Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Skills and competency models are social things, they should not be built by experts in isolation One reason skill and competency models get a bad name is that they are...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Many people in HR are feeling beaten up by competency models, let’s fix this I was recently in a meeting with the VP for people (a much better title than...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Our Competency Modelling module is ready. We are working with a few early adopters of our technology, observing and learning from subject matter experts...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile “Are you listening? Yes, I hear you…” Right, that’s exactly what often happens. I will ask again, are you listening? What is the difference...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Top image: Heroic Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 – by Frédéric Chopin found on Reddit. This summer, I took a train across Poland, and...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Reporting on the ‘Values and Competency Models’ survey A few months ago, one of our best customers asked us if and how organizational values should be part of a...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Top image: The pier in the winter, Sopot, Poland. Photo by: Andrzej Otrębski I grew up a few hundred meters from a white sandy...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Values are an important shaper of organizational culture. Should they be part of a competency model? An organization’s mission and values are one reason we choose where we work....
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Brandon Hall Group is a leading research and analyst firm focused on human capital management. They have recently launched a survey on Competencies and Skills Development. You can take...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Competency models are a powerful way to organize jobs, roles and skills. They can be used as a lens to get insights into the skills in an organization (or...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Skill profiles, competency models, all rely on skills and skill definitions. This raises a critical question though, who gets to define a skill? To answer this question we need...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Skill management systems like TeamFit rely a lot on words. They are full of skill names, categories, descriptions and other words. But can a word ever really capture the...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Carlo Rovelli in his book Reality is not what it seems takes the reader to the ancient times and writes “…...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. In 2018, we saw increased emphasis on skill and competency management as a central aspect of the talent management puzzle. There were important product announcements from leading vendors including...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: The Lascaux Cave, Vezere Valley, France. “To be a master of metaphor,” Aristotle wrote in his Poetics, “is the...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: James Joyce statue in Trieste, the city where Joyce spent more than 15 years. The statue is the work of...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. For the past two decades or so I have kept detailed records of what I have been learning and how I have been putting it to use. I use...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. There has been a growing interest in competency models and their applications over the past few years. Companies understand that they need to manage and support their most important...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. A well-respected book on competency management defines competency models as “a descriptive tool that identifies the skills, knowledge, personal characteristics and behaviours needed to perform a role effectively in...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit “The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation. The hole connects one side to the other, making...
Lee Iverson is the CTO at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit. Competency models are designed to describe what is required to perform a particular job or role within an organization. HR departments often take...
Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Top image: The Auxiliary Territorial Service in the United Kingdom 1939 – 1945. ATS officers-in-training man a searchlight in Western Command, 28...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. At TeamFit, we see competency models from two or three different companies a month. In almost all cases, a great deal of thought, even passion, has been put into...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Many people think of their careers as a series of roles. We get a job, build skills, and then parlay those skills into a new role; hopefully, one with...