When companies select CEOs in their 40s.
Generational changes are occurring in the executive suite as more companies hire chiefs in their late 40s. Generation X is moving into the corner office, bringing a different style [...]
What is a Competency?
A competency is an underlying characteristic of an individual, which can be shown to predict Superior or Effective performance in a job; and Indicates a way of behaving or thinking, [...]
The Multiple Jobs Approach to Building Competency Models
In the Multiple Jobs Approach, competency models are developed simultaneously for a set of jobs (e.g., all professional jobs in marketing; all R&D jobs, or all the job in a [...]
Develop Results-Driven Leaders
Results Orientation Results Orientation is a competency that is defined as focusing on the desired end result of one’s own or one’s unit’s work; setting challenging goals, focusing effort on [...]
The Benefits of Competency Based HR Applications
What value is added when human resource applications are built on a foundation of job competency models? Career Pathing and Retention Job Competency Models provide detailed maps for existing employees [...]
Developing the Persuasive Communications Competency
From Workitect's Competency Development Guide, a 280-page resource guide for developing thirty-five competencies. Definition: The ability to plan and deliver oral and written communications that are impactful and persuasive with [...]
“How to Do HR Right” – FastCompany
Five recommendations from FastCompany article "Why We Hate HR" for improving the effectiveness of HR: Say the right thing, Measure the right thing, Get rid of the 'social workers', Serve the business, Make value, not activity.
Why Do Some Executives Hate HR?
IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, COMPANIES WITH THE BEST TALENT WIN. AND FINDING, NURTURING, AND DEVELOPING THAT TALENT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TASKS IN A CORPORATION. SO WHY DOES HUMAN RESOURCES DO SUCH A BAD JOB — AND HOW CAN WE FIX IT?