The Risk of Mismanaging Skills Management
Establishing a strategy for managing and maintaining your skills management program is a vital step in the process of deploying a skills management function in your business. It’s often the difference between organizations that experience a wasted investment and those that achieve a future-proofed program. In this blog, we’ll talk through the risks of mismanaging […]
Competency Assurance & Safe Operations
As we listened in on the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) session, Perspectives from the Field, the message was clear. What keeps frontline rig managers up at night? The safety and competence of their workforce. Competency assurance is essential to safe, effective operations. What is competency assurance? Competency assurance at its most basic level […]
Top Engineering Skills & Competencies
Why do you need an engineering skills framework? The engineering industry is vast and complex with a variety of different roles and job functions. Even within the same organization, engineers can hold positions in electrical, mechanical, software, or chemical engineering, just to name a few. The top engineering skills needed can vary significantly, but there […]
What are QSEN Competencies in Nursing?
What are the QSEN competencies? The six QSEN competencies were created to help prepare and equip nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to provide quality and safe care in the health systems in which they work. Incorporating specific QSEN competency statements delivers needed standardization across nursing education, licensing, and certification programs. Why are QSEN competencies […]
Reskilling, Upskilling, and Cross-Skilling Build Workforce Capability
As organizations grapple with labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, and new technologies, the skills needed to keep pace, or even outpace, industry peers quickly evolve. PwC encountered the question, “How are we going to prepare our people?” in almost every conversation with leaders at the World Economic Forum. With 87% of executives experiencing skills gaps […]
Kahuna 2021 Year In Review
Well, it’s January 2022 otherwise known as the 25th month of 2020. Our high hopes for a complete return to normalcy may have been naïve but achieving significant milestones within the skills and competency management space, despite the ebbs and flows of uncertainty is a testament to the strength of our people and our incredible […]
Employee Skills: Metrics That Matter
Employee skills — metrics that matter — or do they matter? All industries have experienced change over the last year and a half. Leaders have narrowed their focus on the survival and stability of their organizations. Looking to the future, they’ll need to concentrate on steps to safely emerge into the “new normal” of post-pandemic […]
What is Skills Management Software?
The success of your organization is largely dependent on the skills, abilities, and knowledge of your workforce. As you navigate changes in technology, working environments, and business goals, it’s critical to keep employee skills and competencies top of mind. Top leaders around the globe are leveraging competency and skills management software and verified skills data […]
Kahuna 2020 Year In Review
I would love to pretend as if 2020 was any other year but we all know that isn’t the case. Rather than focus on the challenges we all faced, I would like to highlight why 2020 was a successful year for Kahuna. By most measures, the company outperformed expectations all the while strengthening relationships with […]
Quantify Your Nurse Orientation and Assessment Processes
Quantify Your Nurse Orientation and Assessment Processes with a Saas Competency Management System Healthcare organizations are facing a number of challenges. Leadership and clinical education teams are certainly feeling the burden as they try to tackle business initiatives on reduced operating budgets. One consistent theme we’ve heard this year from systems nation-wide is how critical […]
Using Bloom’s to Write Competency Descriptions
Learn about skills and competency management across industries Field Service Healthcare Manufacturing Energy How do you construct a competency framework? One of the first questions customers ask when beginning a competency management implementation is, “How do we categorize and construct our competency statements and library?” It’s a great question, one that touches every point of […]
Respiratory Therapists: The Unsung Heroes
In light of COVID-19, we saw a surge in the need for ventilators and respiratory therapists. Jai Shah, Kahuna’s Co-founder and CEO, had the opportunity to sit down with a team at Intermountain Healthcare responsible for the development and deployment of respiratory therapists within the organization. Throughout the interview, we learned about the essential role […]