Our Approach
Our approach is simple but powerful. We help you to measure your organization’s learning and talent development processes, and then we help you analyze the results for continuous improvement.
Talent Development Reporting Principles
TDRP is an executive initiative supported and driven by many of KnowledgeAdvisors top clients and industry leaders. The hope is that this standard framework will be broadly adopted with common terminology and measures, which in turn will contribute to a greater understanding of successful practices and meaningful comparisons across organizations. Our inspiration is the set of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) which have been used by the accounting profession in the United States since 1973 to provide consistency, clarity and uniformity in the analysis of the financial well-being of organizations. The data produced using these principles can then provide a solid foundation for analysis, just as the data produced by accountants according to GAAP provides the foundation for financial analysis.
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Performance Optimization Framework
We start with The Performance Optimization Framework, which is grounded in Six Sigma and is designed to help organizations improve the effectiveness of their talent development processes. The central outcome of the Framework is to identify and minimize poor quality hires, ineffective training, unqualified personnel, ineffective leaders, disengaged employees, and underperforming workforces resulting in improved financial performance.
Six Pillars of Human Capital
Our roots are in learning evaluation but we’ve branched out and can measure the entire employee lifecycle. Specifically, there are six core areas where our measurement technology and consulting solutions can be applied: Recruiting, Learning, Talent (competency management), Leadership, Engagement and Performance.
Measurement Maturity and Sustainability
Our approach ensures that measurement of talent development is not a project, but a process with long-term continuity. We apply a framework to help our customers continuously improve their measurement acumen over time.
Business Impact
From the most practical and scalable, to a statistically precise predictive model, we’ve got the solutions to link talent development to business impact. With a small investment of money, time and people you can leverage our smart sheet evaluations that embed credible measurement methodology to achieve roughly reasonable business impact metrics automatically collected and reported by our Metric that Matter® system. If you need highly precise data, you can have our analytics experts conduct Causal Modeling to forecast and predict talent investments link to business outcomes. There are other approaches in the middle that leverage our self sufficient technology or our data analysis consulting solutions.
Benchmarking
Not only can you compare your performance to other companies utilizing KnowledgeAdisors benchmarking capabilities, you can also see how your company is improving because of your Learning and Human Capital Processes. You to choose the timing – before or after an event, quarterly, semi-annually, or annually – and KnowledgeAdvisors will help you implement a plan to survey employees or customers who have participated in your learning and talent programs. The results will help you understand their satisfaction with the learning organization, their knowledge transfer, their use of the skills on the job, the business results they impacted, and the return relative to the organization’s investment. That means you will have the data to demonstrate the value of talent initiatives to your organization.
