Join Avilar for a
Competency Management Breakfast in
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Competency
Management: At the Heart of Talent
Management
Why Winning Talent
Management Initiatives Begin with a Solid Competency
Management Foundation
WHEN
Wednesday, October 10th
8:30am - 10:30am
WHERE Courtyard Marriot
Convention Center, 900 F ST NW, Washington
DC
Join workforce solutions consultant and
competency management expert Christine Hipple as she
demonstrates how competency management is the common thread
between today's most pressing talent management
initiatives.
To help start attendees' journey to a successful
competency management initiative, Chris will outline the ACUTE
approach to competency management. The ACUTE approach,
developed by Chris as a practical guide to and successful
competency management program, consists of:
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Align with organizational objectives
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Create a model and infrastructure
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Use competency management in a small but
valuable initiative
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Track your progress
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Expand to other areas
Listen as Chris shares case studies to support
and explain how a wide range of organizations has used this
approach with success. Throughout the presentation attendees
will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in
the discussion. Leave the event with:
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A top-down view of a competency management
initiative
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Examples of how real organizations have used
a competency-based approach to such talent management
initiatives as staffing, development planning, performance
management, career planning and succession management
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Ideas on how to initiate or continue a
competency management program at your organization
The breakfast session will include informal
networking, the competency management presentation and ample
opportunities for discussion.
Contact
Avilar: For more information on the workshop or to
reserve your space, please contact David Galvin at
205.437.9320 or at galvin@avilar.com. |
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Avilar Launches New Version of
WebMentor Learning Management System
Avilar is pleased to
announce the release of WebMentor Learning
Management System (LMS) Version 6.0. The new version
helps our customers better manage blended
learning curricula and perform detailed analysis of
course completion and training certification.
"The new WebMentor LMS
6.0 greatly improves the capability of our customers and
partners to deliver and manage blended training," notes
John Skowlund, Avilar's Chief Executive Officer. "The
increased flexibility of the user interface allows
customers to tailor the system to their specific needs
and the enhanced reporting capabilities improve their
ability to measure the ROI of training."
The new version of
WebMentor LMS improves management of e-learning and
instructor-led training. Instructors can
schedule classroom events, track attendance and post
assignments and course documents on-line. Learners can
download assignments and documents and upload completed
assignment to the instructor. Learning curricula can
support blended learning with events from e-learning,
classroom training and independent assignments. Version
6.0 also features improved certificate management
allowing administrators to generate, manage and reprint
certificates for e-learning and instructor-led
training.
With the advanced
reporting system in WebMentor LMS Version 6.0,
administrators have an improved ability to monitor and
report training completion. Reports have drill down and
sorting capabilities for improved analysis and reports
can be exported in PDF and Excel formats. Avilar has also
extended the ability to integrate WebMentor LMS with
other Human Resource Information Systems with the
support of web services for such tasks as learner
enrollment and course registration.
"The enhancements in
WebMentor LMS 6.0 were driven primarily by customer
feedback," said Mr. Skowlund. "It is important that we
continue to expand our learning technology to better
help our customers in developing their employees to meet
their
organizational goals."
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To learn more, please visit www.avilar.com.
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Competency Management Webinar
Series
Join Avilar's Director of Workforce
Solutions Christine Hipple for a series of competency
management webinars.
Creating Two-way
Communication Pathways with All Your
Stakeholders Tuesday, October 30th 1pm
EST
It's always true; if you don't send the
right message, you'll receive the wrong results.
Competency management projects are no exception. You've
managed to receive managerial buy-in, created an
outstanding competency model, put a competency
management system in place, and had all the right people
sign off on your revolutionizing competency management
initiative. Now you're ready to spread the good news.
Here's where all your hard work pays off - or is it? How
you communicate a competency management project to your
organization can either lead to fantastic results or
stop your project dead in its tracks with little hope of
recovery. Join Christine Hipple, Avilar's Director of
Workforce Solutions, as she details the right and wrong
ways to project your competency management initiative at
your organization. Chris will list some methods to
emulate, as well as highlight many of the common
communication plan mistakes. Don't let a poor
communication strategy stop your competency management
project! Register for this
webinar
Automating Individual
Development Planning: How Competency Management
Streamlines Training Efforts and Promotes Career
Planning Tuesday, December 11th 1pm
EST
What is individual development planning
and why do so few organizations do it well? How can
competency management ensure that people have the
capabilities for their current jobs? How does career
planning fit into the picture? How should development
planning and performance management be integrated? What
are the benefits of automating development planning
compared with decentralized or paper-and-pencil systems?
Join us to learn the answers to the above questions and
find out how this one competency- based initiative will
bring your organizations numerous benefits. Register for this
webinar |
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Avilar Events
Avilar will be present
at the following conferences:
HR Technology
Conference & Exposition Chicago,
IL October 10-12, 2007
Contact Avilar for Free Expo
Pass
SHRM Southeast HR
Conference Atlanta, GA June 15-16,
2007
Elliot Masie's Learning
2007
Orlando, FL
Oct. 21 - 24, 2007
Avilar Presents:
Competency Models that WORK Workshops
Columbia, MD
November 7th, 2007
Washington, DC
December 5th, 2007
Competency
Management Breakfast
For more information on any of
the listed events, please contact David Galvin,
galvin@avilar.com. |
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Competency Management Industry
News
7 Steps to Run Training Like a
Business by Josh Bersin
This article featured in eLearning!
Magazine provides seven steps on how to develop a
strategic planning process for training thereby changing
training into a strategic part of the organization. When Bersin
& Associates asked training managers where they had
operational plans for their training organizations, only
39% responded positively. That 39% rated
themselves three time for effective than the rest. As Bersin
writes, "If you don't have a roadmap, you will never
know when you arrive at your destination." For the seven
steps, read the full
article.
IBM's Approach to Encourage Individual
Learning
This Workforce Management article reviews
IBM's announcement to establish individual training and
education accounts for employees with at least five
years of service.
One of the account benefits includes a
401(k)-style matching of up to $1,000 annually for
education expenses. A second piece of
the program, the leadership component, joins global IBM
staff on projects to solve problems in developing
countries in partnership with nongovernmental
agencies.
The last piece helps IBM employees find
employment when they leave the company. Chief Executive
Samuel J. Palmisano says of the program, "We've set off
down the path of empowering and enabling our people to
make decisions and to act. We call this
lowering the center of gravity of the company... pushing
decision-making authority out and down." Read the
full
article. |
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