Ensuring that staff have the necessary, up to date skills to do their jobs is not always an easy task to manage. The more staff and the more competencies there are, the more complex the problem becomes. With different competency requirements for different job roles the problem is exacerbated even further.
If these competencies are required for industry, health and safety or legislative reasons, then the costs of failure to manage can be very high.
Many such competencies are time limited and sometimes renewal intervals are frequent – as often as every six months or in some cases even less. There may also be multiple renewal options, refresher courses, different providers and so on to contend with.
There are two key tasks to achieve. The first one is to know exactly where the organisation is – who has the competencies they need – and more importantly who doesn’t? The second requirement is to establish what needs to be renewed and when so that future training can be planned for.
Training Manager Pro features a simple and easy to administer competency management capability. Once set up, the competencies update quietly in the background, with no further work required. Competency criteria can even be applied retrospectively to existing training data.
The competency status of every individual can be quickly and easily viewed on screen. A range of powerful reports allows gaps to be viewed across teams*, departments*, job roles* or the whole organisation. Other features include the ability to find people with a mix of competencies or to predict what competencies will be expiring in any given date range.
Training Manager Online extends these capabilities still further. Individual staff members and/or managers can see what competencies are expiring, look for suitable training courses to renew their competencies and then request places on these courses directly.
* Depends on data structure. Training Manager Pro can be configured to suit the individual organisation.
