Start from the Catalog
Use TalonHR's Competency Catalog as your starting point. Select the competencies that apply to your organization and customize descriptions and behavioral anchors to match your language and culture.
Competency Framework
Competency Catalog
A proven foundation for building competency-based HR systems. TalonHR's Universal Competency Catalog is an inventory of clearly defined competency titles, descriptions, and behavioral anchors spanning the full range of general business performance — so you can build competency models without starting from scratch.
From library to management system
On its own, the Catalog is a competency library: a curated, pre-validated set of competency definitions that spares an organization from drafting behavioral anchors from a blank page.
Paired with TalonHR's competency development methodology, it becomes the backbone of a full competency management system — the single source of truth that keeps hiring, job profiles, performance management, and succession planning all measuring the same competencies the same way.
Why competency models matter
Competencies are the knowledge and skills required to achieve desired performance outcomes. Successful organizations use competency models not only for training and development, but for integrating the full complement of HR systems:
✓Selection and recruitment
✓Performance management
✓Succession planning
✓Career management
✓Job design
✓Training and development
Benefits of competency-based systems
Higher performance expectations
Organizations that adopt competency-based systems can point to increased overall levels of performance and performance expectations.
Strategic alignment
Align employee behaviors and performance with business strategies by linking competency models to strategic organizational values and objectives.
Development-for-contribution exchange
Implement a new employer-employee contract where the organization gives employees opportunities to develop in exchange for their value-added contribution.
Whole-person measurement
Accurate methods for measuring the "whole-person" contribution of each employee, not just their job description.
What competency models enable
✓Support and communicate the organization's strategies and values
✓Contribute directly to the achievement of defined business objectives
✓Enable employees to respond intelligently to current and foreseeable conditions
✓Minimize expenditure of time and resources on non-strategic HR initiatives
✓Integrate HR systems and focus them on achieving strategic objectives
✓Provide a framework and focused direction for individual employee growth
✓Encourage optimum employee involvement and ownership of results
Build from scratch
Prefer a fully custom model? Create your own competency framework directly in TalonHR, with as many competencies, proficiency levels, and behavioral anchors as your organization needs.
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