Why You Need a Skills Capability Uplift

Time brings changes in technology, industry direction or business needs; you need a capable workforce if your organisation is to keep up. Engaging in a capability uplift ensures the advancement of your team, allowing them to improve on their existing capabilities or acquire new ones as required. Without one, you’ll soon find that you have an under-skilled workforce lacking the knowledge needed to increase your competitive advantage.

A skills capability uplift will assist your organisation in the following areas:

• Recruitment

• Job design and role descriptions

• Career planning

• Succession planning

• Performance development practices

• Learning and development

• Workforce planning.

Recruitment

When you engage in a capability uplift, the skills required to carry out a particular role and the level of expertise are identified—simplifying the process of recruiting new talent to supply vacancies.

Job Design and Role Descriptions

A capability uplift is particularly useful when crafting a job description. It can help determine the capabilities required for a specific role and establish the systems and processes to be understood by an employee in that position––ensuring that staff clearly understand their responsibilities to boost productivity.

Career Planning

Career planning intrinsically links with career satisfaction. It allows employees to consider the type of career and professional goals they want to pursue, the kind that leads them toward career satisfaction. It's important to remember that staff thrive in an environment that encourages growth, adaptation and the opportunity to reach career goals in a profession that teaches them new things.

Succession Planning

From time to time, there will be positions that become available within your business that you'll be required to fill. Whether you fill that position from an external talent pool or promote it internally, a skills capability uplift will help you identify the best candidate.

A skills capability uplift will help you to measure the qualifications of each candidate. Further, if you are aware of specific roles soon to be vacant, you can plan for particular team members to learn the required capabilities to take up the position in the future.

Performance Development Practices

Performance management is about delivering continuous feedback to align an employee's individual goals with the overall organisational goals. A capability uplift can highlight this as well as measure progress.

Learning and Development

A skills capability uplift will assist learning and development by allowing it to proceed efficiently. Learning and development aims to raise skills, knowledge and behaviours to increase performance and meet business goals. Your capability uplift will identify the skills, knowledge and behaviour that comprise the capabilities required to fulfil organisational roles.

Workforce Planning

A skills capability uplift works to build the future workforce. While workforce planning traditionally centres on positioning the right people with the right skills in the right jobs at the right time to deliver an organisation's strategic objectives, it's important to remember that learning and development doesn't stop there––skills date as environments change. Engaging in a capability uplift can prevent an under-skilled workforce.