Building and Using Competency Frameworks

Overview:

Competency frameworks now sit at the core of many organisations’ selection, training and development, performance management and reward systems. This course provides an overview of the latest developments in the competency field by applying the theory to case studies and more importantly, to your business.

Objectives:

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Understand what are competencies, why and when do we use them  
• Devise a set of organisation competencies and explain how can they be embedded into the culture?
• Review the application of competencies ensuring that they support business objectives not stifle them
• Establish what the benefits and limitations are from using a competence framework
• Use competencies to design reward, recruitment, induction, development, career planning and exit programmes
• Use external providers to develop competencies and frameworks

Topics covered:

• Job analysis including self assessment of competencies
• Core competencies versus a handpicked selection and how to weight them
• Differences between technical and non technical competencies
• Characteristics of good competencies and ensuring the link to the business objectives
• The measurement of competencies to ensure clarity and fairness
• Understanding the links to intrinsic and extrinsic rewards
• Theory of competencies and what we can expect in the workplace
• Creating a competence framework
• Linking to particular compliance legislation, for example, the FSA
• How to engage your project sponsor and selling a competence framework to the business
• Testing and reviewing the framework to ensure that the complexity of the competence program suits the organisation for which it is being designed 'fit for purpose'.

Duration: 2 days
Maximum Places: 12
Group Price: £1,700

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029 20 491 491

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