Competency-based Training | Meaning & Definition | Akrivia HCM

Competency-based training is an instructional delivery model that integrates theories and practices related to workplace learning. The goal of which is to teach job skills required or competence. Competency-based training is a system by which the learner proceeds through the training curriculum according to their ability to master the topics covered in each lesson.

Advantages to Competency-Based Training:

1. Help employees learn job functions that best fit how they assimilate information and enhance their existing knowledge, skills, and abilities.
2. Employees can advance their skills faster through the hierarchy of competence than through traditional training methods.