Competency

In my last post, we discussed the reasons why the term “competency assessment” strikes fear into the hearts of project managers, and began to lay out a five-step plan for overcoming these fears. Let’s continue:

STEP THREE:  Establish a Baseline. A competency assessment helps to tell us what you already know, so we don’t waste your time and our money. Competency assessment helps identify the strengths, opportunities and challenges that leads to targeted training solutions. Baselines also help to establish where you are and where you are going.

When you first mention competency assessment, fear can spread throughout the team:  Why are they measuring competency? What if I don’t measure up?  What should I do to prepare?  What will happen to me if I am NOT competent?

Because I’m already familiar with a good deal of the content presented in our Webinars, it’s the interactive portions of the program – the polls and questions from participants – that always hold the most interest for me.

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