Ability® CMS
Identify, Assess, and Close Skill Gaps
Define job skill profiles assisted by PetroSkills skill libraries, conduct proficiency assessments, and generate actionable development plans to close the gaps.
This functionality empowers senior leaders and L&D pros to strategically align talent with organizational needs. Use it as a core part of Ability® or integrate it with your existing LMS.
Assess Skill Gaps
Unique competency profiles tailored to each job position provide clarity around the specific skills and proficiency levels needed for safe, effective job performance.
A wide range of assessment types – including self, supervisor, and online tests – identify both skill gaps and strengths to employees and leadership teams.
Self and Supervisor Cross Assessments
Employees self-assess against their assigned job profile using an intuitive “Quick Assess” slider, aligning their capabilities to the industry-benchmarked proficiency statements provided.
Supervisors and assessors use the same interface to cross-assess or verify employee competence selections, with all parties able to leave supporting notes, comments, and evidence as appropriate.
Better Informed, Less Subjective Assessments
Job position profiles are built from vetted competency frameworks that are continuously peer reviewed and updated by member companies of The Competency Alliance, ensuring assessment benchmarks reflect current and relevant industry standards.
Unique skill descriptions and task-level details for each level of proficiency promote more accurate, better informed, and less subjective assessments.
Personalized Development Recommendations
The system analyzes identified skill gaps to generate an intelligent list of recommended development activities, including those readily available from TCA’s library of training offerings, as well as any internal activities or 3rd party solutions approved by each client.
These recommendations are prioritized according to their potential impact and strategic importance. Recommended activities are visible to the employee, their supervisor, and system administrators.
Employee Dashboards
Customizable dashboards for employees, supervisors and administrators provide each user with immediate access to data snapshots relevant to their current assigned position, and supervisory rights or responsibilities within the system.
Intuitive interactivity within these dashboards allows immediate access to key team members and competency status pages.
Supervisor Dashboards
Supervisors can easily view team strengths, skill gaps and development progress allowing supervisors to optimally prioritize or coordinate development efforts.
Growth Positions
Promote transparency around the skills and competencies required across various roles in a discipline. Assign additional or alternative positions to each employee to define development progressions associated with future roles.
Subsequent assessment data then allows for integrated approaches to HRIS programs and organizational succession strategies.
Library of Industry Skills Competency Maps
Each PetroSkills’ Competency Map (or CMAP) defines the skills and tasks associated with an industry area of work, specifically defined across four distinct levels of proficiency.
PetroSkills CMAPs are continually and collaboratively reviewed and updated by our Alliance members, ensuring alignment to industry standards. They form the foundation of client-specific job competency profiles, and are automatically refreshed in the Ability® application.
Alliance Member Vetted Competency Maps
Business, Project Management, and Supply Chain Management
- Energy Business
- Land Management
- Project Management
- Supply Chain Management
- People Skills for Technical Professionals
Facilities Engineering
- Facilities Engineering All Rounder (upstream)
- Instrumentation, Controls and Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering: Rotating & Non-Rotating Equipment
- Corrosion & Materials Engineering: Corrosion Control and Materials
- Pipeline Engineering
- Reliability Engineering
- Offshore & Subsea Engineering
- Civil/Structural Engineering
- General Process Technology
- E&P Process Technology (Oil & Gas Processing)
- Utilities
Geoscience and Subsurface Engineering
- Geology
- Geophysics
- Petrophysics
- Production and Completions Engineering
- Reservoir Engineering
- Well Construction / Drilling
- Data Management (upstream)
Health, Safety, Environment
- HSE - Management
- HSE - Health
- HSE - Safety
- HSE - Environment
Operations & Maintenance
- Operations, Maintenance and Turnaround
- Management: Facilities Operations and Maintenance Management
Analytics and Reporting
The Ability® analytics package helps decision-makers identify skill gaps, forecast talent needs, and plan for training costs.
Analyze individual skill profiles to recommend tailored learning paths, that align with both employee goals and business objectives.
Automatically export Ability® competency data to your organization's data lake for use in Power BI or other analytics software.
Schedule reports to deliver critical insights directly to stakeholders and admins on a recurring basis, eliminating the need for manual report generation
Tools to Streamline Administration
Simplify workflows with a wide range of tools to facilitate rapid system administration. Features within the interface allow quick comparison and creation of new skill profiles, mass-imports of MS Excel-based assessment data, and large-scale upload development activities.
These tools, in cohesion with tailored guidance from our competency and software consultants, come together to bolster your program’s scalability and sustainability strategies.
Ability® Skills Management
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Skill Assessments
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Quick Assessments
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Dashboards
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Growth Positions
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Succession Planning
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Skill Gap Analysis
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Recommended Development Activities
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Analytics & Reporting
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Organizational Level Security
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Notifications
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Library of Skill Competency Maps
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Administrative Tools & Wizards
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Individual Development Plans
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Technical Specifications |
Supported Browsers
Chrome, Edge, Safari
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Security
GDPR compliant, SSL encryption, role-based permissions
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Scalability
Supports up to 100,000+ users
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