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WebMentor Skills™

Improve Workforce Performance

Develop core competencies, from leadership skills to sales competencies

In today’s competitive environment, it is essential to maximize workforce performance. Avilar’s WebMentor Skills competency management system enables you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your workforce and take action to improve performance and empower employees to develop their skills.

The key to improving the performance of your organization is ensuring that your workforce has the skills and knowledge they need to achieve your organization’s goals. Use a competency-based skills assessment to identify gaps in skills and knowledge that diminish the performance and overall potential of an organization. Understanding the current competencies of your workforce is critical for improving the performance of your organization.

Most Popular Features & Benefits

With WebMentor Skills, you can easily develop and administer competency assessments, analyze skills gaps and drive workforce development improvements.

1. Define your competency model.
2. Assess your employees’ skills.
3. Analyze the skills inventory and individual and organizational skill gaps.
4. Take action on the skills data to achieve a number of critical talent management objectives.

Some Benefits of Using a Competency Management System

Identify Tomorrow’s Leaders

• Inventory critical skills of key leadership roles and identify high potential candidates for succession development
• Discover employees skills and current proficiencies
• Develop employees to fit succession needs
• As an example, deliver a leadership skills assessment to identify gaps in leadership competencies

Align Training with Strategic Goals

• Ensure your learning programs are on target by creating Individual Development Plans (IDPs) based on each individual’s job expectations and proficiency level
• Develop training strategy and career plans
• Develop and retain good employees and maximize their productivity
• Create department development plans and track educational progress

Build Better Project Teams

• Define requirements of a project in terms of skills, roles and resource investments and pinpoint those employees whose skills best match those requirements
• Pinpoint those employees whose skill levels best match those requirements of your choice, be it management competencies based on a management skills assessment or sales competencies based on a sales skills assessment
• Build the right project teams quickly and minimize risks and costs

Identify Critical Skill Gaps

• Reduce risk by identifying critical skills that need improvement
• Ensure proper training for certifications
• Create selection criteria and tools based on skills and behaviors required for success
• Identify skill gaps on an individual and organizational basis
• Find the best and most cost-effective way to close skill gaps
• List core competencies
• Optimize the use of your training resources
• Efficiently plan when to train, recruit or outsource to gain the needed skills

Optimize Your Workforce / Performance Management

• Improve ROI by providing the right training at the right time
• Measure and monitor individual performance and progress and ensure alignment with organizational goals
• Discover employee skills and current proficiencies
• Determine departments’ and organization’s strengths and weaknesses
• Empower employees to create and manage Individual Development Plans

Prepare for the Unexpected

• Use competency data to support staffing forecasts, enable succession planning and prepare for disasters
• Create disaster scenarios for the redeployment of critical skills
• Identify critical skills during a disaster and prepare your workforce in advance

Plan for Succession / Retiring Workforce

• Determine if departing employees' positions are still critical to the Organization's success
• Identify the skills that the departing employees possess
• Identify who among the remaining workforce (if any) would make the best replacements
• Develop the replacement employees' most critical skills

Rapid Deployment / Hosted or Licensed

Your WebMentor Skills system can be up and running in as little as one day on Avilar's servers using our powerful Application Service Provider (ASP) hosting environment. Customers who prefer to install and run the application on their own in-house servers may also license the application. Avilar supports both deployment models.