Competency-based education (CBE) is a formal method of academic instruction and evaluation based on the employee’s ability to demonstrate their mastery of a subject or skill.
CBE is a learning methodology. It is not a replacement for your current training curriculum or content. It is not a new software program.
We start with what you already have and build from there with a focus on your business priorities.
A grouping of related knowledge, skills, and abilities that enable a professional to perform effectively in a particular aspect of their job, is called a competency.
But a competency has a description and a series of observable behaviors the employee must demonstrate to be competent. Many times, there is a numerical value to competency.
A competency framework is a measurement of the skills, judgment, knowledge and attributes of a particular job required to perform a role effectively.
It defines a set of competencies for each role in your department, business or company and showcases the values, behaviors and requirements an organization strives for to reach its goals and objectives.
The competency framework essentially aligns personal performance with corporate values. These frameworks may help you evaluate employees’ performances and recognize qualified candidates during the hiring process.
Competency-Based Education (CBE) refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting based on your employee’s ability to demonstrate they have learned the knowledge and skills you expected them to learn.
The general goal of Competency-Based Education is to ensure that your employees can demonstrate they are competent in a specific skill set before moving on to higher-level learning. If an employee fails to meet the expected learning standards, they typically receive additional instruction, practice time, and academic support to help them achieve competency or meet the expected standards.
Competency-Based Education is an approach to teaching and learning more often used in learning concrete skills than abstract knowledge, which makes CBE the perfect methodology for teaching sales and sales management skills. It differs from other non-related methods in that the unit of learning is extremely fine-grained.
To be successful in business, you must teach your employees how to think, reason, act, and respond to the wide range of circumstances they will encounter as they represent your company to the public.
That’s why I practice Competency-Based Education.
To maintain your company’s competitive advantage, you need to maximize your team’s productivity by providing the appropriate skills at the right time. Embracing the optimum level of education, enablement, and engagement, you can dramatically reduce attrition and safeguard your investment made in hiring.
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Many organizations struggle to measure the effectiveness of their training programs. They wonder if they are getting their money’s worth. These doubts can lead the company to underfund their training programs.
Traditional evaluation methods of training programs are not adequate to measure ROI. In addition, many training professions do not know how to measure ROI.
My Competency-Based Learning programs are focused on measuring everything from course participation, quiz scores, and practical application.
Remember, Competency-Based Learning encourages learners to learn at their own pace.
Experienced and skilled employees can “quiz” out on the subjects where they can demonstrate competency. If they have difficulty in any given subject, that information becomes their new learning plan until they can master that level.
New employees can move from one level to the next as quickly as they can demonstrate their competency. They learn the material in the right order, so the skills build one upon the other.
References:
(iii) Bridging the Gap: Integrating Learning and Work, Towards Maturity Benchmark Study, 2012-2013
(iv) Impact of Training on ERP Project Success, IDC 2012
(v) IBM Case Study – AMD, 2013
(v1i) IDC MarketScape: Worldwide IT Education and Training 2013 Vendor Analysis, IDC, 2013
I will be happy to send you a white paper on the benefits of using Competency-Based Education techniques in your organization.
