Competency assessments come from the need of organizations to closely match each position’s required competency with each individual’s demonstrated competency level. Assessing the individual’s level is typically conducted by evaluating what the person has displayed in practice. Gathering this data can be done by requesting information from peers, managers, subordinates, or anyone within or outside the organization with whom they have worked with in the interactions of their job. These can be very time consuming and typically require a significant amount of workflow and process management. With TalentStudio, this task is easy.

TalentStudio can help you not only manage the competency appraisal process, but also provides you with a way to calculate the gaps between the displayed competency level and the positions requirements. These gaps can then be used to help target a development plan to make sure each individual is prepared for their tasks. You can also compare your current level to your target succession positions to determine the development needs for that next position. Combining competencies, development and succession together helps you prepare and motivate your employees towards their maximum effectiveness. And, of course, as your competency guidelines change, you can easily keep the process fresh by making changes to the levels, requirements, competency descriptions or the actual questions used. There is no need to bring in outside consultants or perform another costly implementation just to keep up with your every changing environment. And, if you would like, you can pilot these changes to any group of employees until you are ready to apply them to your entire population.

TalentStudio solution

With TalentStudio, you can facilitate the competency appraisal process from start to finish:

• Launch a competency assessment process, including identifying reviewers
• Allow for individual assessors -- both inside and outside the organization – to provide input
• Collect information through on-line forms
• Analyze and understand competency assessment data. TalentStudio reports can compute individual competency against requirements and/or any other assessors input.
• Create dashboard and scorecard reports and identify gaps and areas for training and development
• Longitudinally track and analyze how competency levels change over time. 

TalentStudio makes you better prepared to align talent management to business goals by:

• Identifying the degree to which employees are competently performing their roles and duties
• Measuring the “results” generated by employees – both at the individual and team level
• Understanding the gaps in skills/competencies/knowledge at the individual level and as a total “roll-up” of the organization
• Determining the needs of the organization from a competency perspective both today and for the future
• Identifying High Potential employees for both management and “specialized” roles
• Planning promotions based on skills/competencies/performance
• Addressing gaps in skills/competencies/knowledge based on performance review