to their success … only 15 percent believe that their competencies are well-defined at an enterprise level.” With practical guidance from Avilar’s competency consultants, you can successfully implement lasting initiatives that directly address your unique workforce challenges.
Avilar consultants have implemented competency management initiatives in organizations of all sizes and industries for decades, from 50 to over 100,000 employees in the private, non-profit and government sectors. Avilar’s approach is based on two guiding principles. Every concept and tool we use is:
- Grounded in best practices of talent management
- Practical enough for contemporary organizations with limited resources to implement quickly and achieve meaningful results
We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all consulting formula. Instead, Avilar’s team of competency management consultants approaches each organization and its unique circumstance as an original project requiring an adaptable and flexible approach.
Services Provided
Competency Project Planning
- Alignment of competency management initiatives to business strategy
- Workshops for competency management project design and strategy
- Internal communication plan design
Competency Model Development
- Development of skill dictionaries and role profiles
- External research and benchmarking
- Internal surveys, focus groups, interviews and job task analysis
Project Management and Oversight
- Assistance at any stage in the project, from project plan to comprehensive plan to analysis and application of data
- Benchmarking at stages for feedback and guidance
- Full or part-time consultants available for on-site project management
Business Analytics
- Identification of skills gaps and learning needs at the individual, work group and organizational levels
- Strategic approach to staffing, learning, career and succession planning
- Support for disaster and pandemic planning
Avilar Educational Programs
Training When and Where You Need It
Avilar offers a variety of customized educational programs, some of which are described below.
Please email David Galvin or call 205-437-9320 for more information.
Full Day Workshops
Competency Management 101: Competency Models that WORK
Competency management is central to all learning and talent management initiatives, yet leaders in many organizations fear that developing a competency model is too complicated, expensive and time consuming. This workshop will help you develop a cost-effective competency model by breaking down the complex process into a practical set of specific actions to make this process work for your organization. You will learn how to align your competency model with your organization’s strategic initiatives, develop a comprehensive project plan, use a variety of techniques to gather and refine competency definitions, develop a structure that will accommodate current and future needs.
Competency Management 201: Putting Competency Management to WORK
You’ve developed your unique competency model. Now what? This workshop will assist you to develop a plan for testing and validating your model and for implementing and evaluating a competency management application. Case studies of organizations who have used competency based employee selection, development planning, career planning, performance management and succession planning will be used to identify best practices in validation and implementation.
One-hour Workshops
Communicating Your Workforce Initiative with Stakeholders
No matter how well you’ve designed and developed your workforce initiative, poor communication can lead to disaster. In this interactive session, you’ll identify your stakeholders, anticipate their interests and concerns, begin to create a communication plan and timetable, identify critical considerations for crafting and delivering your messages, develop a plan to tune in to stakeholder reaction and change course if indicated.
Assessment Tips and Tricks
With some thoughtful preparation, foresight, and some knowledge about how to avoid some of the most common errors, your assessments will yield results you can really use. 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.
Strategic Training – Using Competency Management to Achieve Organizational Objectives
The concept of using competency modeling to drive strategic training initiatives makes sense, but requires a new mindset and some new skills. In this interactive session, you’ll assess your own skill gaps and develop an action plan that will help you align your learning initiatives with organizational strategy, create a competency model and infrastructure, use competency management in a small but valuable initiative, track and report your progress and expand to other areas.
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