What is Yardstick?
- Skill assessment tool with your SETA requirements
in mind.
- Ascertain skill and level of knowledge
.
- Tracking progress
of training and progression of your staff.
- Determine the training needs
of your organisation
- Determine scarce and critical skills
with in your organisation
- Assist in the development of the sector skills plan of your SETA
- Assist in generating portfolio of evidence
for trainees.
- Assists the training manager in developing workplace skills plan
and completing an annual training report
.
- Determination of training and knowledge bands
.
- Graphic representation of HR and training statistics
.
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Some of the features
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Assess various skills using pre-defined assessments.
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Create your own assessments with yardstick's user friendly interface.
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What are the benefits?
- Money saving
- Assess training needs to limit excess spending
- Reduces time spent away from the office
- Reduces cost of training
- Improves focus of training
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Where can we streamline your organisation?
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Recruiting and human resource
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Performance management
- Management of organisational development & training
Let’s explain, an employee needs to improve his/her computer skills,
you need to find out what he/she already knows. With Yardstick you find out that your employee is proficient in MS Word, PowerPoint and Access, and find that he/she is lacking in the intermediate level of Excel.
Yardstick Benefits and Applications for:
Individuals
- Retention over time period
- Skills gaps – work not learned or requiring greater understanding
- Areas of aptitude or greater proficiency
- Possible applications for being transferred to a different business unit where greater productivity and benefit can be harnessed from the individual.
- Performance management adjunct
Groups
- Assessment of the average ability in a group on a particular course/topic
- Assess the skills gaps within a group
- Determine the short and longer term effectiveness of a training course for a group – develop group effectiveness statistics
- Develop effectiveness statistics relating to a trainer and the groups that are trained by that person
Departments
- Performance appraisals between departments or business units.
- Comparison between the success rates + skill rating of different business units
- Identify weaknesses and strengths within groups pertaining to information they have learned and how much has been retained. Also refers to what specific areas have been retained – aptitude of a group to remember certain types of content and courses.
Courses
- Which courses are retained in memory longer and more easily
- Which courses have the greatest or poorest success rate
- Where are the largest skills gaps (in which courses)
- Proficiency in which courses produce the best all-round individuals in terms of their job specs and requirements
- Assessment of individuals according to the required level of proficiency in a course for succession-planning purposes.
- Succession planning matrix based on the needs of the job and the goals of the individual