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Category Archives: Competencies

Slides from Serious Games for Human Capital Management

I was really pleased with last week’s webinar on serious games. The application of game technology and “game mechanics” to human capital management purposes at first seems to be a new and radical departure from conventional practices. However, I think in some sense it represents technology catching up with tried and true training and performance [...]

Talent Management System Provisioning: Part 1

I plan on making a few posts on the topic of “talent management system provisioning.” I want to cover the topic at a high-level before focusing on integration of competency content and other details.
Here, I’m using “talent management system” to refer to integrated TM suites as well as discrete TM components, such as performance management, [...]

Competencies, Miracles, and Fear

Someone just asked me to review what the 3.0 library has related to competencies, so I thought I’d write a post as I’m sure others are interested. I also will offer a related opinion or two based on some discussions at last week’s HR-XML Partnering and Integration Summit.
There is quite a lot that is [...]

Zapaterismo On Making Competencies Work

I recently came across a series of posts about competencies on Zapaterismo, a blog written by a gentleman with a good deal of experience in the competency management field. Basically, the gist of the series is that competencies currently are too much work, but that they can be made much easier with the application of [...]

Tapping into Competencies with hResume and a Wikipedia of Skills

This is the last post in my recent hResume series. Actually, this post is not so much about hResumes as it is about whether the growing use of online profiles and the phenomena of social networking might be a reason to take a new look at how competency content is managed.
Again, I’ll reference [...]