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🚀 Are you looking to take control of your career development and enhance your professional skills? We’re excited to invite you to our SFIA Week event on 30 October! This session will provide practical guidance on building a personalised SFIA profile that highlights your strengths and identifies areas for development. Register today via the link in the comments! Our focus for this session will be on: ✨ Understanding the importance of a SFIA profile in career development 🛠️ Learning how to create and customize your own SFIA profile 🔍 Exploring how to use your SFIA profile to identify career opportunities and areas for improvement Don’t miss this opportunity to take control of your career development with SFIA. Register today to secure your spot! #sfia #sfia9 #sfia9launch #digitalskills #digitalcapability #leadershipdevelopment #personaldevelopment #careerdevelopment #professionaldevelopment #skillsprofile Tristan Boot

🌟 Introducing the HR Skills Cluster in SFIA 9! 🌟 HR professionals, take note! The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) is an essential tool for defining and managing skills in the digital world. Surprisingly, many HR professionals have low awareness of SFIA, but we’re on a mission to change that. Version 9 of SFIA is launching on 30 October, and we want you to be part of this exciting journey. Join us for SFIA Week events and see how SFIA can enhance HR practices! 🔍 Why should HR professionals adopt SFIA? SFIA provides a clear and structured way to define skills at multiple levels, making it easier to identify and develop the right talent. Incredibly useful for your digital and tech-adjacent portfolio groups - but there are also skills in there for you too! The HR Skills Cluster in SFIA 9 includes: ➡️ Employee Experience ➡️ Organisational Change Enablement ➡️ Organisational Facilitation ➡️ Performance Management ➡️ Professional Development ➡️ Resourcing ➡️ Specialist Advice ➡️ Stakeholder Relationship Management ➡️ Workforce Planning ➡️ And more! These are just a sample of the skills HR professionals use every day that are already present in SFIA . Not to mention the 147 skills in version 9 describing a wide range of digital skills! By adopting SFIA, you can be confident you have the right skills in place to meet the challenges of the digital age. 📅 Join us for SFIA Week! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to learn more about SFIA and how it can benefit your and your team. Attend our SFIA Week events and get involved! Check out the link below for the list of SFIA Week events and register today. Or for more details, get in touch with us at the Digital Skills Agency and we’d love to tell you more! #sfia #sfia9 #sfia9launch #hr #peopleandculture #hrskills #skillsframework #digitalcapability

Those with Activator in their top five want to do things now, rather than simply just talk about them, they crave action. If you have this strength high, you excel at rallying people around a common goal or activity. You’ll find it invigorating to engage in the initial phase of planning and getting others to participate. ⁠ Who are you bringing together to work towards a common goal? Tag these partners below. https://lnkd.in/gnmC2DKR

Leaders who are exceptionally talented in the #Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying what is wrong, and finding the solution to practical, conceptual and personal problems. If you have Restorative high, use your talents to devise a plan of attack to revitalize a flagging projector team. Implement an open-door policy that encourages team members to come to you for help with big issues. https://lnkd.in/gyiup4mZ

The SFIA 9 beta is here! Our SFIA Skill of the week is a prototype in the beta – Organisational Change Enablement! Do you think this skill might apply to your work? Let us know in the comments below! It’s exciting to see SFIA adapting to include skills that impact ways of working and current practice in team facilitation and leadership! We predict this skill will be of great interest to those in 'Agile Coach’ type roles, as well as project, change, HR and organisation design specialists. 💡 The sorts of activities we would expect to see with this skill include: ➡️ Facilitating engagement sessions with leaders and managers to secure commitment to change initiatives ➡️ Defining and delivering comprehensive communication plans to keep stakeholders informed and engaged ➡️ Supporting individuals and teams in adopting and adapting to changes ➡️ Implementing organisational change management practices to support iterative/agile working ➡️ And more! Check out the link in the comments to find out more about this prototype skill. Please note – SFIA 9 beta content is subject to change before the final v9 release later this year. If you’re curious about adopting SFIA for your own organisation, we’d love to hear from you, drop us a message today! 👋 #sfia #changemanagement #agile #agilecoach #organisationdevelopment #skillsassessment #digitalskills #digitalcapability #digitalskillsmanagement 

