DS Cohen & Associates
What are the behaviours your highly successful employees perform today that differentiate them from the average or less successful employee? Identifying those actions in exact behavioural terms creates your company’s unique behavioural competency model. Our behavioural competencies have been used successfully within organizations for over 30 years, as we are able to capture and translate the unique and subtle nuances of your most successful employees
By defining the highly successful actions taken by your employees, we develop a profile of success that is distinctive to your organization. Because we actively engage your people dynamically through stories about their moments of success, the pride of authorship remains with your employees.
Defining the success actions that enable your company’s strategy is an integral element for building an integrated people management system. Your organization is unique and requires different ways of being successful than others. As well, each role (or job family) requires different behaviours for success. Organizations and consultants often overlook these layers of complexity.
We understand that no two companies have the same history or culture. This is the exact logic behind engaging those who are currently thriving in their roles as the focus for building your behavioural competency model. As well, we gather information from those who are impacted and influenced by the position. The result is our Full Circle approach to developing organization-specific behavioural profiles.
Employee Authorship and Employee Ownership Are Vital for Success
Our Full Circle methodology enables our clients to create behavioural profiles that capture the exact and unique behaviours that drive their business plan and organizational success. Our multi-perspective view of the job is one critical element in developing behavioural profiles. This methodology engages your people through interviews and small group meetings by engaging in open, honest, confidential, and helpful communication from incumbents, direct reports, peers, management, suppliers, and customers. This 360-degree approach allows us to create a profile that accurately defines your success factors. By engaging your employees in the process of building their profiles, it is seen by them as fair, credible, and useful information that they can and will use as a roadmap for their success in the role.
Before finalizing the profiles, we further strengthen the quality of the behavioural statements by conducting a content-validation process, ensuring the profile is authentic to both the role and consistent with the values. It will drive the action to enable the execution of the company’s strategic plan.
The Positive Impact
Some of the positive impacts that reliable, employee-owned, and well-articulated behavioural competencies have on your organization:
- Articulated definition of success for each role
- A tangible and facts-based means of measuring individual performance
- A roadmap for development opportunities for employees
- A common language for managers and direct reports to allow them to have an honest dialogue on performance
- A sharper focus on those aspects of the role that make a difference in the success of an employee
- A fact-based foundation for selection, promotion, and recognition
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