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SFIA
The Path to Cyber Resilience – Integrating SFIA and CIISec for a Skilled Security Workforce

Introduction Research on behalf of the UK Department for Science,…

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SFIA
Successful SFIA 9 Implementation: 5 Key Change Management Tips

Introduction  What is the most significant factor in the success/failure…

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SFIA
Selling SFIA and Skills to Your Leadership Team

Introduction Becoming a skills-based organization or team is not a…

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SFIA
Unleash SFIA Version 9 and Transform Your Digital Skills Management Strategy

Introduction Emerging technologies and fast-moving industry trends make it imperative…

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L&D
Using Skills Insights to Align Learning with Strategic Goals

Introduction  Understanding the gap between the skill levels an organization…

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L&D
How to Foster a Learning Culture and Model Successful Performance

Foster a Learning Culture  Taken together, these skills-driven L&D practices…

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L&D
How to Measure the Impact of L&D Investment 

Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of training has long…

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Skills
Stop Losing Talent: Why Your Managers Need a Skills-based Approach to Coaching

Why Coaching is Critical The Institute of Coaching quoting a survey carried…

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SFIA
Migrating To SFIA Version 9 – Why Bother?

With all the excitement surrounding the release of SFIA v9…

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Skills
Are Skills Just Data for Talent Management?

There’s been a lot of noise and confusion about skills…

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Career Development
5 Power Tools to Transform Overworked Managers into Career Coaching Rockstars

According to a survey carried out by The Chartered Management…

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Career Pathways
Enabling Career Pathways with Technology

The Visibility Challenge This article is a follow up on…

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Career Pathways
Roles and Responsibilities for Modern Career Pathways

Following on from Part 3, it’s not always clear whose…

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Career Pathways
A Modern Career Pathway Playbook

As described in Part 2 of this article, the traditional…

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Career Pathways
Career Pathways
The Argument for Career Pathways

Effective career pathways are a win-win for both employees and…

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Job Descriptions
12 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Job Descriptions

Crafting effective job descriptions is crucial for attracting qualified candidates,…

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Job Descriptions
Skills-Based Job Descriptions: 5 Key Tips and 5 Key Benefits

Introduction Things are changing when it comes to job descriptions.…

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Job Descriptions
6 Barriers to Writing Great Job Descriptions and How to Overcome Them

Job descriptions have been around for a long, long time,…

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Job Descriptions
The Vital Role of Job Descriptions in Transforming Talent Management

Introduction Talent management has emerged as a cornerstone of organizational…

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AI
AI and Skills: Forget the Hype, Find the Business Benefits

Introduction According to the Global Learning and Development (L&D) Sentiment Survey…

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Skills
Succession Planning: Leveraging Skills Intelligence Data for Maximum Impact

Introduction The quest to identify and nurture talent for business-critical…

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Skills
Cutting Through the Noise on Skills Intelligence

Skills are currently at the forefront of discussions across industries.…

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Skills
Unlocking Business Success: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Skills-Based Organization

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, organizations must adapt to…

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Change Management
Achieving Change Excellence: Building a Winning Sponsorship Coalition

Organizations face the challenge of embracing new technologies, responding to…

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Change Management
Managing Change – Stop Telling, Start Communicating

What is the biggest factor in the success/failure of a…

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Artifical Intelligence
Demystifying AI in Skill Assessments: What You Need to Know

Introduction: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in the…

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SFIA
Unleashing AI’s Power to Enhance SFIA-based NICE Cyber Security Work Roles

For those working in the ever-evolving field of cyber security,…

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Skills Gaps
Skills Gaps – Which Skills Should You be Targeting for Business Success?

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, it’s more important than…

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Skills Gaps
Skills Gaps – How to Prevent Them from Damaging Your Organisation

“Skills gaps” – they have almost become a cliché, haven’t…

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Learning
Connecting the Dots: How to Align Learning and Development with Business Goals for Maximum Impact

Introduction “Mapping learning to business goals is the No.1 priority”…

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Skill-based hiring
Critical Factors for Successful Skill-based Hiring

If you are interested in this topic, register for our…

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Skills Gaps
Using the Talent Grid to Move Beyond ‘Buy or Build’

Summary The skills gap is real and growing but there’s…

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Reskilling
Reskilling and upskilling: the scale of the problem

Reskilling and upskilling are hot topics. In my L&D Global…

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Skills Gaps
Skills Gaps? What’s the Problem?

