For those getting ready to go to HR Software or Learning Technologies Shows may find our thoughts useful to help direct some of the questions you’ll need to answer before you have for meetings with suppliers when choosing talent management software – and the logical steps to take.…

Much of the work we do with clients involves, at some level, job analysis or competency frameworks. Working with large numbers of these you do begin to see patterns and consistent themes, but we do also see a great variation in the depth, breadth and structure of competency models. When developing a framework to underpin your talent management efforts, it can be fiendishly difficult to strike a balance between something that will apply to most and making it too generalised to be useful. The potential application and therefore level of detail and specificity required in a framework is therefore something well worth debating before you embark on a competency development project.…