Competency Library and Mapping tools
The foundation for Skills/Competency Based Management
Build a consistent, scalable competency framework for your competency management system. With Centranum’s Competency Library and Mapping tools, you can define, organize, and align the knowledge, skills, and behaviors your workforce needs—then map them directly to roles, performance, and development plans.
Why you need a competency library
A competency library provides a single source of truth for the skills and behaviors your organization needs. It ensures clarity in expectations, consistency in assessment, and alignment of workforce capability with business goals.
With a well-structured library, organizations can:
- Set clear expectations – define what good performance looks like across every role.
- Align strategy and skills – ensure workforce capability matches business objectives.
- Enable fair assessments – evaluate staff consistently using shared definitions.
- Support growth and mobility – show employees what skills they need for advancement.
- Focus development – link learning resources to specific gaps for efficient upskilling.
- Drive compliance – document required skills and behaviors for regulatory or safety standards.
Industry Examples
Centranum’s competency library is designed to work across industries where accuracy, compliance, and role clarity matter most. A few examples:
Healthcare
Map clinical, leadership, and compliance competencies to roles, ensuring staff are audit-ready and aligned with Magnet or Joint Commission requirements.
Manufacturing & Engineering
Define technical competencies for equipment operation, safety, quality assurance, and continuous improvement across plants and sites.
Utilities & Energy
Track regulatory, technical, and safety-related competencies for high-risk environments, from operations to maintenance teams.
Logistics & Transport
Build frameworks that capture operational, customer service, and regulatory requirements for distributed and mobile workforces.
Technology & IT
Model fast-evolving digital skills, from cybersecurity and data analytics to cloud and AI readiness.
Government Public Sector
Align core, leadership, and functional competencies with strategic outcomes and transparent workforce capability standards.
Competency Library Key Features
Central Repository
One place for all competency definitions, with version control. A single source of truth.
Multi Framework support
Core, leadership, and technical competency sets across industries and disciplines
Dynamic content
Use Centranum’s libraries or import your own, use the edit tools to customize as needed.
Configurable competency measurement
Tailor rating scales scales, indicators, proficiency levels and validation methods.
AI assistant
Generate competencies specific to your industry, organization, operation and job roles to fill gaps in your framework quickly.
Competency Mapping Tools
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.
Why Competency Mapping is important
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.
Competency Mapping - Key Features
- 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.
How to use competency mapping in practice
Profiles types
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.
Map the Profile
Select competencies from the central library at the relevant proficiency level.
Validate
Validate the profile with staff, Managers and Subject Matter Experts to ensure accuracy and acceptance.
Review and update
Mapped profiles are linked to assessments, performance reviews, and development plans. Update annually (or as operations evolve) to keep competency requirements relevant.