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Leadership competencies vs skills: why the difference changes how you assess
Most leadership frameworks stop at fluffy labels like "strategic vision." Break each competency into 3 to 6 underlying skills with observable behaviors and assessment, baselining, and development all start working again.
Huneety Team · April 30, 2026
360 vs performance review: when to use each
360 assessments and performance reviews look similar but solve different problems. Here is the decision frame for choosing the right tool, when to run both, and the mistake that breaks both at once.
Simon Carvi · April 28, 2026
How to build a competency framework
How to build a competency framework that stays alive: five entry points, the granularity decision, a step-by-step process, and the deployment models that determine whether the framework reaches people or dies on the shelf.
Huneety Team · April 24, 2026
Individual development plans
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IDP best practices for HR teams
Operational best practices for running IDP programs at scale: manager buy-in, gap focus, 70/20/10 balance, and quarterly cadence.
Huneety Team · April 17, 2026
Top 5 mistakes companies make with IDPs
The 5 most common IDP mistakes HR teams make, and the practical fixes that turn plans on paper into real growth. Paperwork over practice, gap-only framing, untrained managers, no business anchor, no follow-through.
Huneety Team · April 16, 2026
Getting started with IDPs: a practical HR playbook
Most IDP programs fail at the launch, not the framework. The operational playbook: manager training, PM integration, quarterly cadence, and how to avoid the three predictable traps.
Huneety Team · April 15, 2026
360 assessment
View all →360 vs performance review: when to use each
360 assessments and performance reviews look similar but solve different problems. Here is the decision frame for choosing the right tool, when to run both, and the mistake that breaks both at once.
Simon Carvi · April 28, 2026
Running 360 assessments in Southeast Asia: a practical guide
How indirect-feedback cultures (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam) change rater selection, scale design, anonymity, and debrief style in 360 programs.
Huneety Team · April 17, 2026
What is a 360 degree assessment?
What a 360 assessment is, how the five rater groups work, and when to use 360 vs 180 vs self-only.
Huneety Team · April 17, 2026
Competency frameworks
View all →Leadership competencies vs skills: why the difference changes how you assess
Most leadership frameworks stop at fluffy labels like "strategic vision." Break each competency into 3 to 6 underlying skills with observable behaviors and assessment, baselining, and development all start working again.
Huneety Team · April 30, 2026
How to build a competency framework
How to build a competency framework that stays alive: five entry points, the granularity decision, a step-by-step process, and the deployment models that determine whether the framework reaches people or dies on the shelf.
Huneety Team · April 24, 2026
What is competency mapping?
What competency mapping is, how it works, and how HR teams use it to connect assessments to development.
Huneety Team · April 17, 2026
Skills & workforce
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A practical guide to skills gap analysis
Step-by-step process for running a skills gap analysis: framework, assessment, heatmaps, burden score, and development actions.
Huneety Team · April 17, 2026
How to measure training ROI with assessment data
How to tie L&D spend to competency movement using before-and-after assessments, catalog gap mapping, and burden score reduction.
Huneety Team · April 17, 2026
Skills taxonomies for workforce planning: a practical guide
A skills taxonomy is the foundation of workforce planning when it's tied to strategy, integrated with performance, and shared beyond HR. Practical points from the AIHR HR Dialogues podcast with Huneety co-founder Simon Carvi.
Huneety Team · April 16, 2026
L&D
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Why leadership development programs fail without assessment
Most companies run a leadership program by buying training. They book the workshops, deliver the content, and count completions. The data they did not collect before the program started is what determines whether it changed any behavior.
Simon Carvi · May 8, 2026
Why learning programs fail (and how to fix them)
Most learning programs fail because the learning isn't applied, isn't visible, and isn't owned by leaders. Three failure modes, three patterns of L&D that sticks, and what separates the two.
Huneety Team · April 15, 2026
Why employees aren't learning (even when you've invested)
You invested in learning. So why don't employees learn? Five honest statements employees actually make, and what HR can do about each one (without adding mandatory learning hours).
Huneety Team · April 15, 2026
leadership
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