Competency Products and Services

Competency Products and Services

PDI Ninth House has long been a pioneer in developing competencies that align with business strategy. Today, we’re focusing on helping clients think strategically up front, designing competencies that are relevant to the behaviors needed for role success, and partnering with technology firms to ensure that implementation and maintenance are smooth and easy.

Competency Products

PDI Ninth House offers pre-designed and calibrated competency libraries and frameworks that are specific to individual leadership levels. These licensed products are available in multiple configurations.

  • Competency Libraries
    • General Competency Library
    • Industry and Functional Libraries
  • Model Libraries
    • PDI Ninth House Performance Library
    • Performance Framework for Leaders
    • Performance Framework for Individual Contributors
  • Industry and Functional Frameworks
    • Performance Framework for Retail
    • Healthcare DNA
    • Alliance and Partner Frameworks
      • Performance Framework: Alliance Editions. Optimized for use with Oracle Fusion & EBS, SAP On-Premise & On-Demand, PeopleSoft, SuccessFactors, Lumesse, Cornerstone, Saba, and Taleo technology platforms.

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Competency Services

Competency Strategy

We’ll help you develop, manage, and communicate competencies that encourage people, drive business success, and align with your culture.

  • Develop a strategy for implementing and maintaining competencies.
  • Communicate changes in competencies and what the behaviors look like.
  • Reinforce and reaffirm adoption of new or changing competencies.

Performance Modeling and Success Profiles

We can help you define the behaviors, skills, and experiences required for success in every leadership role.

  • Define success profiles with specific behaviors and indicators.
  • Create a performance management system for measuring success.
  • Evolve success profiles to changing business needs.

Competency Mapping

We can help you link your competency model to the PDI Ninth House Performance Frameworks or General Competency Library, allowing you to take advantage of the corresponding complementary content and other PDI Ninth House capabilities.

  • Map at either the competency or the behavior level.
  • Blend the language that suits your organization with the research-based PDI Ninth House content.
  • Leverage your existing competency investment and 40-plus years of research at the same time.

Competency Communication and Implementation Services

We can help you make your competency models memorable, helping you roll them out with the highest effectiveness, gaining employee behavioral alignment.

  • Create a smooth implementation with customized change management programs.
  • Utilize the industry’s first competency imaging program to enhance your visual competency communication.
  • Benefit from PDI Ninth House’s multimedia expertise to create messages across multiple media and communications modes.