What is the most valuable part of any organization? The employees of course. But how can you make sure that they grow in their jobs and reach their highest potential? A good place to start is managing their skills, competencies, and training in one digital platform. The ultimate benefit: you can focus less on paperwork and more on your people.

Step 1: Map your employees’ skills

Every person has his or her unique skillset. As an organization, you want to tap into those skills as best as you can. Competence Management is one of the best ways to do that.

Competence management essentially aligns people’s competencies and skills with business strategies and goals. It’s a process that starts in the recruitment phase: you look for people with the right skills or competencies to fill the gaps in your organization. Once employed, it’s a case of continuous improvement and empowerment to build on these skills with the right tools and training.

With all these skills, training, and competencies, it’s fundamental that you find a good way to keep track of everyone’s profile and needs.

Step 2: Introduce training to let people flourish

Once you have identified the skills and competencies of your employees, it’s important that you help them hone these by offering training. Rather than randomly pushing training onto your team, you need to find a way to efficiently keep track of their courses and progress.

By offering training, you can make your people flourish in their jobs. Besides improving existing skills, it’s an excellent way to develop new ones. To not let it all be in vain, it’s fundamental you introduce easy follow-up and reporting: how many hours were spent on the courses? Per department? Per topic?

With a good overview of who followed which training and what they gained from that, your competence management efforts will be more organized and efficient.

Step 3: Put the right people together and watch the magic happen

When you are aware of which skills and competencies are present in your company, you can combine people with complementary skillsets into well-functioning teams. Complementary teams drive production efficiency and operational excellence.

Every person is different. By putting them together with people with different skillsets, you make sure that every employee can become the best version of themselves. They will be able to rely on teammates who have different strengths and will be able to help others with their own.

Of course, you need a streamlined way to match people into well-functioning teams. If you lose the overview of who is capable of what and who is teamed up with whom for which tasks, you will lose the efficiency you hoped to create.

How to efficiently manage skills and competencies: go digital

The best way to manage all the competencies and skills levels of your employees is with a digital Competence Management solution. Add the possibility to link specific training tracks and you get powerful software that allows you to focus more on people and less on paperwork.

Effective and automated competence management creates a real-time and predictive inventory of the capability of any workforce. It’s designed to keep track of all the different skills required for a plant.

The main advantages for you and your people are:

• A centralized overview of all data connected to a certain employee. Functions, levels, hire date, and skills are linked to the user’s profile.
• Different types of training can be registered and followed-up
• Easy reporting on training tracks. You can keep track of hours spent on training per department, person, or topic.
• Safely and effectively managed workflow. This maximizes productivity and ensures workforce capability.

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You can find more detailed information about TenForce Competence Management on this page.

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