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7 Ways the U.S. OPM Competency Models Can Support Your Workforce Planning

AvilarHR

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) publicly shares its Competency Models. Here’s how the OPM competency models can support your workforce planning. And managing workforce skills and competencies is essential for workforce planning. What are the OPM Competency Models?

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Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation

Conversation Matters

GM was brought down by a flawed strategy, but an organization’s strategy is clearly a product of the knowledge that exists within its walls. The knowledge existed within GM to develop a more competitive strategy. To date, Knowledge Management has primarily been in the service of cost cutting or its twin, time saving.

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Identifying skills gaps and how to prepare for the unpredictable

Bob

Skills gap analyses can also help you predict various possible scenarios and close skills gaps swiftly–before they affect your productivity and achievement of strategic goals. That will keep you on the right path toward achieving your strategic goals and building strong, happy, and productive teams. Step one: Identify your needs.

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Improving Knowledge Worker Productivity

Conversation Matters

As Knowledge Management professionals our job is the help organizations leverage their knowledge. Our attention is focused on the knowledge worker and our major task is to devise ways for those knowledge workers to share the knowledge they have gained with their peers.

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Organizational Learning Strategy: The What, Why and How

Analytics in HR

Organizational learning is a broad topic; it can cover areas such as product-market fit, your ideal client, or product development. There are three key results to organizational learning: Knowledge creation – Recognizing new insights into the organization. Your customers are leaving because your product is not easy to use.

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Workers are looking – and leaving – for career development

HR Morning

Turnover costs include hiring, onboarding, training, ramp time to peak productivity, decreased engagement by remaining workers, higher business error rates, and general culture impacts. Institutional knowledge/Knowledge management. Leadership development. Career development coaching.

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3 Big Knowledge Gaps in STEM Workforces

ATD Human Capital

In a recent APQC survey of more than 750 technical and engineering, knowledge management, learning, and talent management professionals, more than half ranked STEM competency and expertise development as an urgent or significant priority for their leadership. Developing Experts. Bringing Newcomers Up to Speed.