When your firm’s core assets walk out the door every night, how can you insure that the knowledge base of your employees is secure and growing? Add to this the impact of retirement when potentially decades of skill and talent leaves, and you can begin to understand the value of a methodical approach to capturing existing skill and knowledge sets within your firm, modeling your experts’ capabilities, codifying them, creating methods for transferring them through training, mentoring, coaching, and workload sharing, and measuring competency development to promote accountability and reinforce the message.

ZweigWhite helps you address your firm’s knowledge capture and development needs with a comprehensive approach. Key areas include:

• Development of Expert Models to capture attributes, knowledge, and approaches used by your the highest performing staff, discipline by discipline
• Identification of mission critical Core Competencies across your firm’s workforce
• Implementation of methods and tools to capture each employee’s score on all of the identified competencies
• Dashboards that quantify Flexibility and cross training by person, activity, department, and by overall company
• Creation of company, department, and individual Skill Development Plans with measured goals and timelines for achievement

After the design and implementation of custom tools tailored to your firm’s unique learning and knowledge needs, a competency development map is created that assists with hiring decisions and contributes to identifying the highest and lowest performers. Consistent use of the tools and iteration of the process builds the core of your firm’s knowledge base while ensuring that all managers and employees maintain a strong focus on capturing and growing competencies.

High performing, high potential employees expect to be challenged with new learnings and assignments. It is essential to understand the return on investment in skill management, whether in project management, leadership, business development, or technical areas. Competency development benefits the entire firm.

Why team with ZweigWhite to optimize your firm’s competency development and management process?

• Our industry experience. We're solely dedicated to and focused on the AEC industry so we understand the unique and common challenges faced by firms like yours
• Our consultant experience. We're experts from the industry weaving marketing, finance, project management, change management, and leadership expertise into our projects
• Our approach. We work closely with your executive team and employees—bringing the best practices, the right tools, and solid training that provide measurable results. We believe that it’s not what we give you, but what you keep that matters most
• You are a people business. Your employees are the engine of your business. Capturing knowledge before it leaves, continuously growing your capabilities, and creating a challenging and fulfilling environment is a significant competitive advantage