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What comes to mind with mention of the term “succession planning”? Depending on your situation, it raises a lot of different scenarios. For small business owners, it is concern about who will [...]

What is a competency profile? Let’s start at the beginning by first defining the term “Competence”. “Competence” is the capability to apply a set of related knowledge, skills, and abilities [...]

Welcome to the course. Over the next few weeks you will receive a series of four email lessons that will explain how technical competencies can improve organizational performance. The course is [...]

I recently hired an HVAC repair technician to come to my home to work on my faulty air conditioning. The entire experience from the doorbell ringing to paying the bill was satisfying. The problem [...]

Recently, the Canada West Foundation published an article titled, “Beyond the Rules: Moving Safety from Compliance to Competence.” The argument for implementation of competencies to develop a [...]

To meet the diverse needs of our clientele, The Competency Group offers three kinds of consulting services: 1> Organizational design, streamlining, and enhancement of workplace efficiency  [...]

This blog post will look upon a recent CBC article that speaks about how competencies are different from credentials and provide a basis for why implementing a competency-based HR strategy will [...]

Imagine you are new to an organization or role. Do you know what is expected of you? Do you know how management decides if you’re doing a good job?  One of the most difficult things employees [...]

by Patrick Allen, Vice President of Strategy and Development We live in an empirical society.  What this means is that we use numbers in relation to specific concepts which are valued for [...]

by Patrick Allen, Vice President of Strategy and Development Why Functional Competencies Make Sense for Your Business  Philosophically, functional competencies make sense. This is [...]