Competency models are the critical lens to see if the skills of your workforce align with your current and future needs. Ibbaka is committed to making it easy for you to build and apply competency. models. Here are two tools you can use, a simple one for your basic needs and one that you can use to design a full competency model. These are offered to you for free under a Creative Commons license.

Sometimes a very simple model is all that is needed. And paring a model down to its essentials can reveal what really matters. Here are two simple approaches to a skill and competency model. For general behaviors, relevant across your organization, use just behaviors and skills. For new capabilities, that you want to cultivate, use roles and skills. If you want to connect these to learning and development, add learning resources.

The future of work will be more like a braid than a staircase. We will overlap different roles to build our careers. Some roles will be part of formal jobs, other roles will on teams and some roles will be informal. How do we prepare ourselves to succeed in this new world.

Once upon a time, work was organized in terms of jobs and the job architecture governed the organization. This model is failing. Careers today are woven together from a series of overlapping roles, braided together into a stream of continued learning and development. It is how we perform our multiple roles that drives performance.

When you meet a new person what do you ask first? Most often we start by asking what they do. Maybe we should start by understanding each other's values.

Knowledge work, unlike industrial work does not rely on a series of repeatable tasks, rather it is reliant on challenges to address, and goals to achieve. How does work change if we all think of it as a portfolio of projects? Let's explore this topic

As companies become more customer-centric they need to evolve the skills of their workforce. Layer skills onto the customer journey map to see the skill gaps.

The best way of connecting skills to roles is dynamic, with the skills bubbling up from actual work experiences and more than one skillset being accepted for any one role.

The Internet of Things is transforming industries, from manufacturing to transport and medical technology. What are the implications for job roles & skills?