competency-based learning

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 [...]

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 Succession planning is the process in which valuable insights, knowledge, and skills are captured from outgoing employees and shared [...]

Written by Patrick Allen – Vice President, Strategy & Development Lots of people understand the term ‘competency‘ and have an understanding of what it means. The general [...]

I am seeing a lot more interest lately in competency-based training for educational institutions and the workplace. People often ask me to explain competency-based training. If you would like a [...]

  Discussions about employee performance are often looked upon with dread by managers and employees alike. But this does not need to be so. Competency maps provide the basis for conducting [...]