Capability Assessment
How to do it effectively
What is a capability assessment?
A capability assessment is a structured and standardised framework for evaluating the capabilities and competencies of job seekers and your current employees.
It is usually conducted on a regular basis to find the strengths and capability gaps in your workforce.
Two types of capability
BUSINESS CAPABILITIES
The abilities, tools, processes and knowledge an organisation possesses to be able to deliver on products or services.
EMPLOYEE CAPABILITIES
The skills, knowledge and behaviours of an employee allowing them to perform their job.
Why it matters
Without a capability assessment, you’re going into any workforce planning (WFP), learning and development (L&D) or professional development activity blindly. You won’t know which skills gaps or capabilities to target to help build business resilience.
Remember The capabilities your organisation needs are specific to your organisation alone. Whatever tool you use, you need to make sure it’s tailored to assess the specific capabilities necessary for your employees and business.
Steps To Conduct An Assessment
Identify
Capabilities
which business and employee capabilities will help you achieve your business strategy.
analysing which business and employee capabilities will
customer.
Evaluate
This means
have the greatest (positive) impact both financially and for the
Evaluate The Assessment
consistent, objective
unbiased
You need to be
and
in your scoring of assessment criteria. How you collect data is up to you. Capability maturity means how well-developed those capabilities are.
When assessing capability, there are 5 levels of maturity
Analyse Results/Review
The main purpose of a capability assessment is to identify areas of improvement. The data will reveal what skills your workforce is capable in. But it will also highlight any opportunity for training where your workforce falls below your desired skill and capability targets.
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