The Avilar Competency Model

A Competency Model or Skills Dictionary to Support Skill Assessments Within Your Organization

Avilar competency consultants based the Avilar Competency Model on decades of work with organizations of all types and sizes. The skills dictionary contains over 350 skills clustered in more than 50 skill groups. Work with Avilar consultants to create your own customized competency model from skill sets such as:

About the Model

The Avilar Competency Model can be used as is or customized to the specific needs of your organization. Based on best practice research, the model contains three parts.

Professional Skills
The professional skill set includes the knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics that employees at all levels need to be successful regardless of technical or job related expertise. This set includes emotional intelligence skills such as self-awareness, self management and relationship management which have repeatedly shown significant impact on job success.

Leadership Skills
The leadership skill set includes the knowledge, abilities and other characteristics needed by managers and leaders at all levels of the organization. Performance management, project management, team leadership and application of business acumen are examples of these skills.

Occupational Skills
Several occupational skill sets include job specific knowledge, abilities and skills needed in such fields as human resource management, learning and development, finance, customer service, manufacturing, sales and marketing.

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Applications

Competency management is the foundation for nearly all workforce development initiatives. Defining competency models for your organization, assessing skill levels through skill assessments and then analyzing gaps provides the essential information for strategic planning for training, staffing, performance management, and succession planning. With a solid competency model to define and integrate all workforce planning and management, an organization can tackle numerous initiatives such as:

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Consulting

Avilar’s team of competency management consultants are ready to assist your organization in the development of your unique competency model or the customization, validation and integration of the Avilar Competency Model or other models. With decades of experience across varying sectors in organizations from 50 to over 100,000 employees, Avilar’s team is prepared to guide you through all stages of your competency management project. Examples of consulting work include:

• Development of skills dictionaries and profiles
• Customization of the Avilar Competency Model to fit specific cultural, language and skill sets of your organization
• External research and benchmarking
• Internal surveys, focus groups, interviews and job task analysis
• Model validation
• Integration of existing models into a single model

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Workshops

If you, or your team, are in need of a more thorough understanding of competency management and competency models, Avilar workshops may be a good place to start. The Competency Models that WORK Workshops are designed to help you develop a cost-effective competency model that will be the foundation for your success. The complex process will be broken into a practical set of specific actions you can take to make this process work for you. You’ll come away with an action plan customized for your organization that will help you drive results. You may attend a scheduled workshop or schedule one exclusively for members of your organization. For more information on Avilar workshops, please visit the Workshop page. To speak to an Avilar representative about Avilar workshops, please click:

System Compatibility

The Avilar Competency Model is available to use manually or can be integrated into an automated competency management system. For more information on system compatibility, please click: . For information on Avilar’s competency management system, WebMentor Skills, please click here.

Contact Avilar

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