Competency Mapping and Assessment
Competency Mapping and Assessment Case Study In a manufacturing environment, effective maintenance teams are critical to overall success. Our client, a multi-national food and grocery manufacturing entity with operations across North America, was experiencing significant difficulty filling open positions for maintenance technicians, resulting in high overtime costs, employee dissatisfaction and burnout, and maintenance productivity issues…
Rapid Skilling
When competency development is deliberate rather than a happy accident, there are significant knock-on benefits Our client- a small chemical manufacturing company – had a problem: lots of staff turnover, coupled with significant workforce fluctuations throughout the year (and subsequent use of temporary/contract staff) was leading to inconsistent results and poor performance on key operating…
Leadership
Front-line leaders are critical to maintaining high standards for safety, quality, productivity and cost. Our client – a multi-plant manufacturing corporation- was experiencing uneven and inconsistent results, which hurt profitability and competitiveness. Initial diagnostics and worker feedback pointed to wide differences in the skills and capabilities of front-line supervisors as a probable contributing factor. We…
Competency-Based Recruiting
As a senior leader in your organization, you know the importance of finding and hiring the right people. Your employees are the lifeblood of your company and can make or break your success. Yet so few companies are taking full advantage of a recruiting process that is not only faster and more effective, but also…
Jeff Griffiths appointed to Board of Directors for LearningCITY Collective
Our co-founder Jeff Griffiths has been selected to the inaugural Board of Directors for the Calgary “LearningCITY Collective” – a unique initiative to create a truly vibrant and rich learning culture in Calgary that includes all forms of learning: formal, informal and experiential, credited and non-credited, from all aspects of the learning ecosystem – school,…
Managing Risk:The Tale (or is that tail?) of the Loaded Skunk.
In one of my other incarnations, I’m a volunteer at the Rockyview Wildlife Recovery Centre (www.rockyviewwildlife.org). One of many wonderful things about interacting with wild animals at RWR is the lessons we can learn from the experience. The other night, I was finishing my shift, feeding the last of a menagerie of orphaned baby hares,…
Did Knowledge Work Just Have Its “Pond Half Full” Moment?
What do you mean by “Pond Half Full?” For those who haven’t been paying attention, ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative language chatbot was released for free public use in November of last year. (if you haven’t had a chance to experiment with it yet, you should: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ ). The system has been developed and ‘trained’ to hold…
Defining Competency for Professions
Jeff Griffiths, FCMC CTDP Profession: An occupation in which a professed knowledge of some subject, field, or science is applied; a vocation or career, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification. – Oxford English Dictionary Creating competency frameworks and competency models is an evolving field that has gained greater prominence over the…
