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Competency Management News-To-Use
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Avilar Introduces Competency Model Workshops to
Support Growing Demand for Practical Talent Management
Strategies
Avilar, Inc. introduces competency management
workshops designed to help professionals build cost- effective
competency models. The workshops will teach organizations how
to build a competency framework that will support their
efforts in training, performance management, career planning,
succession planning and recruiting.
“The number of people contacting us at Avilar about
competency management initiatives is exciting,” says Christine
Hipple, Avilar’s Director of Workforce Solutions and a
twenty-year veteran in the field. “The learning, business and
human resource communities understand that competency
management is at the heart of talent management, but it’s
tough to move from a conceptual understanding to a practical
implementation,” says Hipple. “Unfortunately, many people are
getting stuck in the planning stages of competency management
and experiencing frustration before they’ve had a chance to
get any results. We developed the workshop to give
professionals an action plan that will take them from the
initial steps to the core of the initiative.”
In addition to the Competency Management 101:
Competency Models that WORK workshops, Avilar offers a
competency management software product, WebMentor Skills, as well as
consulting services to support competency management efforts.
Avilar is also a ten year veteran in eLearning with its
Learning Management System, WebMentor LMS.
According to Hipple, the full-day interactive
workshop will cater to business leaders, learning and human
resource management professionals, and talent management
consultants. The four initial workshops, scheduled in
Columbia, MD, Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA and San Diego, CA,
will provide attendees with a customized project plan to
support competency management efforts at their organizations.
Additional workshops on advanced competency management
techniques and strategies will be introduced in March 2007,
says Hipple.
“Competency management programs can seem an ominous
task without the right tools and directions to assist in the
process,” says Hipple. “For this workshop, we’ve broken the
competency management planning process into a practical set of
specific actions to make the process realistic and
manageable.”
Hipple says the workshop is based on decades of
experience in understanding which factors make a competency
management program successful at varying organizations across
many sectors. The workshop includes a pre-workshop
questionnaire to enable workshop instructors to customize the
session to the needs of the attendees, a full day session from
which attendees will leave with a competency management
project plan, a blog for competency management discussion, and
a follow-up live web conference meeting for attendees to share
their challenges and successes and ask questions of Avilar’s
competency management consulting team.
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Have You Seen Avilar's Webinar Archive Yet?
Avilar is continuing to add webinars to its Webinar
Archive. See what is in the archive now.
Take Your Training Business Online - Success
Stories Series
Avilar's Joe Jaynes, Director of
Customer Operations, and client Jim Kranz, VP of careLearning,
share the success factors of Avilar training provider clients.
Hear Joe overview Avilar and its Learning Management System,
WebMentor LMS. Listen to Jim share his experience in bringing
a training business online. careLearning exceeded one
million registrations earlier this year and Jim certainly
knows the do's and do not's of growing a successful training
business. A Q&A session follows.
Competency Management: Aligning Individual
Performance with Organizational Goals
HR veteran and
competency management expert Christine Hipple presents this
webinar relating individuals to overall strategy. Chris's
mantra, "Organizations don’t get results, People do" guides
this webinar to show that in order for learning professionals
to be fully effective, they need to fully understand factors
that influence overall organizational success as well as
individual learning. This session discusses the how
organizational strategy, structure and competency modeling
affect workforce development. Chris also discusses learning,
engagement and accountability that enables individuals to
transform competence to results.
Training Providers and the 7 Success Factors of
Going Web-Based
Joe Jaynes, Avilar's Director of
Customer Operations and client Ole Nielsen, Managing Director
of com2learn, share com2learn's success in bringing a training
business online. The webinar includes what Ole learned from
the experience and his advice to other training providers.
The Roadmap to Competency Management: Taking
Directions from Scenarios
Hal Gerrish, Avilar’s
Director of Competency Management, pulls from his 20 years
experience in implementation and analysis of competency
management. Hal describes several scenarios in which
competency management is beneficial to organizations and also
details the unique objectives and variations in process and
data requirements needed to support them.
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| Industry News - The Economist article "The
Battle for Brainpower", IBM and ASTD Joint Study "Closing the
Generational Divide" |
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The Economist Recognizes the War for
Talent
The article from the first week of October's
Economist magazine recognizes that the need for brainpower is
increasing and the world's population isn't keeping up.
According to Accenture, intangible assets in S&P 500
companies has increased from 20 percent in 1980 to 70 percent
today. In addition to the increase in the number of jobs
requiring more talented employees, there is the impending
retirement of America's baby boomers. RHR International, a
consultancy, says that 500 of America's largest companies will
lose half of their senior managers in the next five years.
Although there are many benefits to an increased focus on
gaining and retaining talented employees, the article predicts
that inequalities will increase from the competition for
talent and there may be an unanticipated backlash. This
article is one of a series on workforce talent from this
Economist issue.
For
the full article.
IBM and ASTD Join to Present Study, "Closing the
Generational Divide"
This study recognizes that workforce demographics are
shifting due to an aging workforce and trainers are a
necessary part of the solution. The study suggests that in
order for trainers to participate in a solution, they need to
play a role in "determining critical skills and capabilities,
transferring knowledge and reducing time-to-competency for
newer employees." The study goes on to explain in more detail
how these areas will affect the demographic shift and what the
results will be.
For
the full article.
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Avilar Announcements |
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WEBINAR
Competency Management Pitfalls: How to Avoid Detours
on the Road to Talent Management
Date: Dec. 5, 2006
Time: 2:00pm
EST
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Presented by Christine (Chris) Hipple
Synopsis: Competency management is emerging as
one of the most critical components of talent management and
the good news is that many people are spearheading movements
to bring competency management to their organizations. The bad
news is that many people are hitting roadblocks that stop
their projects dead in their tracks. In this webinar,
competency management veteran and Avilar’s Director of
Workforce Solutions Chris Hipple will discuss some of the
avoidable wrong turns in competency management to help you
stay the course.
About the Presenter: Chris has more than
20 years of strategic human resources and training experience
across several fields. She consults with Avilar clients on
WebMentor LMS and WebMentor Skills as well as contributes to Avilar’s
strategic direction. Prior to joining Avilar, Chris was the
Director of Leadership and Professional Development at
Magellan Health Services, has also worked as a Senior Training
Consultant for the US Senate, Director of Training and
Performance Management at University Physicians, Inc. and has
worked as an independent Organizational Development and
Training Consultant
Her portfolio of workforce development initiatives
includes establishment of both human resource and learning
departments, implementation of a competency-based
pay-for-performance program, development of a formal internal
mentoring program, and competency-based talent selection
processes. Chris has also served on the board of directors of
the Maryland Chapter of the American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD), and recently completed a term as President
of the chapter.
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