We’re very proud to sponsor ManawaTech's mentoring programme this year! Professional development is very close to our hearts at the Digital Skills Agency. We love supporting development in the digital world. 💡 Our Director Mary-Anne Merriott had a fantastic time last week in Palmerston North running a lightening learn session for ManawaTech’s mentoring program. The topic this time? Asking great questions. ✅ This is a hugely important skill for mentors – and valuable for us all in our everyday lives! Thanks for hosting us – we’re really proud to support ManawaTech’s work in the community and we had a great time doing it! 👋 Want to get to know us better? Check out the About Us page on our website (below) or drop us a message and say hi! #digitalcapability #digitalskillsmanagement #skillsbasedfuture #careerplanning #professionaldevelopment #continuingprofessionaldevelopment #digitalandhuman #skillsbasedtalent #funatwork

The SFIA 9 beta is here! Our SFIA Skill of the week is a prototype in the beta – AI and Data Ethics! 🤖 Do you think this skill might apply to your work? Let us know in the comments below! This is a great example of SFIA evolving to capture emerging and high value skills in tech. As such a topical area, we predict this skill will be of great interest to senior digital leadership and those in the AI/data/machine learning specialisms ✅ The sorts of activities we would expect to see with this skill include: 💡 Designing AI and data systems that embed ethical considerations 💡 Providing expert advice on ethical policies, procedures and governance 💡 Conducting ethical impact assessments to identify risks and ensure responsible use of technology 💡 Responding to ethical dilemmas and incidents 💡 And more! Check out the link in the comments to find out more about this prototype skill. Please note – SFIA 9 beta content is subject to change before the final v9 release later this year. If you’re curious about adopting SFIA for your own organisation, we’d love to hear from you, drop us a message today! 👋 #sfia #aiskills #dataethics #artificialintelligence #ai #aiethics #artificialintelligenceethics #ethics #skillsassessment #digitalskills #digitalcapability  #digitalskillsmanagement 

Mary-Anne is our Director and Principal Consultant, based in Auckland. Have you met Mary-Anne yet? Drop us a note in the comments and say hi! 👋 Mary-Anne leads the Talent Services side of our business, as well as our marketing and our SFIA assessment scheme. Her CliftonStrenths are: ❇️ Relator ❇️ Restorative ❇️ Positivity ❇️ Activator ❇️ Developer So, it’s obvious why she loves the people and development nature of the work we do! We love working with Mary-Anne because she genuinely cares about the team and is the first one to check-in if we go dark. Mary-Anne has driven the culture that makes us a very connected distributed team. Plus, she organises birthday treats – bonus!! 🍰 Mary-Anne loves tramping, rogaining and trail running, and is on a mission to find all the good wild swimming spots in the North Island. Her favourite restaurant is the Amisfield Bistro near Queenstown; or if we’re going global, The Three Chimneys on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. She’s most definitely a cat person and proud of it – there aren’t many team meetings where her grey girl Willow doesn’t join in! 🐱 Curious about our team and what we do? Let us know in the comments or get in touch via our website below. #digitalandhuman #funatwork #agilebusiness #agileteam #remoteteam #agilepeople #SFIArecruitment #relator #restorative #positivity #activator #developer

We're getting a lot of interest and web visitors to the SFIA 9 beta released this week. This is a reminder that you can register for the SFIA 9 beta release webinars - Wednesday 10th July https://bit.ly/3VNPdL9 Many thanks to volunteers around the world who have supported the development of SFIA 9 so far. To support our global audience, we will run the webinar 3 times at the following times. - Wednesday 10th July 07:00 UTC - Wednesday 10th July 13:00 UTC - Wednesday 10th July 17:00 UTC Register in advance by following this link https://bit.ly/3VNPdL9 A recording of at least one of the webinars will be made available. https://bit.ly/3VNPdL9