This presentation shares the experience of an organisation competence audit that lead to the production of an eportfolio that can then be used as a tool for organisational development.

1. The competence portfolio: Reflection for organisational renewal Samantha Slade Percolab.com October 17, 2007 ePortfolio 2007, Maastricht

2. Portfolios can help document and develop one’s competences and can be a valuable and empowering exercise for an individual. Photo, Kris Krüg, Flickr

3. The same is true for a team Foundphotoslj, flickr

4. and also for an organisation Photo, Jyri Engestrom, Flickr

5. The reflective exercise inherent in a portfolio process is useful for organisations to collectively take stock of how they developed over time and to strategically move forward. Photo: Melanie b, Flickr

6. Here is our experience of accompanying an artist-run print studio in Quebec through a competence portfolio process. Photo: http://samkerson.com

7. The process 1. Conduct a participatory audit of the organisations’ competences 2. Develop the organisational ePortfolio 3. Use the ePortfolio as a tool for organisational development Photo: Atelier Circulaire

8. 1.1 Organisational Culture Visit the organisation Analyse core documents Work with a group of representatives to clarify questions: ex. What brought you to the organisation initially ? and Why are you still here ? Photo: http://samkerson.com

9. 1. 2 Competence Framework A common vocabulary : competences, ty pical activities, indicators of performance etc. . Le Groupe Réseau Conseil pour le Conseil Québécois des Ressource Humaines en Culture, 2002, 51 pages.

10. 1.3 Competence framework Appropriation activity ex. placing the competences in order of importance with which the organisation addresses it, both for its present functioning and its future ideal functioning

12. 1.3 Activities Inventory Document current and past activities of the organisation for each competence. Photo: http://www.colba.net/~atelcirc/

14. 2. ePortfolio

15. 2. ePortfolio

17. Reaction from committee member “ It’s a perspective on us that we would have been incapable of structuring without never ending dispersing of ourselves. We now have our portfolio, which has an immediate use and long-term use for administrators”.

18. Reaction from committee member “ Very impressive - the sum of information gathered and the elements that came out of the process - It is really quite a task that you have accomplished.”

20. “ The health of the learning ecology of the organization depends on effective nurturing of information flow. ” George Seiman

21. Thank you Percolab.com Samantha Slade [email_address]