Analyzing Digital Competencies - With the Digital Literacy Module of the Mindset Navigator Platform
Analyze your digital competencies in 6 success-critical areas.
What are digital competencies?
Digital competencies are an important skill for all employees in today's digital age. This includes learning how to use technology safely and effectively, thereby developing a range of digital skills. It also involves knowing how to safely handle personal data, understanding the basics of common software, and being able to interact with artificial intelligence (AI).
What does the digital literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform measure?
The digital literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform analyses and measures the digital competencies that are critical to success in dealing with digital transformation.
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Data competence
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IT security
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Digital Tools
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Digital Health
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Digital Communication and Collaboration
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Digital Content Creation
With the Digital Literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform, you can identify your strengths and potentials in a scientifically valid way in all six areas of Digital Literacy and derive an action plan to develop yourself.
In just 10 minutes, you can gain an insight into your digital competencies.
In addition, your organization gets an overall picture of the existing digital competencies and can therefore start a targeted development.
6 areas that describe digital competencies
Data competence
Data from digital technologies is ubiquitous and indispensable in today's society. In order to be successful in professional life or in everyday life, it is important to have the appropriate data competence.
After all, data must not only be collected, but also analyzed and interpreted. The correct handling of technologies and media and their data is a major challenge here, as data protection and data security must be maintained.
So it's not just a matter of collecting and processing data, but also of handling it responsibly. Only in this way can data be used sensibly, for example to make decisions or identify trends. In other words, anyone with strong data skills has a decisive advantage over others in many areas of professional life.
IT security
IT security is a key issue in the corporate world today. All employees have a great responsibility to ensure that IT systems are secure and not compromised by unauthorized access.
This includes, for example, using strong passwords, updating security software and avoiding phishing attacks. It is important that every employee is aware of the importance of IT security and takes appropriate measures.
Only when everyone pulls together can a company successfully combat cybercrime and other threats. As an employee, you should always remember that IT security is not just a question of technology, but above all of behavior.
Digital Tools
In today's digital world, it is essential for companies to constantly adapt to new technologies and tools.
Employees must be able to master these new digital tools in order to work more efficiently and optimize the work process. In addition, these tools enable employees to work more productively and creatively.
Whether it's using online collaboration platforms or managing projects through cloud computing, digital tools help employees* do their jobs better and faster.
By becoming familiar with these tools, employees can optimize their work and enhance their skills. Accordingly, employees can become valuable members of the team by staying up-to-date and integrating what they learn into their daily work.
Digitale Health
In an increasingly digitalized workplace, it's important to master the responsible use of IT resources while taking care of our own health.
From workplace ergonomics to effective management of our digital communications, employees need to be aware of how they organize themselves and their work to achieve the best possible results.
But work-life balance also plays an important role. A constant stream of emails and messages can disrupt the rhythm of work and lead to stress. By optimizing their work processes, employees can be productive without endangering their health.
Digital Communication and Collaboration
Digital communication and collaboration have become an indispensable part of our everyday working lives. This dynamic duo enables us to communicate and collaborate with colleagues and customers around the world in real time.
Whether through video conferencing, instant messaging, or online collaboration tools, digital communication and collaboration enable employees to work more efficiently than ever before.
Through these digital mediums, we can share ideas, collaborate on projects, and network virtually to streamline our workflows. But it's not just a marvel of technology; it's also an important factor in business success. So it's no wonder that digital communication and collaboration are among the indispensable pillars of digital transformation in modern companies.
Digital Content Creation
In the era of digital transformation, the ability to create content for various digital platforms (e.g. social networks) has become an indispensable skill for employees in companies.
Digital content creation requires not only creative skills, but also technical skills to create engaging visual and written content.
It is critical for companies to ensure that their employees have this competency in order to increase their brand's presence and their customers' online engagement. Employees who possess this competency are invaluable to the company, as they can ensure that the company's digital presence meets expectations and keeps up with the latest trends and technologies.
How can the Digital Literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform help you?
The Digital Literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform helps you to analyse and understand the digital competencies of employees and candidates. Based on this analysis, development plans can be built and an individualized development of digital literacy becomes possible.
The analysis of digital competencies has 3 areas of application:
Diagnostics in recruiting
The digital literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform enables matching for digital competencies in recruiting. This enables recruiters to increase the fit of candidates and avoid hiring mistakes. This reduces recruiting and onboarding costs enormously.
Diagnostics for personnel developmen
The digital literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform is the perfect start for individualized personnel development of digital competencies. Based on the analysis, learning content and development opportunities can be individualized for each employee. This leads to greater learning success and thus to an increase in digital competencies within the company. With the integrated learning platform MIA, the Mindset Navigator platform offers the possibility for each user to start directly on an individualized modern learning path for digital competencies.
Read more: Learning with MIA
Diagnostics for organizational development in digital transofmration
The digital literacy module of the Mindset Navigator platform offers the ideal starting point for targeted organizational development in the digital transformation. The individual analyses of the digital competencies of employees can be aggregated anonymously and evaluated using the management dashboard according to different company divisions, departments, countries or even time periods. This enables the right decisions to be made in organizational development on the basis of data.
For who is the Digital Competencies Analysis suitable?
Industry-independent
The Digital Competencies Analysis is industry-independent and can be used and tested in practice for various company sizes - from SMEs to large corporations.
Role-independent
The analysis of digital competencies can be used independently of roles, i.e. there are no restrictions in the area of application and digital competencies of employees and managers can be analyzed.
Customization
The Digital Competencies Analysis can be customized to meet your exact needs. This customization can range from content changes to look and feel.
Scientific validity
Ensured validity according to scientific criteria and development according to quality standards of DIN 33430.
The digital literacy diagnostics has been scientifically validated and exhibits the necessary quantitative quality criteria of the current scientific standard for all dimensions (objectivity, reliability, validity, normal distribution properties, etc.).
In addition, a study has been written on this subject.
If you want to learn more about the scientific validity, you can download our validation study via the following link.
