Managing Skills in the Digital Age SFIA Practical Training Course

Overview

Do you know what skills your teams need in order to extend or transform capability?
Can people in your teams see career development opportunities and the skills they need to focus on?

As your business evolves and matures, you need a managed approach to skills development: to cross-skill, upskill and also to facilitate recruitment. Role-focused skills profiles, aligned to an industry standard framework, will provide benchmarks for a subsequent analysis of skills gaps and areas for individual development.

This 1-day workshop combines practical learning with an opportunity to apply the skills learned in your own context. In the morning, we'll introduce you to the world's most popular framework, SFIA: Skills Framework for the Information Age®. You will learn how SFIA describes incrementing levels of responsibility and how to map roles appropriately. You will practise creating well-formed and focused skills profiles for recognised job-roles.

In the afternoon, you will be able to work on skills profiles for a particular role or job-family in your own organisation. Your experienced CourseMonster tutor will help you to get started and will be on hand to provide guidance and assistance. The day concludes with a review of your opportunities to apply and promote skills management practices in your own organisation.

Skills Gained

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Recognise how businesses and individuals can benefit by aligning to an industry standard skills framework
Describe SFIA: its principles and structure
Describe SFIA’s seven levels of responsibility and relate them to your organisation’s own levels
Determine the SFIA skills needed in a particular situation, job or assignment and determine the level at which the skills are required
Take away 'next steps' for how your own organisation can leverage the benefits of SFIA-aligned skills profiles

Prerequisites

This course is suitable for:

Heads of functions and team managers, looking for a way to professionalise and drive their teams' capabilities
Learning & Development professionals seeking to align learning solutions to recognised skills
HR Partners who facilitate the professional development of individuals.

There are no formal prerequisites. Those attending are asked to bring 1-3 job descriptions (ideally from their own teams), for skills profiling during the workshop.

Outline

A.M.

The need for skills management and the benefits of a common framework
Introduction to SFIA - background, principles and structure
SFIA levels of responsibility and organisational alignment
Role-based skills profiles: professional, personal and technical skills

P.M.

Develop draft skills profiles for roles in your own business. (Guideline: 3 related roles in a team/job-family OR 1-2 unrelated roles).
Review of techniques learned. Opportunities to apply and promote skills management practices in your own organisation.

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Managing Skills in the Digital Age SFIA Practical

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