Competencies and Talent Mobility - with Cindy Plunkett

In this episode, Andrea Butler interviews Cindy Plunkett about competencies and talent mobility. 

The key takeaways from this episode:

• One challenge with competencies is that they are not easy to write. Because they capture both behaviours and skills in action, when developing competencies for a specific domain (e.g., marketing, customer care), there is often a lot of back and forth and time and effort required.
• You need the competencies written really well first, and customized to your organization, before you can start using them for talent applications like talent mobility.
• Foundational competencies are a great place to start. Competencies like Innovation or Teamwork that you really want to see in every employee. What’s great is you can link these competencies to interview questions to make sure you are hiring people that align to these foundational competencies.