{"id":1098,"date":"2009-09-28T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2009-09-16T06:25:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T14:25:43","slug":"competencies-versus-critical-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Competencies versus Critical Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">We\u2019ve been talking about competencies for a while.<span> <\/span>Yeah, I know what they are, I know how they get implemented into a talent system, and I even know how they are integrated into critical talent processes.<span> <\/span>But you know what\u2026 I still don\u2019t get it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">We talk about competencies, but when we really get down to the interesting topics in talent management like how our talent interacts with each other to collaborate and innovate, we no longer care about those competencies.<span> <\/span>We start talking about the experiences they have and the knowledge they can bring to the table.<span> <\/span>When we staff cross-functional projects, we don\u2019t look at the competencies, we look at valuable experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">We talk about competencies, but when we talk about executive development and succession planning, we talk about critical experiences.<span> <\/span>We look at our possible successor and see if they were deployed in more than two countries as an expat.<span> <\/span>We look and see if they made the round through finance.<span> <\/span>Again, we look at the experiences they had, and not the competencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">We talk about the vision of competencies and how we\u2019ll eventually staff to a specific desired amount of certain competencies in future models of workforce planning, but honestly, we\u2019re already ignoring them before we even get close to that future state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">I know there are a lot of really good talent people out there and perhaps I\u2019m not one of them.<span> <\/span>Someone tell me if this competency thing is over yet, because you know what, if it\u2019s not over, maybe it should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">I still don\u2019t get it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been talking about competencies for a while. Yeah, I know what they are, I know how they get implemented into a talent system, and I even know how they are integrated into critical talent processes. But you know what\u2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talent-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}