Competencies: Design, Development and Implementation Course in Amsterdam

Building Competency Frameworks That Connect People, Performance, and Strategy

Competency frameworks provide organisations with a structured way to define the knowledge, skills, behaviours, and capabilities required for successful performance. When properly designed, they create a common language for recruitment, performance management, learning and development, career progression, and talent decisions.

The Competencies – Design, Development and Implementation course provides participants with a practical methodology for creating and applying behavioural and technical competency frameworks. Across five days, participants learn how to identify competency requirements, collect and analyse relevant data, define proficiency levels, establish assessment methods, test and calibrate frameworks, and align competencies with organisational strategy.

The programme takes participants from initial framework design through implementation and continuous improvement, ensuring competency systems are practical, measurable, clearly communicated, and integrated into core HR processes.

You'll Learn How To

• Explain the strategic purpose of competency frameworks.
• Distinguish between competence and competency in an organisational context.
• Align competency requirements with business objectives and organisational values.
• Differentiate behavioural, technical, generic, and role-specific competencies.
• Collect and analyse data for competency framework development.
• Establish clear competency terminology and definitions.
• Define competency indicators and proficiency levels.
• Design behavioural competency frameworks.
• Design technical competency frameworks.
• Develop appropriate competency assessment methods.
• Apply psychometric tools appropriately within competency assessment.
• Test and calibrate competency frameworks.
• Integrate competencies into recruitment and selection.
• Apply competency frameworks to performance and development processes.
• Develop an effective competency framework implementation plan.
• Review and improve competency frameworks over time.