Skills and their competencies are at the heart of the WorkforceAI methods. Employees basically bring their skills to the tasks assigned to them in the organization. Competencies can wane with time.
The WorkforceAI method uses a team approach to monitor the competency of every skill a team member possesses.
Skills Grading
This unique method offers a simple way for team managers to set goals, review and refine skill competencies during regular one-on-one performance reviews. The process ensures that skills and related competencies data are always current and accurate.
Based on the requirements of the tasks and the technology strategy of the unit, skills are organized into categories, grouped into hard skills and soft skills and also graded as critical, core, important or other.
With this primary data, the need for up-skilling and re-skilling of team members can be quickly determined.
Skills Gaps
Skills have a shelf life. As new technologies emerge, skills can become outdated and the need for new skills arises. By incorporating new skills , comparing the competency goals for each team member, and comparing with that of the requirements, enables the accurate identification of skills gaps.
This then forms the basis for determining skills gaps in the team and the entire organization.
Skills Inventory
A skills inventory is essential for any organization to plan the way ahead. Having this data readily at hand enables the generation of the skills inventory of the team, the branch as well as the entire organization.
Skills and Technology Strategy
Having an accurate skills inventory that is always current enables senior decision-makers in the organization to determine a better technology strategy for the business. This in turn sets the direction for the other managers to determine a strategy that is based on that of the business. The cycle repeats as change impacts the business of the organization.
Skills-Ready
By adopting the above process, the organization will be able to maintain teams that are always ready to handle change as new technologies emerge!