ECI’s Foundation Study v. Google’s Project Oxygen to Identify High Performers

One of our associates passed along this New York Times article about Google’s Project Oxygen to me earlier this week.  Google wanted to identify the factors associated with high performing managers.   Being the experts they are with data analysis, they sliced and diced all of their performance review ratings and other anecdotal information to identify [...]

Understanding Competency Models

Competency Models form the foundation of all Talent Management systems.  They describe the skills, knowledge and abilities typically exhibited by successful performers and formulate a clear reference point from which to hire, manage and develop staff. For example, competencies serve as a benchmark in assessing an individual’s mastery of the key factors essential for success [...]

What is a Competency Model?

Competency Models form the foundation for all people systems.  They describe the behaviors typically exhibited by successful performers and formulate a clear reference from which to hire, manage and develop staff. For example, competencies serve as a benchmark in assessing an individual’s mastery of the skills, knowledge and abilities needed for success in a role.  [...]

Changing World of Competency Models

We’ve been preparing competency models for our clients for over 17 years.  As you recall, we define competency as skills, knowledge and abilities applied for a specific outcome.  Only when we understand what the real outcomes of performance are can we build complete models that really help people perform their best. Lately, we have been [...]

How Do You Build A Competency System? continued….

A critical aspect of constructing a Competency System is whether you have someone on site who can champion for the cause.  If your company is smaller in size, and you have an HR professional who understands the rudiments of competency construction, you may be able to create the system yourself with a bit of help [...]

How Do You Build a Competency System?

A lot of the people who visit our website want to know the answer to the question “How do you build a competency system?”  And of course the answer is, “It depends.”  The things that determine how to approach building a system are really pretty simple: How many people are in your organization?     100 or less, 200 [...]

Do Competency Systems Produce Real Results?

We recently did a study to see if a Competency System we built for a client produced any measurable results, or if it was just a “nice to have” system that management preferred to use.  Our client is within a large pharmaceutical company and leads a sales force which sells to institutions and hospital physicians.  The [...]