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Module 1 · ValCom Diagnosticsavailable

What someone can do, and what the role requires

The required values, competencies and hard skills become target profiles, assessments and skills gap evaluations – for employees, teams and the organization.

The only module already running in day-to-day operation today.

Illustration of competency diagnostics: people reviewing a role profile, target picture and skills gaps
How a competency model comes to life

In hours, not months. Building on your proven, existing model

First, we get to know your organization

Industry, culture, roles, requirements. Only this understanding makes the models a precise fit.

The AI builds on your job profiles

You provide your job profiles, and matching values and competency models emerge from them.

Existing models are carried over

Many companies already have their own competency model, often developed with considerable effort. We build on it instead of replacing it.

Diagnosis and skills gaps

Self-assessment, optionally 360° feedback from managers, peers and employees. The result: visible strengths, prioritized development fields.

Scope of functions

From target profile to personalized learning path

Target profiles

  • From role and job profiles
  • Competencies, values and hard skills kept separate

Assessment

  • Self- and external assessments
  • 360° feedback for tasks, functions and teams
  • Behavioral anchors instead of gut feeling

Evaluation

  • Target-actual comparison and skills gaps
  • AI reports with recommendations
  • Individual learning goals and personalized learning paths

Perspectives

  • Employees, teams and organization
  • Comparable across role clusters
  • Development over time
The basis

Scientifically grounded models

The basis is the values and competency model by Prof. Dr. John Erpenbeck and Prof. Dr. Werner Sauter, drawn from three decades of joint research and practice. Every competency and every value contains a definition, concrete behavioral anchors or value examples, a description of the exaggerated form, and stored development recommendations.

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competencies and values, scientifically grounded and fully worked out

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values as an anchor of self-organized action

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areas and fields, comparable across tasks and functions

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hard skills: knowledge, skill, methods, tools, qualifications

Personality tests measure: "This is how I am"

Traits that are barely changeable. A label whose elements can hardly be developed.

We measure: "This is how I act"

A developable capacity to act. That is the difference between a label and a development path.

Why the suggestions are explainable

A taxonomy that keeps terms apart

Competencies, values and hard skills are handled separately, not thrown into one pot. This makes the suggestions explainable, consistent and multi-tenant-capable – and every assignment can be traced back to a concept in the model instead of a freely invented label.

Many systems let a language model freely interpret what competency means. With us, a researched, published model lies underneath.

Illustration: values (What matters to me) and competencies (How I act) shown as separate concepts
Where Diagnostics stands

The data-based foundation of the suite

Diagnostics can also be used on its own. But the benefit grows significantly once an identified gap turns directly into a learning path, without a detour.

What diagnostics is not for

No automated personnel selection

The diagnostics serves development and dialogue, not selection. The decision stays with the human being. Transparent criteria, role-based access, agreed data use.

AI in HR management falls under Annex III of the EU AI Act; the obligations for stand-alone high-risk systems take effect under the Digital Omnibus from 2 December 2027. ValCom is deliberately built so that the decision stays with the human being – not because a regulation demands it, but because a diagnostic that decides about people makes honest self-assessment impossible.

The next step

Choose a target role, build a target profile, capture the current state and diagnose

In about 30 minutes, we show you on a real role how a target profile emerges, how the assessment works and which learning paths follow from it.