Latest Book

Dennis Kravetz' latest book is entitled Measuring Human Capital: Converting Workplace Behavior into Dollars. This book tackles the "holy grail" of human capital measurement, converting human behavior into dollars in a wide variety of situations. Dennis shows how anyone, by gathering easily available information, can set up metrics to measure human capital. Once established, these metrics enable individuals to calculate the dollar value of planned or completed people management changes.

Measuring Human Capital is loaded with case studies that document the amount of money that can be gained by improved people management practices. Readers can see the dollar value, for example, of management coaching, reducing bureaucracy, effective training, and implementing better selection tools. Simple equations enable anyone to calculate the dollar impact of many changes at their organization. This breakthrough book is now available for purchase on our website for $34.95 plus $4.95 for shipping.

The Competence Expert is now available over the Internet!

Our job competency software The Competence Expert is now available over the Internet. Though the software is typically installed on an organization's internal server, we can set up a private website for your organization's personal use. When set up in such a way, we are an ASP for job competencies, learning resources, selection resources, assessment tools, and even pay-for competencies compensation systems. Kravetz Associates does the web hosting in your behalf so you have nothing to worry about. Alternatively, you can run The Competence Expert from your own server.

Version 2.1 of The Competence Expert has unlimited capacity to store performance appraisals, 360 degree reviews, and self-assessments. All of these are in confidential files that can be accessed only by the person who created them. A manager can save as many performance appraisals or 360s as needed. Individual development plans are merely a mouse click away. Hundreds of books, training courses, and action items can be chosen as well as any supplemental resources that are desired. The completed appraisals, 360 degree reviews and individual development plans can be e-mailed to others for review. This automated way of doing appraisals and 360s makes life easier for your managers and employees. More importantly, by having clearly defined performance metrics and many resources for development, your employees will be able to build needed competencies and improve performance.

Version 2.1 also allows for 360 degree reviews to be done in a totally confidential way. The individual being rated cannot tell who rated them, but only see the actual ratings which were completed. And you can do 360 degree reviews for free! (average cost of $225 per rating from various vendors). In fact, if you took the money being spent on 360 degree reviews and bought The Competence Expert instead, your organization typically saves money! One client is saving $465,000 per year by eliminating the costly scoring of 360 degree reviews! And then you have so many development tools to pick from which are tightly linked to each competency.

The Competence Expert enables you to do the following:

• Store job competencies (yours and/or ours) for each job
• Have automated job descriptions for all of your jobs
• Conduct 360 degree reviews, performance reviews, and self-assessments electronically on job competencies
• List training courses, workshops or seminars linked to each competency
• Have a portal to take you to any self-study course directly from our software (or go to an LMS enrollment function for classroom courses)
• See on-the-job action items linked to each competency
• See books and articles that build each competency
• Enable employees to put together career plans
• Put together meaningful succession plans
• Establish a career development system by showing the exact competencies needed for any job
• Select employees more accurately by using interview questions linked to competencies.

The Competence Expert comes with 12 leadership, 6 business and 5 technical job competencies, 15-25 books that build each competency, 15-25 courses that build each competency, and 25-39 action items that build each competency. The content has been extensively researched and developed based upon our consulting work with over 100 organizations in the job competency area. The content is also updated each year. This is definitely the state-of-the-art product in the competency area.

You can edit any of the information on the software by adding your own training courses, adding your own competencies, etc. through the included Editor. The Competence Expert will enable you to get job competency information and development tools to the desktops of each of your employees quickly and easily. See other portions of our web site for details or give us a call.