{"id":103898,"date":"2023-06-03T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=103898"},"modified":"2023-06-05T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:50:21","slug":"competency-mapping-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/competency-mapping-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Competency Mapping Process: What It Is & How It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the competency mapping process? How should you organize your team<\/a> by their skills and abilities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employees need job titles<\/a> and descriptions so they know where they fit in with the company. Competency mapping ensures that everything is running smoothly by matching specific skills with certain roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below we’ll discuss how the competency mapping process works, as described in The 6 Types of Working Genius<\/em> by Patrick Lencioni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Mapping Genius<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lencioni encourages mapping your team members’ intelligence types out through a competency mapping process. This allows you to evaluate your team\u2019s current skillset and where improvements and\/or additions are advisable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To do this, Lencioni suggests listing each intelligence type<\/a> in the order it appears in the phases of work: Perceiving Opportunity, Innovating Solutions, Vetting Ideas, Mobilizing People, Supporting, and Seeing Things Through. Alongside each, place a field with two columns. In the left-hand column, put the team members who excel in that intelligence; on the right, list those who struggle with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lencioni doesn\u2019t map team members\u2019 intelligences here. Instead, Lencioni emphasizes that you should use the map primarily to visualize major strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the Most of Maps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lencioni asserts that using his team map is one of the most potent possible tools to engage employees with his intelligence model. As a result, it is a vital vehicle for enabling mutual understanding. Team mapping in itself is a popular implement for managers seeking to better understand their people. Forms of assessments and resulting maps are quite diverse in approach, topic, and complexity, and often entail financial investment to perform. Here are some best practices in administering them<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n