Avatar photoChristophe Vantighem

Christophe founded Teammeter in 2021, after more than twenty years as a manager and agile coach working with operational teams in large organizations across France, Germany, and beyond. Based in Frankfurt, he has helped over 100 teams develop their potential and collaborated with researchers at Stanford University on coaching strategies. He built Teammeter to close the gap between HR and operations, and what he writes here keeps circling back to the question those years were spent answering: what does an organization need to be successful?

What is a Competency Model ?

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Long before anyone used the word “competency,” European trade guilds had already built a competency model of one. A guild recognized three ranks: apprentice, journeyman, and master. An apprentice was bound to a master’s household for a fixed term, often seven years, receiving training and lodging instead of wages. A journeyman had finished that training … Read more

From Allocation to Orchestration: What Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends 2026 Reveals About the Future of Work

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Every year, Deloitte surveys the people who run organizations to find out what they believe matters most, and how well they’re actually doing about it. The 2026 Global Human Capital Trends report, built on responses from more than 3,000 business and HR leaders across 15 countries, supplemented by a further 6,000 workers and managers and … Read more

Upskilling vs Reskilling: Definition, Differences and Benefits

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Upskilling vs. Reskilling: What’s the Difference? Let’s take a look at the differences between the two terms: The distinction is more than semantics, because it triggers different investment logics: Upskilling Reskilling Goal Strengthen an existing role Enable a new role Time horizon Continuous, incremental Project-based, often with an end date Trigger New tools, rising requirements … Read more

Successfully Implementing Upskilling and Reskilling: A Practical Playbook

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Upskilling and reskilling have become the most common corporate response to AI-driven disruption: 77% of companies now want to upskill their workforce specifically because of artificial intelligence.[1] The problem: there’s a gap between announcement and execution. Studies from the German-speaking market show that even where half of companies see a high need for AI-related training, … Read more

Skill Intelligence in the practice

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Most companies can tell you how many people they have. Almost none can tell you, with any confidence, whether those people have the right skills to execute the strategy they just announced. Budgets are approved, transformations launched, and hiring plans signed off based on headcount and job titles, while the real question, “Do we have … Read more