The Power of Accomplishment Based Job Profiles

We discuss how accomplishment based profiles can support every stage in talent development and talent management, with greater clarity and better measurement than any other approach, including skills-based and competency-based job descriptions.

[@heartandscience1970]

Great work brother!

[@jennyvinyl85]

Thank you, Dr. Binder, for the insightful webinar. It solidified my view that accomplishments are a key aspect of performance. However, during a recent conversation with an HR Manager, he offered a complementary perspective. While he agreed on the importance of work outputs, he emphasized the value of competency models. He highlighted two key reasons for using them. Firstly, they go beyond results to highlight our company values. We value not just achieving targets, but also HOW people achieve them. He shared an anecdote: "I've encountered high performers who achieved results but left a trail of negativity in their wake." Secondly, competency models identify behaviors that strengthen our culture. These include helping colleagues, sharing knowledge, and taking on extra work collaboratively. He added: “we don’t rate them because it’s very subjective but use them as communication and feedback tools”. Perhaps, is this the way to use competencies?

[@TheSixBoxes]

Well, from our perspective, competency models are the most damaging thing ever done in the talent development world. They do NOT actually identify behavior, since a given competency would look VERY different from one situation to another. For example, "communication effectiveness" points to very different behavior in a sales situation, vs. a conversation with one's direct report vs. in a tough negotiation with a competitor in the market. Ratings competencies turns the whole enterprise into a subjective exercise, raising huge degrees of cynicism for all involved. Here's a blog post I wrote several years ago that expands on that. www.sixboxes.com/Blog.html?&blog=uovvuiflet&articleID=74 And here is a webinar on the topic. ua-cam.com/video/tXR-LicAb8k/v-deo.htmlsi=n4Rc45MNOI4QSQjU
This is a controversial topic because companies have literally invested billions of dollars in LMSs, Performance Management Systems, etc. built on competency models. But competencies take us to a level of abstraction that makes talent development unfocused, and most of all, making people think they're engaging in something valuable, when it truly is damaging. That is my perspective based on 40+ years of observation, but of course one need not agree. :)

[@JaredV_]

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[@TheSixBoxes]

What IT Really Means to Be Accomplishment Based article at: bit.ly/BinderAccomplishmentBased