SFIA Week 2025 - webinar recordings and resources
Acknowledgement
We are grateful to everyone who contributed their time, insight, and materials to 2025 SFIA week.
Their willingness to share experience and learning helps strengthen the wider SFIA community.
Disclaimer
The resources and recordings on this page are provided for general information. They reflect the views, opinions, and experiences of the individual presenters. They do not represent the views of the SFIA Foundation. The SFIA Foundation does not endorse any specific statements, products, services, or organisations mentioned in the SFIA week materials. Users should evaluate the content in the context of their own needs and circumstances.
Implementing SFIA for work-integrated learning: what we've learned
Implementing SFIA for work-integrated learning: what we've learned
Work-integrated learning creates distinctive assessment challenges. This webinar brings together practitioners from two universities to share their approaches to key decisions around learning outcomes, assessment, supervision, and logistics. Whether you're designing a new work-placement programme or refining an existing one, you'll gain practical insights and guiding questions for your own teams.
We will also introduce a set of 21 guiding questions — developed from their experience of applying SFIA in higher education. These questions provide a structured way for academic teams to explore the key design choices involved in using SFIA to assess and support workplace learning. We are also keen to hear from others and to build a community resource for sharing good practice in this area.
Fraser Macdonald, University of Strathclyde and Martin Caminada, Cardiff University
Integrating frameworks and taxonomies for success: From the myth of one framework to total capability
Integrating frameworks and taxonomies for success: From the myth of one framework to total capability
Many organisations juggle multiple frameworks—leadership, behavioural, compliance, and technical—hoping "one framework" will solve everything. This session reframes success as integration, not consolidation. Ben will show how SFIA9 can act as an enabler for coherence across frameworks, demonstrating practical models (overlay, translation, hybrid, and ecosystem) that align SFIA with existing structures. You'll leave with actionable insights on using SFIA to enhance rather than replace other frameworks, and how to build an integrated capability story that supports transformation and workforce agility.
Ben Satchwell, Head of Capabilities, Acorn (AU)
Using SFIA and DigComp together to support pathways to in-demand jobs.
Using SFIA and DigComp together to support pathways to in-demand jobs.
- Brief overview of DigComp and SFIA frameworks.
- Discussion on how the 2 frameworks complement each other and can be used together to support pathways into in-demand jobs and professional development in general
Lisa Howdin, Capability Architect, Australia Public Service Commission
Jude Cosgrove, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Ian Seward, The SFIA Foundation
From skills to cyber shields: Fortifying the human firewall across the lifecycle with SFIA
This session will guide you through the practical application of SFIA, from initial familiarisation for the whole workforce, right through to the granular tailoring for the specialist cyber workforce, taking into consideration the organisational context.
It will demonstrate how SFIA can be embedded into key workforce management activities such as attraction, recruitment, onboarding, performance management, career development, and succession planning. You will learn how to activate SFIA progressively, avoiding the pitfalls of a “big bang” approach, and instead focusing on high-impact areas like skills gap analysis and targeted learning to address the journey of transformation driven by AI
Jakub Zverina, Cyber XC
Leveraging skills to review performance and plan growth
Leveraging skills to review performance and plan growth
Traditional growth and performance management is prone to being reactive and exhibiting deficit thinking. In contrast, basing your performance review process on explicit skills reduces bias and helps makes feedback feel less personal. This feedback, coupled to the team member’s stated career goals, can then be used to help guide the growth and development pathway conversation.
Elias, TalentJam
The Skills Ecosystem Webinar slides
The Skills Ecosystem
SFIA 9 is near complete for skills assessment of technology and technology adjacent roles. For other domains, professions and jurisdictions, there may be other frameworks. Assessment is only part of the value chain though; we assess skills to standardise, track, develop and plan at multiple scales. This presentation and discussion will explore the wider skills ecosystem and how SFIA 9 can contribute to that value chain
Elias, TalentJam
Digital leadership skills
Digital leadership skills
A practical approach to using the 16 generic attributes from SFIA 9 to define, describe, and develop digital leadership capability, and enable early identification and development of leadership talent.
Catherine, TalentJam
Self-assessment using SFIA
· self-assessment resources including the Visual Self-Assessment guide,· leveraging your self-assessment and· new website resources introduced since Version 9 LaunchThe presentation is more focused on the process of self-assessment than a deep dive into SFIA.Phil Lovell, Accredited SFIA Consultant
Other SFIA Foundation Videos
These video and others are available on the SFIA Foundation YouTube channel
Video - SFIA and skills management
- This short video, produced by the SFIA Foundation, is designed mainly for new SFIA users.
SFIA 9 Levels of Responsibility and Behavioural factors
- This short video introduces the improvements to the appearance and content of SFIA Levels of Responsibility and Behavioural factors.