Webinar: 5 Factors in Effective Competency Models

Webinar: 5 Factors in Effective Competency ModelsCompetency models can provide a central framework for defining the skills and behaviors essential to an organization’s success. A well-built competency model provides a strong support structure for leadership development, talent, and performance management. A robust competency model outlines the behaviors needed to create the organization’s desired culture.

But how effective is your competency model? Does it clearly and effectively identify the skills and behaviors that enable everyone at all levels to be more effective? Many don’t. Less effective competency models fall into these traps:

  • Complexity – different competencies for different levels and different behaviors for the same competency too often confuse and confound.
  • Unconnected to results – many nice-to-do competencies don’t reliably predict outcomes like engagement, turnover, profitability, sales, safety, and other key outcomes.
  • Vague targets – an effective competency model helps everyone find their development sweet spot at the intersection of his or her passion, organizational need, and competence.
  • “Smooshing” – to simplify their models, some organizations are combining several competencies (sometimes positive and negative) to form one competency.
  • Missing competencies – some models focus on interpersonal or leadership behaviors and missing critical skills like getting results, technical expertise, or problem solving.
  • Improving everything – 3 to 5 relevant, results-oriented competencies can be leveraged to boost performance to the 90th percentile.

These are some of the common pitfalls and traps of competency models that Joe Folkman will address in his 45 minute (no charge) webinar 5 Factors in Effective Competency Models on January 31 at 11 am PT, 12 pm MT, 1 pm CT, and 2 pm ET.

Joe is a leading expert in psychometrics or measuring psychological factors with nine books he’s authored or co-authored. He’s spent over 30 years working with AT&T, General Motors, General Mills, Wells Fargo, Yale University, and many other global leaders on competencies and leadership development. And he’s a really nice guy!

Join Joe’s webinar to learn from his extensive research and experience with competency models distilled into 5 key factors.

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For over three decades, Jim Clemmer’s keynote presentations, workshops, management team retreats, seven bestselling books, articles, and blog have helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. The Clemmer Group is the Canadian strategic partner of Zenger Folkman, an award-winning firm best known for its unique evidence-driven, strengths-based system for developing extraordinary leaders and demonstrating the performance impact they have on organizations. Check out www.clemmergroup.com for upcoming webinars and workshops.

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