Why do you need a competency framework?

Competency frameworks articulate the skills and behaviours your business needs to deliver your goals. It's as simple as that. As such, a competency framework is a critical component of your HR strategy and underpins decision making in recruitment, development and performance management.

What are competencies?

A competency is a characteristic which delivers outstanding performance in a given job, role or function.

A competency framework reflects the requirements of a group of roles or all of the roles in your business. However, we don't just produce a list of competencies. When we develop competency frameworks we focus on a small number of behaviours that deliver greatest value, usually economic value. We look at the interrelationships between the competencies and make sure they deliver overall performance. For instance, having lots of team based behaviours for a leadership role will not deliver the best performance in that job.

How can you use them?

• Recruitment and selection - we can train you in competency based interviewing which is one of the most effective assessment techniques
• Performance management - We can help you build competencies into performance management systems and train people in how to assess competencies and give competency based feedback
• Talent management - We can design 360 degree assessment tools to identify your key talent for the future.
• Training and development - we can develop or recommend courses or training to address specific competency gaps.

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Our track record

We have experience developing performance based competency models for the following organisations: