Benchmarking employee skills helps organizations understand workforce capabilities, identify skill gaps, and create learning paths for continuous development. This guide outlines the key activities involved in a typical skill benchmarking program and shows how WeCP facilitates seamless execution with its templates, assessments, automation, and real-time skill reports.
1. Identify Skill Benchmarking Needs
Typical Workflow:
Done informally through discussions with managers.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP offers strategic consulting, templates and mindmaps curated by experts to plan your benchmarking needs.
2. Create Organizational Skill Architecture
Typical Workflow:
Done manually using spreadsheets.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP offers strategic consulting, templates and mindmaps to create hierarchical skill architectures: job clusters → jobs → skill clusters → individual skills.
3. Create a Calendar for Skill Benchmarking
Typical Workflow:
Managed manually and internally with spreadsheets and planning tools
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP offers strategic consulting and resources to build an effective plan + calendar for your skill benchmarking project.
4. Create Assessment Plans for the Benchmarking
Typical Workflow:
Ad-hoc ; rarely aligned with business needs
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP SMEs and WeCP helps you in the creation of tailored skill assessment plans based on role requirements and business needs, saving time and effort. Also check for recruiting, for skill training
5. Design a Reliable Assessment Strategy
Typical Workflow:
Assessment strategies loosely structured ; lacking confidence around reliability, validity, integrity.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP offers strategic consulting services and pre-built assessment templates, ensuring assessments align with reliability and validity standards. Also check for recruiting, for skill training
Feature:
Strategic Consulting + Professional Services by WeCP + WeCP AI.
Tablestake / Differentiated:
Differentiated
6. Create Skill Assessments for Functional, Communication, and Behavioral Skills
Typical Workflow:
Separate tools used for different skill types.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP offers integrated skill assessments across domains, including functional, communication, and behavioral skills, ensuring consistency and comparability. Also check for recruiting, for skill training
Feature:
Integrated Skill Assessment Platform.
Tablestake / Differentiated:
Differentiated
7. Ensure Reliability, Validity, and Integrity of Assessments
Typical Workflow:
Integrity managed with manual supervision.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP uses statistical techniques to validate reliability, AI to ensure validity, and AI-powered proctoring capabilities to maintain integrity. Also check for recruiting, for skill training
Feature:
Reliability, Validity, Integrity Features.
Tablestake / Differentiated:
Differentiated
8. Build an Accessible, Fair, and Smooth Assessment Experience
Typical Workflow:
Assessment processes could be complex and inconsistent.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP provides a user-friendly interface, accessibility options, and a seamless experience for all employees, including real-time technical support. Also check for recruiting, for skill training
Feature:
Accessible and User-Friendly Assessment Platform.
Tablestake / Differentiated:
Differentiated
9. Run the Skill Assessments
Typical Workflow:
Managed with manual tracking of assessment schedules.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP automates the entire assessment lifecycle, from scheduling to proctoring and result tracking, ensuring smooth execution. Also check for recruiting, for skill training
Feature:
End to end Skill Assessment.
Tablestake / Differentiated:
Tablestake
10. Download and Validate the Results
Typical Workflow:
Results consolidated manually in spreadsheets.
With WeCP Capability:
WeCP provides real-time dashboards to download, validate, and analyze assessment results, with built-in analytics to highlight strengths and improvement areas. Also check for recruiting, for skill training
Feature:
Real-Time Dashboard + Downloadable Reports.
Tablestake / Differentiated:
Tablestake
Hope this guide helps you gauge how WeCP supports Employee Skill Benchmarking by offering templates, automation, integrated assessments, and real-time reporting. With WeCP, organizations can align employee development with business goals, ensure assessment reliability and integrity, and track improvements effortlessly.