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Bench turns competency frameworks into structured staff evaluations: define what each role needs, assess your people against it, see each person's gaps skill by skill, and turn them into a development plan.
Bench is running. Tell us about your team and we will set it up with you.
Talk to us about BenchFrom the team behind Drills and Desk.
The problem
Appraisals are ad-hoc and inconsistent. There is no agreed definition of what good looks like for each role.
Development spend is disconnected from the capability gaps that actually hold the team back.
Who can do what, and to what level, lives in scattered spreadsheets, and walks out the door when people leave.
The evidence
Treasury Accountant, Budget Execution Directorate
IPSAS reporting is two levels short and comes first: I recommend the accrual-accounting module and a re-assessment next cycle. Commitment control after that, once reporting holds.
This is the record a review cycle leaves behind: who holds which competency at which level, where the gaps are, and the development plan that follows from them. Rating history accumulates across cycles, so the picture stays current as people grow.
What Bench does
Build skills with levelled descriptors, group them into reusable blocks, and compose them into roles, so similar positions share the same definitions.
Rate people against each role's required level, with a full rating history across review cycles.
See the gap between each person's current and required level for every skill in the role, then draft a development plan from the biggest gaps for the supervisor and employee to agree.
Start from a ready-made treasury-management set, draw from large standardised banks (a PFM-oriented model and an extensive public-service framework), or build your own.
How it works
Set the competencies each role needs, from a ready-made bank or your own.
Run structured reviews and rate staff against their role's requirements.
Set each person against their role, skill by skill, agree a development plan from the gaps, and see its open actions at the next evaluation.
Who it's for
Bench fits any team that runs structured staff evaluations, and it speaks the language of public finance first.
Finance ministries, treasuries, audit offices, and PFM units.
HR units, line agencies, and donor-funded programmes running competency-based evaluation.
Tell us about your team and what you need to evaluate. We will come back with how Bench fits, and set up your accounts.
Questions? bench@pfmexpert.net
Bench has its own sign-in, separate from the one for Desk and Drills. Accounts are created by your organisation's Bench administrator, so there is nothing to sign up for here. Evaluations are personnel records, which is why Bench is kept apart.
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