Skills-based management is an approach that provides real and measurable benefits to the organization. It flows through the organization and contributes to the major constituencies of the business. That includes each individual employee, supervisors, training management, human resources, and senior and line management, by focusing on their specific human capital needs and obligations.

This affordable, fixed-price offering gives clients valuable input in whether or not they have a skills-based management process that provides a “chain” of information enabling appropriate participants to make informed decisions about employees. Examples of these types of employee decisions are: skills capabilities, recruitment of top performers, succession planning, resource management, career development, learning management, curriculum design, performance management and, most importantly, the organization’s ability to meet business goals. All of these decision point inputs are part of processes that are tied together to assure that the right skills exist in the organization and are maximized to meet the evolving requirements of the client.

Description

The Skills and Competency Management Rapid Review Assessment provides a fast and efficient assessment and evaluation of the current skills management process and IT support tools, which covers the following:

• An assessment and evaluation of the current skills management process
• An assessment and evaluation of the current skills management IT support tools
• An assessment and evaluation of the current skills library/content
• A gap analysis comparing the skills management process and it support tools to best practices

Our Experts have experience in creating and implementing skills-based management process solutions. Our team also has experience in performing skills management process assessments, designing enterprise skills support systems, career development programs, recruitment and talent search processes, resource pooling approaches, organization training and curriculum design, and executive coaching.

We partner with our clients to identify improvements in their skills management process, based on their goals and business requirements, and to educate their team in the process. We believe that this is important so our clients can take ownership for the recommendations, and are capable of making continual adjustments to the recommended roadmap as changing business needs demand.

Deliverables

Standard

Our offering delivers the following results:

• An assessment and evaluation of the current skills management process
• An assessment and evaluation of the current skills management IT support tools
• An assessment and evaluation of the current skills library/content
• A gap analysis comparing the skills management process and it support tools to best practices

Our Experts will deliver a detailed report that includes the above deliverables, and present the findings to our client’s management.

Work effort may be conducted on-site or off-site as follows:

• TAC will work with client’s appropriate staff to gather the information for review.
• Work effort is limited to two days for data gathering and one day for an interactive presentation of findings and recommendations.
• TAC assumes client has readily available access to skills content, or client will send to TAC within two business days upon request.
  • Should information not be readily available delays will occur.
• TAC will present findings and recommendations to client management within seven business days after receipt of all information/data from the client.

Optional

In addition to the deliverables listed above, we can assist clients in a more detailed full skills and competency assessment, and help to implement the approved initiatives. Some of the activities that included in a full assessment are:

• Assessment of eighteen industry-standard skills management best practices
• Measured value to various constituencies such as human resources, training management, employee and supervisor, etc.
• Recommended skills content additions
• Recommended skills management process improvements
• Role-based skills analysis and modeling
• Recruitment and talent-search process recommendations and/or design
• Recommendations for resource pooling approaches
• Career-development process recommendations and/or design
• Career pathing recommendations
• Recommendations for new or upgraded “skillware” IT tool suites

This assessment will assure the client that their talent investments yield the expected benefits. It will also improve talent alignment throughout the organization.

Target Audience

CEO, COO, CIO, CFO, Human Resource management
Executives responsible for talent strategy across the enterprise

About The Advisory Council

Founded in 2002, The Advisory Council (TAC) brings its unique Expertise-as-a-Service^® (EaaS™), the next logical step in the XaaS revolution, to the enterprise. The EaaS solution-delivery model gives clients access to TAC’s wide array of services, tools and workshops designed to help CIOs and IT managers reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase the status of IT in the boardroom. The EaaS mission is to provide first-hand, actionable information, advice, and expertise in the context of your specific IT organization. The TAC Expert Network provides clients on-demand access to one of the world’s largest vetted networks of practicing IT experts. With hundreds of CIOs, authors, patent holders, thought leaders, and independent consultants, TAC delivers the right answer to your question in the right context, “right now.”