Competency Mapping: How to Align Employee Skills with Company Goals

Competency mapping is a process that involves identifying and assessing the skills, knowledge, and abilities required for successful job performance within an organization. It helps in aligning individual competencies with the overall goals and objectives of the company. To embark on competency mapping, you can follow these steps:

1. Define the purpose and scope of the competency mapping initiative.
2. Identify the key competencies needed for various roles within the organization.
3. Develop competency frameworks or models that outline the desired skills and behaviors.
4. Assess and evaluate the existing competencies of employees through tools like assessments, interviews, or 360-degree feedback.
5. Identify competency gaps and develop strategies to bridge them through training, mentoring, or recruitment.
6. Implement the competency mapping process and monitor its effectiveness through regular reviews and updates.

If you need assistance with the steps involved in competency mapping, feel free to ask for help. Anu

Hi Anu,

Basically, competency is a technical term that refers to skill effectiveness. A person may have various skill sets, but applying them at the right time and place is competency.

For each product or service, the 'area' of the circle represents the value of its sales. The BCG Matrix thus offers a very useful 'map' of the organization's product (or service) strengths and weaknesses (at least in terms of current profitability) as well as the likely cash flows.

Competency mapping is based on the industry category (BCG matrix) and involves the following steps:
1. Identifying the skills (resources).
2. Categorizing the skills.
3. Identifying the need of the hour.
4. Finding the SWOT.
5. Planning the need and usage design of resources (4Ms).
6. Application.
7. Consistency of implementing the ideas.
8. Innovations and finding its risk/comfort.
9. Follow-ups.

Therefore, equipping the strategy and designing the work chart for the objective are the steps in competency mapping.

Dear Ramnath,

Thank you so much. Although I have read many articles on Change Management, an excess of knowledge tends to confuse me. I believe that is what happened to me. However, the way you explained it to me has really made things clear.

Thanks,
Anu :icon1: