PRISM™: Building Core & Occupational Competencies with AI

Build clear, performance-aligned competency drafts using industry best practices, accelerated with AI and validated through structured employee input.

This certification helps HR and L&D teams create usable first-pass competencies they can immediately apply across hiring, development, and evaluation, saving weeks of design time.

The Problem with Most Competency Models:

  • Definitions are vague, inconsistent, or disconnected from real performance
  • Expectations vary by manager, team, or location
  • Competencies don’t translate into interviews, training, or evaluation
  • Generic “competency libraries” don’t reflect real jobs
  • Roles evolve faster than competencies are updated

 

Why Competencies Matter

You can’t hire, develop, or evaluate consistently without a shared understanding of what effective performance looks like.

Clear core business and occupational competencies create alignment across roles and levels—so leaders, employees, and HR teams make decisions based on performance, not preference.

This program focuses on the early stages: drafting performance-aligned competencies quickly and validating them with the people closest to the work.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS CAN EXPECT

  • PRISM™ certification and competency-building toolkit
  • First-pass competency templates (core + occupational)
  • A practical method for drafting clear, measurable competencies
  • A structured approach for validating and refining drafts through employee interviews
  • Live iteration with facilitator feedback
  • Confidence using AI to support, not replace professional judgment

 

2026 COURSE SCHEDULE & INTEREST LIST

2026 courses will begin in late March, with additional sessions scheduled throughout the year.
Join the interest list to receive early access to course dates, enrollment details, and priority registration.

Monthly cohorts are intentionally small to allow for meaningful practice and scoring calibration.

Join the 2026 Waiting List

How the Method Works

This program uses structured AI prompting to accelerate early competency drafting, supported by clear human review and validation practices. Participants learn how to generate performance-aligned competency drafts efficiently, then how to plan and conduct employee interviews to validate and refine those drafts after the course.

The focus is on building a strong starting point, clear, usable competency drafts, while equipping participants with a practical approach for field validation, without turning competency design into a long or overly complex process.

Common Competency Use Cases

  • Drafting competencies for a new role, team, or job family
  • Defining core business competencies across roles and levels
  • Building occupational competency drafts for hiring and development
  • Standardizing expectations across teams, sites, or leaders
  • Translating competencies into interview criteria, training objectives, and evaluation indicators
  • Updating competencies as roles and business needs evolve

Business Benefits

  • Standardize expectations across leaders, roles, and locations
  • Improve hiring and development decisions with clearer criteria
  • Strengthen career pathways and performance alignment
  • Reduce rework caused by vague or unusable competencies
  • Accelerate competency design without sacrificing quality

Objectives

  • Generate first-pass core and occupational competency drafts using structured AI prompting aligned to real job performance.
  • Validate and refine competency language through focused employee interviews that surface observable behaviors and expectations.
  • Draft clear, measurable competency statements that are ready to support early hiring, development, and evaluation use.
  • Apply human review and validation practices to ensure AI-assisted competency drafts are accurate, fair, and appropriate for workplace decisions.

Audience

  • HR and Talent Management professionals
  • Learning and Organizational Development leaders
  • Workforce Planning and People Strategy teams
  • Hiring managers involved in role design or evaluation
  • HR Business Partners supporting multiple roles or functions

Delivery Options

  • Join the Waiting List
    Receive early access to course dates and priority registration.
  • Attend a 4-Hour Live Virtual Certification
    Learn how to use the PRISM™ framework and AI prompts to draft clear, role-based occupational competencies aligned to real performance.
  • Get Certified & Tools
    Earn the PRISM™ Occupational Competency certification and receive AI prompt templates and validation tools to support efficient, defensible competency design.