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IARSA

Consultancy

Professional Standards Services

Creating or modifying entry routes, competency frameworks and ethical codes, using sector knowledge and research-based benchmarking.

PSS

The association supports the work of your organisation by reflecting on your work and encouraging best practice.

Whether you are looking to create or modify your organisation's entry routes, competency frameworks or ethical code, it uses specialist knowledge of the sector and research-based benchmarking models to help you through the process.

Developing entry routes

  • Giving perspective on the issues to consider
  • Reviewing your development process
  • Carrying out consultations as an independent partner
  • Creating a bespoke framework for you based on stakeholder feedback

Competency frameworks

The association guides, supports and evaluates your efforts with a tailored service to ensure your framework is successful. Its advice is based on extensive research into the development processes, structure and content of over 30 frameworks used by institutions and corporate bodies.

How the association helps your professional body

  • Guiding all stages of developing a new competency framework
  • Ensuring your development process is robust
  • Benchmarking your development process against common approaches in the sector
  • Helping you clarify the purpose of your framework
  • Advising on the structure and content of your framework

Common problems the service looks at

  • When the design does not align with the purpose
  • Overly complex structures with inconsistent levels and overlaps
  • Overly long, complex and confusing statements

Critical review of an existing framework

  • Quality assure your competency framework
  • Benchmark your framework against a set of common dimensions
  • Rewrite your competency statements to ensure consistency throughout

Ethical code analysis and strategic planning

With the association's support, develop your strategic plan. It arms you with the tools and techniques you need, helps you generate strategic options, and brings knowledge and learning from other organisations and corporate bodies. It helps you work through your strategic options and plan your implementation, providing support along the way.

The association can help with three to five year plans and work on topics such as mergers, rebranding, management structures and balanced scorecards.