Regardless of what you call them, competencies are fundamental elements that guide your talent strategy and provide the framework required for managing employee skills.

However, managing skills and competencies well takes more than a fancy chart that looks nice on a PowerPoint slide. It requires comprehensive tech capability that allows organizations to create and assess the frameworks while assessing where employees and designing a path that gets them to where they need to be.

And, while you’re not alone if you’re not currently using technology to manage the competencies and skills of your employees and unlock the power of a competent workforce, it’s a gap that’s too important to ignore.

In this episode, I talk with Jai Shah and Tom White from Kahuna Workforce Solutions to define what it means to manage competencies and skills and explain why this critical step will help solve the skill dilemma at the apex of every organization’s priority list.