Downloadable Resources: Tools, Templates, and Examples
Resources to support the full workforce flow — from job role definition and capability requirements, through competence assessment, performance insight, and career decisions.
Each resource is tagged to show where it fits in the workforce management flow:
Job role → Capability → Competence → Performance → Career

Featured tools & templates
The most useful and commonly used resources—practical tools, diagnostics, and examples designed to produce immediate, usable outputs.
Capability–Competency–Skills Integrated Framework (2026)

A clear, visual model showing how roles, capability, competence, and skills connect.
What you get:
A shareable framework diagram you can use to align stakeholders and clarify terminology.
Flow tags
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF · Visual reference
Competence Debt Diagnostic Tool

Identify hidden competence gaps that increase operational, safety, or compliance risk.
What you get:
A scored diagnostic that highlights where competence has eroded over time, with guidance on what to fix first.
✔ Competence · 📊 Performance
PDF · 10–15 minutes
AI Readiness Diagnostic & Guide for IT Teams

Assess AI readiness across specialist IT domains including data engineering, MLOps, cloud architecture, analytics, AI agent development, and governance.
What you get:
A scored readiness checklist plus a detailed guide explaining skill requirements, hiring vs development decisions, and how to close gaps.
Flow tags
⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF · Scored diagnostic + 16-page guide
Tools & diagnostics
Interactive tools and checklists to assess current state, identify gaps, and support evidence-based decisions across roles, capability, competence, and performance.
Role Clarity Assessment Checklist

Are your job descriptions working for you?
What you get:
Checklist to quickly assess whether your role descriptions and expectations are clear enough to support performance and accountability.
💼 Job Role – 📊 Performance
PDF · 10-15 minutes
Capability Framework Maturity Checklist

Stages from static frameworks to live capability data that drives performance, assurance, and workforce readiness.
What you get:
A diagnostic tool to help benchmark against maturity stages, key indicators of framework effectiveness and common barriers
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF 20–30 minutes
Performance Diagnostic Tool

A poor performance diagnostic tool based on research in organizational psychology
What you get:
Questions in a decision flow diagram enable you to pinpoint the root cause of poor performance and how to fix it.
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence – 📊 Performance
PDF · 10–15 minutes
Competency Model Design Diagnostic

A competency or skills model that fits your organization depends on role patterns, rating needs, and assurance requirements.
What you get:
A diagnostic tool to help you find the right framework structure and a competency model template
✔ Competence
XLSX · Editable · 20–30 minutes
Competence Debt Diagnostic Tool

Identify hidden competence gaps that increase operational, safety, or compliance risk.
What you get:
A scored diagnostic that highlights where competence has eroded over time, with guidance on what to fix first.
✔ Competence · 📊 Performance
PDF · 10–15 minutes
Skills Gap Analysis checklist

Identify workforce gaps, plan targeted development, and stay audit-ready
What you get:
Step-by-step checklist providing a practical framework to run a skills gap analysis with confidence.
⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF · 10–15 minutes
AI Skills for IT teams diagnostic & Guide

Assess AI readiness across specialist IT domains including data engineering, MLOps, cloud architecture, analytics, AI agent development, and governance.
What you get:
A scored readiness checklist plus a detailed guide explaining skill requirements, hiring vs development decisions, and how to close gaps.
Flow tags
⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF · Scored diagnostic + 16-page guide
Skills Based Hiring Toolkit

A practical checklist, audit worksheet, and pilot planner to make skills‑based hiring work inside your organisation.
What you get:
Readiness checklist, internal audit worksheet, quick‑start pilot planner , benchmarks from industry research
⭐ Capability · ✔ Competence
PDF · 10-15 minutes
Templates & worksheets
Practical templates and worksheets you can adapt for your organisation—covering role definition, capability frameworks, assessments, and workforce planning activities.
Competency Management System ROI calculator

Excel-based tool to estimate the cost of your current competency management activities and project ROI for system implementation.
What you get
Simple tool to enter your existing costs and target improvements to see the potential savings and return over two years.
✔ Competence – 📊 Performance
XLSX- editable 10-15 minutes
Job Family Framework Template

