Structuring Data into Skills and Competencies: Underpinning AI-Augmented Leadership Development

Since ChatGPT was released over 18 months ago, the potential for AI to have a significant impact in leadership development has become increasingly clear. To maximize AI’s efficacy in talent development, it needs structured data—specifically, data organized into skills, capabilities, or competencies at various levels for different roles. This structured approach allows AI to deliver hyper-personalized and adaptive learning experiences and enables learning leaders to make data-informed decisions that maximize individual and organizational growth.

Why Structuring Data into Skills and Competencies Matters

AI’s effectiveness hinges on the quality and organization of the data it processes. In the context of leadership development, this means having a clear, structured understanding of the skills and competencies required for different leadership roles within your organization. Here’s why this is crucial:

• Personalization of Learning: AI can analyze structured skills data about strengths and gaps and data about learners’ goals to tailor learning experiences to individual needs.
  
• Learning Adaptation: By structuring data into a competency and skills model, AI can quickly identify changes in an individual’s or group’s capabilities, enabling continuous adaptation of the learning plan and specific learning delivery as leaders grow and change.
  
• Scalability: Structured data allows AI to scale leadership development efforts across the organization, providing consistent and effective enablement, training and coaching to all leaders.
  
• Better Decision-Making: With the right competency and skills model in place, learning leaders can make data-driven decisions about where to allocate resources, which group learning programs to prioritize, and how to measure behavior change resulting from these initiatives.

New Level Work’s Expertise in Competency and Skills Modeling

At New Level Work, we’ve already built a leadership framework that defines competencies and skills for the 3 most important cohorts learning leaders can focus their resources on: 

• Drivers: Business Unit Leaders just below the senior executive layer who drive change by transforming business objectives and strategies into execution. 
• Accelerators: High Performance/High Potential Managers who are another layer down are skilled, ambitious, and represent a significant source of operating advantage if properly directed and inspired. 
• Emerging Managers: With the right support, managers in their first few years of leading people can make tangible contributions almost immediately. Without the skills and mindset required for effective frontline management, an organization’s foundation is unstable.

New Level can translate your existing skills and competency models into our structure—and back again—seamlessly. This flexibility ensures that your organization can continue to use your existing frameworks while benefiting from the advanced capabilities of our human-led and AI-powered solutions. When you partner with New Level Work, you gain access to our expertise in analyzing leader and manager skills, identifying gaps, and providing actionable learning recommendations. We leverage AI to help you understand where your leaders stand and also chart a clear path for their development, ensuring that they—and your organization—thrive.

Why Partner with New Level Work

Creating a skills and competency model is a complex process, and structuring data for AI requires a very specific technical skill. While it’s possible to develop these models internally, partnering with experts like New Level Work can significantly accelerate the process and ensure you’re leveraging AI to its fullest potential.

With our many years of expertise in delivering high-quality human-led leadership development, combined with our advanced AI capabilities, we can help you analyze your leaders' skills and competencies, identify strengths and gaps, and provide targeted learning recommendations that drive tangible business outcomes. Our tools integrate seamlessly with your existing systems, making enhancing your leadership development programs easier than ever.

Contact us to learn more about how we can help you analyze leader and manager skills, close gaps, and drive growth in your organization.

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