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Competency Management Software

Digitize Your Competency Checklist

Managing competency data in disconnected systems and disparate spreadsheets is a thing of the past. Kahuna captures data across your organization in one robust competency management software system. You can make strategic talent and operational decisions using validated skills data, seamlessly integrated into your daily operations.

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Leading Organizations Across Industries

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Competency Management Software for Frontline & Technical Workers

Kahuna supports your full competency management program. Ensure competency assurance and development across your organization in one digitized platform.

Competency Development

Competency development is a strategic process aimed at enhancing the skills and capabilities of the workforce. Development programs foster a culture of continuous learning, engage employees, encourage career growth within the organization, and facilitate knowledge sharing. As business and industry needs evolve, ensure your workforce is proficient in their role requirements and capable of meeting production and efficiency goals.

Competency Assurance

Competency assurance is critical in regulated industries where precision, safety, and regulatory compliance are paramount. Tracking skills in a digitized competency management system enables real-time monitoring of compliance and skills data for employees, managers, and leaders. Mitigate lapses in proficiencies, systematically pull compliance reports for customers and regulatory bodies, and enhance operations with more qualified teams.

How Does it Work?

Curate, Assign, Assess, and Develop—In One Easy-to-Use Dashboard!

Each phase of the competency management process is critical in your competency program. If designed and implemented with your business needs in mind, your organization has the opportunity to leverage trusted skills data to identify talent and gain a better understanding of your workforce capability.

1. Curate and Standardize Skills Frameworks

Curation is the development, maintenance, and evolution of your organization’s skills framework.

Curate and Standardize Skills Frameworks

Curation makes sure your skills library and job roles are relevant to the business, and involves reviewing, adding, or archiving content periodically to keep the framework up to date.
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3. Assess Employee Proficiency

Evaluate employees based on their assigned skills to determine proficiency levels.

Assess Employee Proficiency

This process can look very different depending on how you structure your skills framework or the reasons for tracking the skill. Clarify who should be assessing and what should trigger the assessment.
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2. Assign Skills Based on Job Roles

Determine which skills are required for each employee based on their job role.

Assign Skills Based on Job Roles

Traditionally, assignment is done manually. As organizations mature their skills management programs, a digitized system like Kahuna is needed to automate the more complex skill and role assignments.
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4. Train, Develop, and Close Skills Gaps

Identify gaps and leverage resources like mentors or on-the-job experiences and trainings to achieve the desired level of proficiency.

Train, Develop, and Close Skills Gaps

Development is key in operational environments where a skills gap could increase the cost of poor quality or jeopardize the safety of the team. It’s important that your employees, managers, and those responsible for driving development have access to accurate skills gap data and the tools needed to close those gaps.
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"Kahuna is a system that is intuitive and easy to use for both administrators of the system and, most importantly, for the end-user. We are able to display all competencies and demonstrate compliance to governing authorities."

Talent Management Executive,

Conoco Phillips

“Kahuna has removed the manual process of tracking skills, certifications, training, and compliance requirements. We now have complete visibility into the capabilities of each employee and where gaps exist.”

Head of Crewing,

Yinson

“Kahuna enables us to standardize our clinical skills and nurse competency management processes while giving us flexibility in how we assign, assess, and develop our clinical staff in a variety of roles.”

Informatics Manager, PD,

Stanford Children's

“We wanted a system to support our employees as they navigate a rapidly changing environments. Kahuna will act as our source of truth, integrating with our other systems to tap into the real value of our workforce.”

Chief Human Resources,

Phillips 66

"Software is intuitive for end users, powerful for administrators, and operates flawlessly. Outstanding support. Great software, integrates perfectly with our other systems and has outstanding support/customer service. Robust competency management for field workers."

Director, Training & Competency,

FieldCore

"The biggest advantage for our teams besides "about to expire" notifications and avoiding penalties from authorities, is the analytic and reports function its a great tool for our managers to have an overview of their departments and plan ahead."

SLP HR Support,

Stanley Black & Decker

"Great company to work with! Great customer service. Always a prompt reply to questions or concerns. Better transparency for all those involved in the professional development of our nurses."

NICU NPD Practitioner,

Lurie Children's

“Our scheduling and dispatching processes are more efficient, we are improving the quality of work performed for customers, and our employees can own their development with an understanding of specific training needs.”

ED, Global Resource Ops,

NCR

Competency Assessment Software

Organizations use competency assessment software to capture, assess, and manage the knowledge, skills, and abilities of employees. Key features of Kahuna’s competency management software and assessment tool include:

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Skills Matrix​

Understand skills and capabilities at an employee, team, or organizational level in one dashboard view.

Skills Gap Analysis

Identify skills gaps and opportunities for employee development. Create targeted training programs to close skills gaps on time.

Competency Assessment​

Use flexible assessment forms and quizzes, competency checklists, on-the-job experience, and learning inferences to assess employee competency. 

Talent Finder

Identify employees with the right skills and competencies for each job. Quickly backfill roles in the case of attrition or unplanned absence. 

Training Programs​

Integrate required competencies with learning and training materials. Employees can quickly access and understand which competency requirements these resources coordinate with.

Career Paths​

Provide transparency for employees to explore career path options within the business. Create development plans or clinical ladder programs that will keep them on track.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Competency Management Software

Competency management is the process of identifying, managing, and developing workforce skills, knowledge, and experiences. Following a competency framework aligned to organizational needs, business leaders can make more informed and strategic decisions for talent management and operational capability.

A competency framework is the foundation for a competency management program. It ensures consistency in how skills, knowledge, and experiences are aligned with job roles and how proficiency is measured. Often, leaders in Human Resources, Learning and Development, and Operations work together to create a cohesive competency framework that reflects business goals. Using competency management software to manage the content ensures consistency across the business units, geographic locations, and operating environments.

Competency management software includes a variety of user-friendly features designed to help organizations manage, assess, and develop employee competencies. Features include a competency framework, skills matrix, employee dashboard, competency assessments, development plans, talent finder, analytics, and mobile functionality.

Competency management software helps organizations manage and develop their workforce’s skills and competencies to align them with business goals and ensure a skilled, more capable workforce.

Competency management in a digitized platform ensures employees, managers, and leaders can access the right skills and competency data on any device, anytime and anywhere. No more chasing down files and folders or Excel data. Whether at the bedside, on the plant floor, on the rig, or in the field, digitized competency management software provides transparent, validated skills and competency data to increase operational safety and quality, and help employees in their learning and development.