Competencies

An overview of Competencies and how to use, add and manage them.

Competencies are demonstrable skills that one possesses inherently. Competencies include abilities and behaviors, as well as knowledge of the fundamental use of a skill.

For Administrators

Administrators configure Competency categories (Administration icon >> Global Settings >> Your Organization >> Competencies) that employees and managers will chose from when selecting competencies. Administrators can edit categories, activate/deactivate categories, add new categories, and add new competencies within categories (On the Competencies Category screen >> Click Add a New Competency).

For Employees and Managers

Competencies can either be self-nominated by an employee, or earned through a job position, an appraisal, or a project team.

About Self-nominated Competencies

You self-nominate a competency by adding it to your Total Talent Profile (On the Overview tab, Competencies section). After self-nominating, the competencies display on the Total Talent Profile with an Approval Date of Awaiting Approval, and are immediately added to the Competencies Gained table on the Competency Profile screen. Your manager must approve each competency on the Competencies screen.

About Earned Competencies

Managers can acknowledge an employee's competencies by adding competencies via a job position, an appraisal, or a project team. For example, on the Project Team screen for a particular project team (Employees>>My Employees>>Project Teams>>Select Edit from the Actions menu for a particular project team), a manager can select Competency Types and Competencies Gained for the Project Team members.