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

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Nurse orientation and assessment processes should be managed in a modern skills and competency management system. Visibility into validated skills data helps establish nursing competence throughout your organization. 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 […]

Using Bloom’s to Write Competency Descriptions

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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

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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 […]

Kahuna Partners with NorComp

We’re excited to announce our partnership with NorComp, a SI company in Norway with more than 12 years of international experience in competency assurance and learning management. NorComp has strategically worked with Kahuna since 2016, playing a key role in project implementation and management with several clients. With their knowledge of our system and European […]

Telehealth Usage Is Rising and Increasing the Need for Digitization

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Technology has been a trend this year. The many forms of it have allowed us to stay connected in countless ways. Most of us have relied on it while being away from family and friends, to check in with coworkers while working remotely, and to support our favorite restaurants in our cities with online ordering. […]

PPHB: Energy Technology Musings Company Spotlight

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PPHB Energy Technology Musings Company Spotlight, March 2020 Source For this Company Spotlight, we interviewed Kahuna Workforce Solutions Co-Founder and CEO, Jai Shah, about their efforts to transform competency management and workforce planning. Kahuna is a cloud-based platform that helps organizations get an objective view of their workforce’s capabilities, measure their talent supply against current […]

7 Competency Management Best Practices

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There’s no need to re-invent the wheel. Download our 7 competency management best practices and leverage the work of those who’ve gone before you. Get your copy today.

2019 Year In Review

As we embark on not only a new year but also a new decade, we must reflect on a tremendous 2019 and some exciting announcements for 2020. The Facts (pretty impressive stuff…) We realized growth in some pretty important areas of our business in 2019. The very nucleus of Kahuna is the people who carry […]

Skills Management and AR/VR

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  What’s your HR digital strategy? Does it include advanced training technology like augmented and virtual reality? Should it? Augmented reality (AR) uses computer-generated images superimposed over real-world objects or spaces. In virtual reality (VR), the entire environment and experience are computer-generated. Both are well-suited to many different skills management training scenarios. Benefits of Utilizing […]

5 Reasons to Include Competency Management in Your Digital Strategy

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Before we get started, let’s discuss the digital transformation. What is it?  Human Resource operations and processes are moving “out of the spreadsheet.” Successful HR departments are becoming automated and data-driven, taking advantage of the latest technology to support an evolving workforce. While we refer to this change as the “Digital Transformation”… it’s really a […]

5 Benefits of Prioritizing Professional Development

Why is Professional Development Important? Finding and keeping talent is no longer merely a human resources challenge. In an age when more than 70% of organizations cite capability and skills gaps as one of their top five challenges, having a strong culture of professional development with skills management, is now a strategic business priority. Here […]