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British Council goes global with online employee skills assessment
system
The marketing and communications skills of British Council employees in
109 countries are to be improved through their implementation of a new
web-based system that analyses their capabilities and manages skills.
Capability Matrix from learning development specialists MyKnowledgeMap (MKM)
is a customisable online capability and skills management system that
allows users to create, manage and deliver custom skills gap assessments
for their organisations.
A pilot of the system has been in use since last year in British Council
offices in North and Central Europe to identify gaps in employees?
marketing and communication skills and help them perform to the best of
their ability.
The pilot was designed to test the implementation of the system in
locations where users of different nationalities would need to use the
tool unsupported and without guidance once launched to employees
globally.
Sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British Council is
the UK?s international organisation for educational opportunities and
cultural relations with the remit of building mutually beneficial
relationships between people in the UK and other countries.
The organisation employs people of many different nationalities all over
the world. For this reason, the implementation of a capability management
system needed to be easy-to-use and easy-to-understand.
For the British Council, Capability Matrix has been pre-loaded with
competencies based on the professional marketing standards of the
Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) as well as Council-devised
competencies for communication skills.
The system has been praised for its clear, straightforward design and
global usability.
"As our workforce is geographically dispersed across two hundred and
twenty offices, we needed a system that could help us to see what
capacity we had at each level and where it could be deployed" says
Sumathi Jayaraman, corporate marketing strategy manager for the British
Council.
"People have been really impressed with the system. The concept is
fantastic".
Its successful execution at pilot stage has now prompted the imminent
implementation of the Capability Matrix throughout the British Council
worldwide.
Further information on Capability Matrix at
www.myknowledgemap.com
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Editors Note
About Capability Matrix
Capability Matrix is a customisable online capability and skills
management system. Its flexibility allows users to create, manage and
deliver custom skills gap assessments for their organisations.
Core benefits include the means of:
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creating capability and
training needs assessments based on nationally recognised competency
maps (National Occupational Standards);
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creating customisable
assessments and targets;
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establishing capability
targets set by job-role or team;
enabling delivery of assessments and producing individual capability
reports;
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producing in-depth
organisational reports identifying what capabilities are available
and where they are concentrated;
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identifying where training
should be targeted;
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scoping in on team or job
functions for detailed views of capabilities and training needs.
About MyKnowledgeMap
Founded in 2000, MyKnowledgeMap (often known as MKM) is a dynamic company
delivering web-based knowledge systems designed by individuals for
individuals.
Operating in the corporate, public and education sectors, MKM's range of
products and services includes:
? Academies: MKM is the UK's leading supplier of infrastructure systems
for national skill academies, including those in the UK for food & drink
manufacturing, sport & active leisure, care, and retail. MKM's e-academy
infrastructure helps learners and people with a stake in a particular
skill to progress from entry to degree level.
Working with the UK's
national Sector Skills Councils (MKM's clients include Skillsmart Retail,
Improve and SkillsActive), MKM has pioneered online academies that can
help people with everything from day-to-day productivity to discovering
and achieving relevant qualifications. MKM also offers e-academies
tailored to the needs of organisations in the private and local
government sectors.
? Skills diagnostics: MKM's Skills Diagnostic suite allows clients to
build their own system of skills diagnosis and training regimens. Its
sophisticated software tools are designed to meet clients' specific
needs, and to facilitate, not impose, the required solutions.
? Learning: MKM's e-learning solutions, including e-learning content,
delivery systems and teaching aids, are used by a worldwide and growing
range of organisations from Lloyds TSB to the RSPB; from manufacturing to
retailing; from the police to local authorities; from the University of
York to colleges in Delhi, Bahrain and Nairobi. MKM produces inventive
and versatile applications that are can be shaped and contextualised by
their users to meet the rapidly-changing needs of contemporary work and
training, either for use within an e-Academy environment or as
stand-alone products.
