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WHAT IS IT?

Research has shown that only30% oforganisations applysystematic and objectiveskill-assessment instruments.Those instruments are needed to guide the employee development and training decisions.

Applying proper skill assessment instruments, such as The GC Index®, is critical as job roles have to be aligned with strategic intents of organisations. If an employee with the wrong skill set is filling an important role, it may have an negative impact on the business due to dissatisfied customers and employees.

On top of enabling choosing the right employee with the right skill set for the job, skill-assessment tools allow to identify employees with potential skills and to provide them with the right development opportunities.

Individualise Each Skill-Assessment

Skill-assessment tools enable companies and organisations to build a competency framework by defining relevant skills to ensure success per job role. This ensures that skills are clearly differentiable among the job roles without unnecessary overlap. Experience has shown that such a framework offers benefits by helping employees understand the skill definitions and requirements demands along the whole employee life cycle.

Detecon’s approach towards skill assessments and building competency frameworks is not a “one size fits all” approach. Detecon applies both a subjective as well as an objective assessment.

In fact, employees should be given an individual assessment based on their requirements, inclinations, and position within the organisation. In conclusion, every department in a company should have its own skill-assessments. This allows Detecon’s clients to test skills that are linked to employees’ work performance, rather than evaluating skill sets that may be unconnected.

Hardand Soft Skill-Assessments

Instead of testing generic skills that every employee should possess, Detecon tries to focus on job-specific skill-assessments that are based on task and responsibilities of the workforce. Essentially, organisations should focus on skills that actually are important and directly relate to on-the-job performance.

It is important to test both hard and soft skills when you are assessing the skills of employees, as both types are essential in the workplace. A technical skill is typically related to a particular field or profession. However, soft skills help employees relate to others, collaborate, and communicate. For example, a technician may know a lot about the equipment they work with, but they might not be able to communicate with customers in order to troubleshoot common issues.

Organisations can discover which skills are truly relevant by observing employees in the workplace, speaking with supervisors, and conducting surveys. Apart from offering help when it comes to determining success criteria, Detecon offers different types of assessments, such as 90° to 360° degree or online self-assessments to enable building a skills repository.

Detecon’s Approach

When performing a capability check for a large group, Detecon advises clients to apply the following steps: Define, capture, match and propose in order to guarantee high job performance and results.

While the first two steps focus on success criteria, derived from the company’s vision and strategy, as well as on skills and competencies, the steps of matching and proposing concern the workforce portfolio and measures to invest properly in the workforce, or the adoption of it.

The GC Index® is successfully being applied by Detecon in the step of matching, as skills and competencies will be mapped during this phase to then be able to identify gaps and to hire and train accordingly in the propose-phase.

Requirements for this approach to generate sustainable impact, is a full commitment by the organisation’s management,as well as Detecon trained internal assessors being in place.

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The team proved its ability to flexibly adapt to our requirements and the project’s needs.We are pleased to recommend Detecon as reliable and value adding partner.”

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The results achieved have been in accordance to our expectations. The team proved its ability to flexibly adapt to our requirements and Project needs and executed activities that went beyond the originally designed scope of work.

David Ngobeni, CEO, Alpha Investment Group

“Progresif appreciates and agrees with the recommendations provided by the Detecon team for a possible organizational structure of NMP, as well as the necessary roles, headcount and allocation of NMP staff.

The delivered assessment reports were acknowledged as critical for further decisions with regard to personnel and their development.We are pleased to recommend Detecon as a reliable and value-adding partner.”

Paul Hyde, CEO, Progresif

“The project reported directly to the top management (CEO and Management Committee)of Digital Division with the undersigned as the responsible overall project manager of the M2M/ DigitalDivision unit.

Detecon conducted the work to our utmost satisfaction. Through the professional management of the Detecon team within and beyond their work streams, the project was highly successful and ensured that all relevant stakeholders’ were aligned and their requirements managed. This was a key success factor for the project to meet the tight six months transformation deadline.

We are happy to confirm Detecon as the preferred consultancy to support us. Without limitation, we can recommend Detecon as a highly professional consultancy.”

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