Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced the launch of a new monitoring service, Competency Watch. The service provides high-end, evidence-based information for companies to help employees at all levels develop core competencies - capabilities, skills, proficiencies, expertise and experience that add value to the company.
Leveraging competencies in employees, managers, and executives is essential to enhance individual effectiveness and develop leaders as well as to improve overall organisational performance. Competency Watch includes critical information regarding these professional competencies, information that is monitored and synthesized for rapid access and updated as new information becomes available. It provides organisations with quick, concise, unbiased summaries that match their core competencies and helps employees build the skills and knowledge they need to help the company gain a competitive advantage.
Competency Watch includes more than 200 evidence-based reports covering all aspects of professional 'soft skills' including business strategy, communications, team building, planning, innovation, entrepreneurship, human resource management, social responsibility, finance and diversity. Each report provides a definition and a summary pertaining to the competency as well as an investigation of how the competency applies to various individuals within the organisation. A case study is also provided highlighting the real-life utility of each competency.
Competency Watch has adapted EBSCO's core evidence-based methodology to areas of interest to corporate executives. The evidence-based approach identifies, selects and systematically evaluates pertinent information and creates a synthesis of the best available evidence. EBSCO's experience with evidence-based content includes the point-of-care resources it provides to hospitals and other medical institutions including the clinical decision support resource DynaMed. The company also offers similar executive decision-support tools based on proprietary, evidence-based content with Corporate Learning Watch, Food Industry Watch and Sustainability Watch.
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