1. Hi Group,A Worksheet for Measuring Competencies
A checklist you can use to rate the competencies of a workplace learner.
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Workplace learning competence is the ability to be effective in learning in real time in workplace
settings. Use this instrument to rate the competence of a workplace learner who is known to you.
There is not a scorecard – it is up to you to use this as you best see fit.
For each competency listed, rate his or her level of perceived competence. Use the following scale:
1 = Not applicable.
2 = I perceive him or her to be functioning at a less than effective level in his or her present
workplace on this workplace learning competency.
3 = I perceive him or her to be functioning at a somewhat effective level in his or her present
workplace on this workplace learning competency.
4 = I perceive him or her to be functioning at an effective level in his or her present workplace on
this workplace learning competency.
5 = I perceive him or her to be functioning at a highly effective level in his or her present workplace
on this workplace learning competency.
Then, place a number from 1 to 7 to indicate how important you believe it to be for this person to
improve this workplace learning competency. A 1 indicates that taking action to build this workplace
learning competency is of highest priority. A 7 indicates that improvement on the competency is of
lowest priority.
FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES
Reading skill: Read to a level of proficiency appropriate for learning in a workplace setting.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Writing skill: Write to a level of proficiency appropriate for learning in a workplace setting.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Computation skill: Apply mathematics to a level of proficiency appropriate for learning in a
workplace setting.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Listening skill: Listen effectively and to a level of proficiency appropriate for learning in a workplace
setting.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5

2. How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Questioning skill: Pose appropriate questions to others and obtain meaningful and unambiguous
answers to those questions.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Speaking skill: Speak to individuals or present to groups with a level of proficiency appropriate for
learning in a workplace setting.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Cognitive skills: Think, draw conclusions, think creatively, make decisions, and solve problems.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Individual skills: Demonstrate a willingness to accept responsibility and display self-esteem.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Resource skills: Allocate such resources as time, money, people, and information appropriately to
learn in the workplace.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Interpersonal skill: Work cooperatively with others, carry out formal or informal training or
mentoring of others, and maintain effective interpersonal relations with customers.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2

3. Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Informational and technological skill: Acquire and analyze data from various sources.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
INTERMEDIATE COMPETENCIES
Systems thinking: View organizations and work from a systems perspective.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Personal mastery: Show willingness to learn and take pride in learning .
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Mental modeling: Create, communicate, and critique ingrained (and otherwise taken-for granted)
assumptions, beliefs, or values.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Shared visioning: Formulate, communicate, and build enthusiasm about shared views of the future.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)

4. Team learning skill: Participate effectively and actively in workplace groups and use dialogue and
other approaches to formulate, communicate, and test ideas generated by himself or herself or
others.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Self-knowledge: Demonstrate awareness and understanding of self as learner.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Short-term memory skill: Remember facts, people, and situations for short time spans, usually
about 48 hours or less.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Long-term memory skill: Remember facts, people, and situations for longer time spans, usually
exceeding 48 hours.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Subject matter knowledge: Possess a solid foundation of background knowledge on the issue or
subject that he or she sets out to learn about in the workplace.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Enjoyment of learning and work: Display joy in the learning process itself and in the work that he or
she performs.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4

5. Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Flexibility: Show a willingness to apply what he or she knows in new ways as conditions warrant
their application.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Persistence and confidence: Show determination to pursue new knowledge or skill, even when
finding it or mastering it proves more difficult than expected.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Sense of urgency: Display sensitivity to the importance of time to self and others.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Honesty: Give information in a straightforward manner, free of deception, and elicit similar behavior
from others.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Giving respect to others: Defer to others with more experience or knowledge.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
THE PERCEPTIVIST ROLE
Work environment analytical skills: Examine work environments for issues or characteristics

6. affecting human performance.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Sensory awareness: Show sensitivity to stimuli received from the outside world based on the use of
any one or all of the five senses.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Open-mindedness: Demonstrate a willingness to see, to observe, and to internalize what the world
presents and reinterpret it afresh.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Humility: Display modesty about what he or she does or does not know, a willingness to listen to
fresh perspectives without pretending to know when he or she does not know.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Analytical skill (synthesis): Break down the components of a larger whole and reassemble them to
achieve improved human performance.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Intuition: Show sensitivity to stimuli generated by him or her from memory or from the application
of nonverbal logic.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4

7. Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
THE INFORMATION-GATHERER ROLE
Information-sourcing skill: Identify the kind of information needed to satisfy curiosity and show an
ability to locate such information from credible sources.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Information-gathering skill: Collect information by talking to others, asking questions of others,
facilitating groups to answer questions, and finding information from other sources.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Information-organizing skill: Organize or structure information obtained from one or many sources
and categorize it into schemes that permit recall, comparison, or creative reexamination.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Feedback solicitation skill: Display an ability to solicit feedback on what he or she has learned from
others.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
THE ANALYST ROLE
Willingness to experiment and gain experience: Show an openness to try out new ideas or
approaches, even when they are untested or their results are unknown.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Internalization skill: Translate general knowledge or information into specific information that can be

8. immediately applied or tested.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Application of new knowledge skill: Use new knowledge or skill in harmony with the way it was
described or characterized from the original source(s).
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Ability to adapt knowledge to new situations or events: Use new knowledge or skill in creative,
unusual, or novel ways.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
THE EVALUATOR ROLE
Critical examination of information skill: Reflect on what was learned critically, offering follow-up
questions or new ideas based on the information.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important
Learning how to learn skill: Reflect on how he or she acquired new information or knowledge and
find ways to improve the acquisition and application of new knowledge or skill in the future.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important)
Self-directedness skill: Display a willingness to be proactive about his or her own learning, to take
action without needing to be directed to learn or to act by other people.
Not applicable: 1
Less than effective: 2
Somewhat effective: 3
Effective: 4
Highly Effective: 5
How important do you believe it to be to improve this workplace learning competency? (Rate from 1
to 7, with 1 = Most important).
HI THIS IS MEGHA IM ALSO DOING PROJECT IN COMPETENCY MAPPING HERE ARE SOME

9. DETAILS .IT WILL HELP YOU.
Anybody having any material or templates or projects to share with on "Competency Mapping for
HR Professionals". I have been asked to work on the topic and till now i am not at all clear on the
procedures or steps to be followed for Competency Mapping.
If anybody can help.............

10. DETAILS .IT WILL HELP YOU.
Anybody having any material or templates or projects to share with on "Competency Mapping for
HR Professionals". I have been asked to work on the topic and till now i am not at all clear on the
procedures or steps to be followed for Competency Mapping.
If anybody can help.............