18th - 19th October 2011
Fraunhofer IZS, Stuttgart, Germany
Learning - Competence - Performance
Thinking of competence management limited to employees and optimisation of working processes, definitely underestimates its range of performance.
Today competence management becomes more and more important since it provides solutions to main challenges of companies.
Established in an effective and efficient way, competence management...
- supports innovation processes,
- helps to prevent and compensate shortage of skilled labour,
- takes account of demographic problems,
- enables quick and effective implementation of companies' strategies,
- is the fundament of all HR related decisions.
Competence management is crucial for accomplishing these company challenges successfully and systematically. Thereby the most important aspect is the support of strategic decision processes in companies.
Often it is unrecognised that strategic decisions can only be made on the basis of company competences. In the future the decision security of strategic alignments will increasingly be determined by given competences or competences, which need to be developed.
Social megatrends as the demographic change and the increasing globalisation will increase the demand of competence management significantly. Shortage of skilled labour, decreasing product life cycles and therefore higher innovation dynamics or enhancing productivity are the central fields, which are relevant in this context. Competence management provides answers and solutions to problems and helps to identify and develop performance potentials within companies.
Especially in times of economic boom foundation must be laid, which helps to set you apart and maintain your competitive advantage.
These current developments and topics are the subject of the international Professional Training Facts conference which takes place on 18th and 19th of October 2011 and is organised by Fraunhofer IAO for the seventh time in succession. The conference offers practitioners and developers a forum for the exchange of information and experiences from organisational and personnel development. On the agenda are new trends and challenges as well as solutions and practice examples from a company perspective. National and international speakers from companies and research institutions present methods, concepts and strategies how to design the "Learning-Competence-Performance" triad for today and the future.
Target groups
The Professional Training Facts conference is most appropriate for in-company experts dealing with further training and competence management. Other target groups are:
- organisational decision-makers,
- experts from the educational sector as well as from the private and public sector, and
- application-oriented researchers.
Conference participants benefit from the event by
- gaining an overview about the most important topics, challenges, trends, and solutions,
- meeting experts from research and industry and becoming familiar with their points of view,
- enlarging their own personal network in the international community,
- experiencing good practice examples and solutions to get ideas for their own activities,
- sharing experience with speakers and other participants,
- receiving useful first-hand answers for implementation activities in organisations,
- finding partners for implementation projects from applied research and industry,
- understanding how to estimate the effectiveness of solutions outlined in the area of competence management with regard to time, cost and quality aspects.
