Competency modeling
Understanding competencies is key to HR strategy. As a pioneer and world leader in this space, Hay Group can help you use competency models to refine your selection and development processes.
The issue
Competency frameworks are the fundamental underpinnings of human resource strategies, because they reveal the skills that an organization needs to be successful. Modelling an effective competency framework is a complex task, though, because it must reflect business and culture as well as comprising a complex set of behavioral patterns.
Why Hay Group?
Hay Group is the pioneer and world leader in competency modelling, which traces its history back to Dr. David McClelland, founder of the McClelland Center within Hay Group. Our competency models are unique, reflecting the complex realities of performance. They show how characteristics interrelate in different situations to differentiate performance. Hay Group competency models enable you to be both more flexible and more precise in your selection decisions. They help you to understand development needs and priorities – and they help identify patterns for career paths.
The Hay Group approach
We look at the full spectrum of what a person brings to work. Each competency identifies a range of behaviors, arrayed in levels of increasing complexity. We use a variety of methods to develop role-based competency modelling – from in-depth interviews to focus groups, or using our extensive competency database.
