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3.4 Checking the authenticity & integrity of the self-assessments

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Graham Kennedy
Last updated: Feb 28, 2023
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SkillsTX strives to provide skill inventory self-assessments and functionality that encourages people to self determine their own skills with honesty. Our self-assessment tutorials are designed to provide an understanding of why authenticity is important. We also encourage organizations to provide their own awareness communication that is relevant to the organization reasons for "Why are we doing this". All this is designed to limit the need for the "old school" of having to validate people's skill profiles as standard procedure.

We really do believe that the best people to capture their own skills are the people themselves. Given the right messages, we have found that in general the trend is towards authenticity.

In addition:

  1. We provide analytical functionality to highlight outliers, should there be concerns

  2. We encourage discussions, as a first cab off the rank, to bring possible outliers back to a more authentic state

  3. We provide a simple mechanism that allows managerial style tick of approval of a persons self-assessed skill profile

  4. We also provide functionality for a more stringent endorsement (sometimes referred to as SFIA Endorsements) if such an action is ultimately found necessary.

Possible Demo actions

  1. The first step would be to use the analytics provided to check for outliers.

    1. Login using r.leadbetter.skillogger.com

    2. Select Admin/Analytics

    3. Show the Outlier Analysis analytics:

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    4. Kristel Esh has been highlighted as a possible issue with a larger profile than the average.

    5. Willowdean Stam also has a high skill count, but he is actually still a Candidate for the CISO position, and so will be involved in an interview as a matter of course.

  2. Possible Actions based on the fact Kristel’s Profile appears to need closer examination:

    1. Select Admin/Manage Endorsements and Reports

    2. Search “k.esh” to filter for Kristel

    3. Select Edit to display Kristel’s Profile etc

  3. It may require that a discussion is still required to reduce Kristel's skill selections

  4. And possibly an updated Endorsement Profile for Kristel generated

  5. This can then be Reviewed and Endorsed as required

  6. Kristel may then want to replace her Current Self-Assessed Profile with her Endorsed one

Alternatives to a full Endorsement:

  • Kristel could have had a discussion with her Manager or other suitable person and encouraged to make changes to her own self-assessed Profile via the Planner

  • Once the changes were made there is an option for her manager, Estelle Kirby, to Approve Kristel's skill profile via Estelle's Planner.









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