{"id":24185,"date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wwwebdesignstudios.com\/client05\/key-ingredients-to-organizational-success\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:06:02","slug":"key-ingredients-to-organizational-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wwwebdesignstudios.com\/client05\/key-ingredients-to-organizational-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Ingredients to Organizational Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Key Ingredients To Organizational Success\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20962\" src=\"https:\/\/demo.wwwebdesignstudios.com\/client05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RaiseTheBarSlider_1584x396-1-1024x256-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"256\" \/>Conversation, Compensation, and Competencies<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Do you feel overwhelmed with managing your employees\u2019 expectations? Do they not understand your company culture and what is expected of them to keep progressing? You\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Communicating what it takes to achieve the next steps in job advancement provides your employees with the knowledge they need to manage their own careers. Moving up typically depends not only on having the skills and knowledge required for a promotion, but the behavioral attributes necessary to achieve job success.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to conducting an employee development review and coaching session, did you know that competencies can provide the necessary elements for building a solid career framework model?\u00a0 Competencies can play a significant role in determining the right conversation points, and even help determine compensation increases when it comes time to have your organization\u2019s annual performance reviews.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<b>Raising the Bar on Performance Management<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Adequate and customized competency assessments can contribute to enhanced performance management, framing employee development reviews and helping to identify:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Job performance standards and measures<\/li>\n<li>Job behaviors required to accomplish specific tasks and responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>Competencies demonstrated by average and superior performers in key jobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The American Compensation Association (now know as WorldAtWork) sponsored a research study in 1996 called \u201cRaising the Bar \u2013 Using Competencies to Enhance Employee Performance.\u201d Much of this 76-page booklet of findings still maintains relevancy with today\u2019s workforce. For example, one of the most frequently cited human resource strategies involves improving teamwork and coordination, and increasing the link between pay and performance.\u00a0 This is a human resource strategy that supports a broader business strategy.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<b>Exiting the \u201cFree Agent\u201d Culture<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>As organizations begin to adopt a career framework model as apposed to the \u201cfree agent\u201d culture, employees will be less likely to leave. Why? The reasons are obvious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They will feel encouraged in their path to progress<\/li>\n<li>They will understand your expectations more precisely<\/li>\n<li>They will stop feeling \u2018stuck\u2019 in a position that keeps asking them to do more for less<\/li>\n<li>They will remain engaged and dedicated, further preserving your culture and values<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In turn, this will satisfy both their drive to access dearly coveted positions and your need for performance and organizational success.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, click here to read about even more benefits of <a href=\"https:\/\/workitect.com\/consulting\/hr-talent-management-applications\/\">competency-based performance management.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Key Ingredients To Organizational Success\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21694\" src=\"https:\/\/demo.wwwebdesignstudios.com\/client05\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Competence-at-work-XXXX-e1562249765825.png\" alt=\"Workitect\" width=\"200\" height=\"63\" \/>To learn more about our <a href=\"https:\/\/workitect.com\/\">products and services<\/a>, and how competencies and competency models can help your organization, call 800-870-9490, email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@workitect.com\">info@workitect.com<\/a><br \/>\nor use the contact form at \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/workitect.com\/competency-based-talent-management-free-proposal\/\">Workitect.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a9\ufe0f2019, Workitect, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversation, Compensation, and Competencies Do you feel overwhelmed with managing your employees\u2019 expectations? Do they not understand your company culture and what is expected of them to keep progressing? You\u2019re not alone. 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