PRACTICAL EXAMPLE 1:
Implementation of competency management at a high school, RSG Enkhuizen
RSG Enkhuizen has easily and quickly implemented competency profiles for education support personnel by means of COMPETENCYPROFILES.com. Deputy Principal Gerda de Jong:
‘Until now our interviews with employees were focusing on the quality of the duties to be performed and the required level of knowledge. As a result of introducing competencies, the behavior required in this regard gets a much more central position. This is not simple at first. Additionally, people in our region don’t easily talk about behavior. If they can, they’d rather say something in three words. That is why it is useful that the sample profiles of www.competencyprofiles.com describe concrete situations which are easily recognized by the people involved. I reviewed the sample profiles along with the previously established job description with the managers. Consequently, it was easy to determine the most important competencies for every job. I also gathered examples of behavior from the instruments of the website which could further simplify the interview.’
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE 2:
Working with competencies in the nursing home of Lauwershof
The nursing home of Lauwershof has been focusing on implementing competency management itself with the help of COMPETENCYPROFILES.com. Manager of Advice and Support Martin Bronkhorst:
‘We are currently in the middle of a process of professionalizing. Working with competencies is an important component of that. So far, we have been introducing it gradually—at first, in the HR department and the managers of healthcare services and afterwards in the remainder of our healthcare facility. The managers of those departments edit the sample profiles of www.competencyprofiles.com as far as the more organization-specific points are concerned. The sample profiles cover about 80% of the load, and then we convert them into our basic documents. Until now, the website has offered us what I expected of it in this regard. Time is an important factor for me. That is why I started working with the sample profiles and not yet with the instruments of the website.’
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE 3:
Job profiles established faster at Cantab Marketing Services
Cantab Marketing Services is a rapidly growing company in the field of business-to-business marketing. Director Ronald Bottema:
‘We are a fast growing company. As for the development of our job matrix, we were looking for a way to develop it quickly and without too much time spent for new and supporting jobs. The sample profiles of www.competencyprofiles.com are very useful to us because they can be simply edited with Word and contain good and recognizable division of duties which we could adapt just as they were. The most significant thing for me is the fact that the sample profiles save me a lot of time.’
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