Skills Gaps? What’s the Problem? At Lexonis we help organizations…

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Performance Management
How Talent Management Can Survive and Thrive Through Remote Working

Let’s be clear, COVID-19 hasn’t been the sole driver for…

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HR Analytics
How to Leverage HR Data for Strategic Decision-making

Donald H Taylor, Chair at the Learning Technologies Conference In my…

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HR Analytics
Six Steps to Finding Value in Your HR Data

Donald H Taylor, Chair at the Learning Technologies Conference The hardest…

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Competencies
5 Reasons to Use Technology to Implement Competencies

A successful competency program has to deliver tangible employee, operational…

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Competencies
5 Key Techniques to Successfully Implement Your Competency Management Programme

What is the biggest factor in the success/failure of a…

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Competencies
Employee or Employer? Who Really is Responsible for Career Development?

It’s a question that needs to be answered, as 94%…

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Career Development
8 Key Tips to Building Your Organisation’s Career Development Strategy

According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workplace Learning Report, 94% of employees…

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Competencies
Competencies – The Secret Weapon in the “War for Talent”

Competencies – The Secret Weapon in the “War for Talent”*…

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Competencies
Why Use SFIA 7 for IT Skill Assessments?

Why do an assessment? Before we start on why SFIA…

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SFIA
Selling The SFIA IT Skills Framework To Your IT Leadership Team

“Skills management is not a priority for us, we’ve got…

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SFIA
Migrating to SFIA 7 – Lexonis’ Top Tips

The new version of SFIA, version 7, launched on Friday…

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SFIA
SFIA Version 7  – What’s all the Excitement About?

The new version of SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information…

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Competencies
Talent Mobility – Why Competencies are the Secret Ingredient

What is Talent Mobility? Synonyms for the word “mobility” include…

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Engagement
Employee Engagement: 3 Things I’ve Learned

As the year winds down and organisations start planning for…

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Competencies
Using Competencies for Accurate Learning Needs Analysis

How do you go about accurately identifying the learning needs…

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Engagement
Using Competencies to Drive Employee Engagement

We recently delivered a webinar on the subject ‘Using Competencies…

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ISO 27001
ISO 27001: Trust or Confidence?

In my previous blog post, Protecting Your Data with ISO-27001,…

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Engagement
What Employee Engagement Means to Me

There’s a lot being said and being written about employee…

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Career Development
Career Development, Internal Mobility and Competencies

Business leaders often tell us that employees are their organisation’s…

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Recruitment
7 Ways Competencies Can Help You Recruit Effectively

Successful employers recognise the need to recruit employees that are…

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ISO 27001
Protecting Your Data with ISO 27001

Organisations today operate in an increasingly high threat environment. We…

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Competencies
Building Job Competency Profiles – Using Online Job Role Surveys

There are a number of ways of gathering competency data…

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Competencies
How To Get Buy-in For Your Competency Program

Acquisition of competency libraries, definition of new competencies, job competency…

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Competencies
Job Competency Profiles – Where Do I Start?

A job competency profile can be used across the organisation…

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Competencies
SFIA Applications: Recruitment

(SFIA: Skills Framework for the Information Age) One of the…

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Competencies
SFIA Applications: Learning and Development

(SFIA: Skills Framework for the Information Age) How does your…

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Competencies
Why Competency Assurance for Oil and Gas?

Oil and Gas regulators are putting increasingly more pressure on organisations…

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Competencies
Bringing SFIA to Life

(SFIA: Skills Framework for the Information Age) A number of…

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Competencies
The Performance Appraisal Paradox

There must be a better way… As performance appraisal time…

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Competencies
Competencies – Build or Buy?

Buy off-the-shelf, build from new or take the middle road…

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Competencies
Using Competencies to Drive Performance

Competencies are demonstrated behaviors that reflect the skills, knowledge, attributes…

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Competencies
Building Competencies: Using What You’ve Got

There are a number of approaches to creating competencies and…

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Competencies
Selling Competencies to Your CEO

“We’ve got enough on our hands trying to do the…

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Competencies
10 Practical Tips on Implementing Competencies (Part 2 of 2)

This blog follows from my previous one on the same…

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Competencies
10 Practical Tips on Implementing Competencies (Part 1 of 2)

Implementing competency models is no small undertaking. Furthermore, your sponsors,…

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Competencies
Competency-based Learning: Why Bother?

When I was employed as a Learning and Development manager…

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Competencies
People Are Your Most Valuable Asset? Prove it!

What’s more valuable to your organization; the people that you…

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