Worksheet for Planning a Competency Modeling Project

The key steps in planning a project to develop competency models and competency-base applications are:

• Conducting a stakeholder analysis, identifying the people in the organization who have the most at stake in the development and implementation of competency models, and determining how and when they should be involved.
• Preparing a draft project plan
• Holding initial project planning meeting with project team to:
  • Review and revise draft project plan
  • Develop detailed plan with timeline and assigned responsibilities
  • Identify and agree on participants needed for each data collection activity
• Creating and implementing a communication plan for people directly involved in the project and for all employees.

WORKSHEET FOR PLANNING A COMPETENCY MODELING PROJECT

This is a helpful checklist of key questions and issues related to the key steps that need to be addressed when launching a model-building project. It includes these sections.

1. Scope of the Project
2. Organizational Context
3. Selecting the Approach to Model Building
4. Building Support for the Project
5. Deciding on Data Sources
6. Staffing the Model Building Project
7. Envisioning the Data Analysis and Model Building
8. Reviewing and Revising the Model

In working through this worksheet, you may find that some questions are difficult to answer without a better understanding of areas such as the methodology for data gathering, data analysis and model building, and developing HR applications based on competency models. This information is covered in steps 3-6 of the six-step process that is used in our consulting practice and taught in our Building Competency Models workshop. It can also be found in the Resources & Support section of the Workitect website. Additional self-instruction material is included in Workitect’s quick start Building a Basic Model program that is available to licensees of the Workitect Competency Dictionary.