Assessments are an important part of work in skill and competencies. It is human nature to want to know how we are doing and to compare ourselves with others. Ibbaka has been doing research in this area and has just published a report of our findings.

Skills and competencies are both important to capability development. Skills are the more fundamental and granular construct, competencies can be thought of as clusters of skills in the context of behaviors, activities or tasks. Should you be assessing skills or competencies? We look at the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

There are emerging best practices in how to design and role out capability management systems that leverage skill and competency models. We summarize some of what we are learning in this presentation.

Around 2010 data analytics was a differentiating skill but over the past few years, it has become a widely shared core skill.

Differentiating skills are often hard to identify. They depend on the alternatives and must always be client in.

Differentiating skills are always relative to the alternative and specific to the problem being solved.

Creativity thrives on being able to give and receive critiques. Giving meaningful critique is a valuable skill.