Ready-to-customize Job Family Framework Template to structure related roles, define capability groupings, and establish clear progression pathways
What you get
Spreadsheet pre-populated with 11 common job families, 40 functional job areas, sample job roles & capabilities that you can adapt to create your own architecture
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability
XLSX – editable 20-30 minutes
AI Governance Templates & Checklists

Practical templates and checklists to support AI governance, risk oversight, and compliance activities within IT and operational teams.
What you get
7 step implementation plan and supporting templates for your documentation.
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – 📊 Performance
PDF 30-45 minutes
Example packs
Worked examples showing how competence, capability, and evidence can be structured, assessed, and reported in real organisational contexts.
Core (Citizenship) Competencies – Evidence-Based Example Pack

A worked example of core (citizenship) competencies proven in I/O research to positively impact organisational performance, showing how they can be defined structured and assessed in practice.
What you get
Includes examples for: Teamwork, Service Orientation, Conscientiousness, and Supporting the Organisation — each with 4 sub-dimensions and behavioral indicators.
⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF – Reference 10-20 minutes
Critical Thinking – Meta Competency Example Pack

Critical thinking is a universal core competency for complex decision-making.
What you get
6 elements defined by cognitive psychologists—interpretation, analysis, evaluation, reasoning, self-reflection, and explanation—with observable indicators for each. Practical descriptions you can adapt across proficiency levels or job families.
⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF – Reference 10-20 minutes
Clinical Competency Evidence Example Pack

An anonymized 3-page example pack
What you get
Evidence is captured in individual and team views, individual assessment composite (header, summary, drill-down), a team competency matrix with configurable vulnerability and flexibility indicators.
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF 10-15 minutes
Frameworks & implementation guides
Visual frameworks and step-by-step guides to help you design, refine, and operationalise workforce capability and competency systems.
Capability–Competency–Skills Integrated Framework (2026

A clear, visual model showing how roles, capability, competence, and skills connect.
What you get:
A shareable framework diagram you can use to align stakeholders and clarify terminology.
Flow tags
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF · Visual reference
An A–Z guide to Competency Management terminology

A-Z Glossary of Competency Management
What you get
The language of capability frameworks, assessments, and performance systems – avoid confusion and see how it all fits together
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence – 📊 Performance – 📈 Career
PDF 30-60 minutes

What is a competency

How to Develop Competency Models

How to define a Competency

AI Governance Guide

For HR, OD, L & D & Talent Management Leaders
What you get
Practical templates and checklists to support AI governance, risk oversight, and compliance activities within IT and operational teams.
PDF – 30-45 minutes
Five steps to building a Capability Framework that works

The proven process for creating a capability framework that delivers
What you get
A practical guide to designing capability frameworks that deliver real business value. Five proven steps for defining role requirements, linking capabilities to strategy, validating quality, and driving adoption. Includes examples.
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF – 15-20 minutes
Competency Management the Business Case

10 benefits of a competency management systems
What you get
Explanation of Competency, competency models, competency management systems together with in depth review of each of the 10 benefits
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF 15-20 minutes
Bias in Assessment
Research briefs
Research summaries and analysis to support strategic thinking, executive conversations, and long-term workforce decisions.

Skills Shortages 2023–2025
Research insights from OECD, McKinsey, and World Economic Forum. Explore what drives today’s global skills shortages and how they’re evolving to 2030.
What you get
The main shortage types, regional trends, generative AI’s impact on skill demand, and evidence-based strategies to build workforce capability and resilience.
⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF report 30-45 minutes

Staff Competence - impact on Organizational Efficiency - the Research
Organizational efficiency and its relationship to workforce competence.
What you get
How staff competence drives organizational efficiency – through role task performance, core, AI and leadership competencies.
💼 Job Role – ✔ Competence – 📊 Performance
PDF report 10- 20 minutes
Mis & Disinformation - Research
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Product sheets & platform overviews
Concise product information and fact sheets for sharing internally or supporting procurement and implementation discussions.
For detailed feature information, see the relevant product pages.
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Magnet Documentation Support – Centranum Factsheet
Overview of Magnet documentation requirements and how Centranum supports evidence capture, assessment, and audit readiness.
💼 Job Role – ⭐ Capability – ✔ Competence
PDF · Product factsheet (4 pages)
