Competency Library and Mapping tools

Map clinical, leadership, and compliance competencies to roles, ensuring staff meet regulatory standards, are audit-ready and aligned with Magnet or Joint Commission requirements.

Define technical competencies for equipment operation, operator safety, quality assurance – ISO/QMS standards and continuous improvement across plants and sites.

Track regulatory, technical, and critical safety related competencies for high-risk environments, from operations to maintenance teams.

Build frameworks and skills matrices that capture operational activities – including forklift, vehicle, and warehouse safety competencies –  customer service, and regulatory requirements for distributed and mobile workforces.

Model fast-evolving technical skills, including agile frameworks, cybersecurity competencies, data analytics,  cloud and AI readiness and emerging digital skills.

Build workforce capability frameworks that support compliance, transparency, and upskilling.

One place for all competency definitions, with version control. A single source of truth.  Centranum provides a flexible, central competency repository that supports multiple frameworks, industries, and rating methods. AI-assisted tools make it easy to create and evolve competency models tailored to your unique context.

Core, leadership, regulatory and technical competency sets across industries and disciplines

Use Centranum’s libraries or import your own, use the edit tools to customize as needed. Version control keeps frameworks current.

Tailor rating scales scales, indicators, proficiency levels and validation methods.

Automatically generate  competencies specific to your role, industry, organization, operation to quickly fill any gaps in your framework.

Competency mapping connects job and leadership roles with the exact skills, knowledge, and behaviors required for success. By making these expectations explicit, organizations gain clarity for hiring, onboarding, performance evaluation, career planning, and workforce development.   They ensure that skills data reflects real role requirements, not just job titles.

Without competency mapping, organizations risk misaligned roles and inconsistent expectations. Mapping ensures transparency, enabling career pathways, succession planning, and targeted development.

Too often, roles are defined by tasks and responsibilities without linking them to the competencies people need to perform effectively. Competency mapping closes this gap by:

• Creating a transparent link between roles and workforce capability.
• Providing clarity for employees on what success looks like.
• Supporting consistent hiring, onboarding, and training decisions.
• Enabling career pathways and succession planning.
• Reducing risk by ensuring staff are competent for their responsibilities.

Centranum’s mapping tools let you create competency profiles by function, seniority, or project role. Profiles become the templates for assessment and workforce planning, giving you visibility of current readiness and future needs.

• Role-specific profiles for technical, functional, and clinical skills.
• Core and leadership profiles to embed organizational values and culture.
• Project or temporary role mapping for flexibility in changing environments.
• Multi-level proficiency options where deeper progression tracking is required.
• Validation workflows to secure buy-in from managers and subject matter experts.
• Version control to enable the updates you need to stay ahead, while preserving history.

Competency mapping is flexible — use it to define current job requirements or prepare for future workforce needs. Profiles, validation steps, and updates keep your competency framework aligned to real-world operations.

Match to purpose

• Values based competencies for performance appraisal
• Role profiles – core and functional/technical/clinical competencies
• Review job context and accountabilities – Establish what really matters.

Select competencies from the central library at the relevant proficiency level.

Validate the profile with staff, Managers and Subject Matter Experts to ensure accuracy and acceptance.

Mapped profiles are linked to assessments, performance reviews, and development plans. Update annually (or as operations evolve) to keep  requirements relevant in your competency management system.