Edu2web SkillMan - A new sense of productivity, a competency-focus

This unique platform is an integration of Edu2web™ Learning Management System and Edu2web™ Skillman.

Edu2web™ Skillman is a comprehensive system of methodologies and tools to enable the collection, validation, interpretation, and dissemination of workforce capabilities.

A Competency is a "base-level" knowledge domain that is relevant to the organization's mission. It is the fundamental business or technical principles that employee needs to understand and apply it to his or her specific job functions.

Competencies are associated with employees, job positions, and workforce requirements for organization programs and projects. This enables organizations to perform a more detailed analysis of gaps between current workforce capability and forecasted demand. The results are provided to appropriate Human Capital Programs and Executive Program leadership for strategic management of the gaps. Furthermore, Competencies are used as a means to measure the implementation of these programs and ensure alignment with the Organization Strategic Plans

Skills Management Lifecycle
1. Corporate Business Goals
2. Functional Goals
3. Required Skills to Meet Goals
4. Assess Actual Skills
5. Skills Gap Analysis
6. Training Investment Strategy
7. Development Plan
8. Training And Learning
9. Close Gaps

The Skills Management Life Cycle process represents a comprehensive approach to ensure an organization's business goals are supported by a properly skilled workforce. It provides an organization with a mechanism to translate its business goals to functional goals, which, in turn, dictate the needed skills. Upon comparison of the required to the actual skills (i.e., Skills Gap Analysis), the organization is then postured to make informed decisions pertaining to its training investment strategy. Development plans are created, learning occurs, and the skill gaps are closed.

Skills Management Components:
A successful Skills Management implementation requires three components:

360° Skill Assessment and Gap Analysis
• Employee Skill Profiling and Reporting
• Skills Gap Analysis - Detailed and Summary Views
• Personal and career Development Plan
• Powerful management reporting capabilities provide strategic views of organizational competencies

Skills Database:
The Skills Database is a comprehensive dictionary containing skills organized into families (categories).

• Save Time by building a skills Database from scratch can be a significant undertaking.
• Leverage existing experience.
• Start right away, while starting with a blank page is daunting. Let Skills database give you a template.

Job Profiles and Descriptions:
The Job Profiles database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs. Businesses and human resources professionals use it to:

• Develop effective job descriptions quickly and easily.
• Expand the pool of quality candidates for open positions.
• Define employee and/or job-specific success factors.
• Align organizational development with workplace needs.
• Refine recruitment and training goals.
• Design competitive compensation and promotion systems.

It Is Time to Develop the Skills and Competencies!
This new model has mapped every skill to a learning objective in an e-learning course so employees will automatically be provided with their career development plan which consists of all the necessary courses to acquire the required knowledge and skills. Then users can start the learning process in a traceable manner that enable training managers to track and report their activities and improvements.
This efficient model is flexible in manners that it does not limit HR or Training departments to mapping skills with e-learning courses but they can map skills with ILT programs or any learning resource whereas e-learning is just an option
"The combination of Skill Management and Learning Management will save organizations the time, efforts and investments of identifying the skill gaps, development plans of every employee and individually tracking his learning activities" Says Moawia F. Ali Executive Vice President, e-Arts Consulting.

The distinctive matter of this model is the ability of every employee to actually go through a complicated skill gap analysis process and then instantly find his training plan in a simple straight forward procedure.
"If I am a sales a manager and my aspiration job is Managing Director then all I have to do is click on Managing Director in the job database, and then I will be provided with all the necessary skills required for this post and further will be assessed and provided with my career plan that consists of all the e-learning and ILT courses required to achieve the competencies and then I can assign in these courses and begin learning" Says Motaz Salameh, Sales Manager, e-Arts Consulting.