Our new competency tracking system contains the ability to monitor competencies against both your job roles and your employees.
Within HRWize, you will now be able to create a library of competencies and allocate them each of the job roles within your organization. Job role competencies are then scored between 1 and 5 (low to high) and measured against employee competencies (also scored between 1 and 5). The scores are then displayed within a spider diagram to enable you to identify any development gaps between your required job role competencies and the employees' actual competency scores.
How will tracking competencies help my business?
- Identify development gaps - Competency tracking will allow you to identify any development gaps between your required competency ratings and the actual rating of the individual employee. Once this gap has been identified, as a manager you can take steps to improve the employee's particular skills to move them closer to the required rating.
- Aid succession planning - When it comes to succession planning, knowing the competencies of a particular employee can make a real difference when it comes to promoting the right person. Measuring actual employee competencies against job requirements is a great way to ensure that the best person for the job progresses - This is also a great tool to use alongside our 9-box grid.
- Recognize employee strengths - As a manager, you need to be aware of your employees' strengths and weaknesses. By tracking their competencies, it becomes easy to identify the specific skill sets where particular employees excel which will allow you to play to their strengths when setting goals or tasks.
How to set up competencies within HRWize
To set up competencies within HRWize, there are a number of steps that you must follow.
Step 1 - Create a Library of Competencies
- Go to Administration > HR > Data management > Competencies
- Select 'Add' to add the competencies which you wish to track. Repeat this until you have a full list of all the competencies that you wish to allocate to both the job role and individual employee. Click here for some ideas you can add.
Step 2 - Allocate competencies from the library to Job Roles
- Go to Administration > HR > Data Management > Job Roles
- Select the 'Pencil' icon to edit an existing job role. You can only add competencies to existing job roles if you are adding a new job role you must create the role first and add the competencies afterward.
- Select 'Add' to add a new competency and required rating to this job role.
- Select Submit at the bottom of the page when all of these competencies are added.
Step 3 - Allocate individual employee competencies
- Go to People > Employees and select the employee card of the particular employee who's competencies you wish to update.
- Select the 'Competencies' tab at the bottom of the employee card.
- Select 'Add' to add an employee competency, rating, and an optional comment.
- Once you have added all of the competencies, refresh the page. This will update the required role table and spider diagram to show the employee ratings against the required job role ratings.
Adjusting the Competencies scale
By default, the numerical scale for competency ratings will be 1-5. Administrators have the option to adjust this by going to:
Administration > Company > Settings > Company Settings
Under Performance management, there is an option entitled "Competency rating scale". Using this field, you can adjust the numerical scale using different options.
Displaying Competency ratings and spider chart to employees
Competency ratings and the spider chart can be made available for employees to view within their self-service accounts. As an administrator, you will need to go to:
Administration > Company > Settings > Display Settings
Under Employee views, you will need to set the Competency chart visible to employees field to 'Yes'.
Employees can then view this information within:
Self Service > My development > My competencies
Employee's viewing or updating competencies
There is also the option to allow employees to view only or view and update their competencies within self-service. To enable this, go to:
Administration > Company > Settings > Display Settings
Scroll down to the Employee views" section and adjust the Competency chart visible to employees field to reflect the change.
Once submitted, if you go to:
Self-service > My development
An option will appear entitled "My competencies" allowing the employee to view and/or update their competency ratings from within their account.
Disabling Competencies
The option for competencies and development can be disabled within the system. This will not affect the data you have created for these modules but will remove it from display until it is enabled again. This can be found via:
Administration > Company > Settings > Display Settings
From here, go to the "Performance Module" section. There will be tick boxes that determine whether the particular module is visible to employees. Simply untick the box, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click ‘Submit’ and the modules will be hidden from the display.
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