How to Successfully Implement a Competency Model
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Selecting a HR Application for a Model-Building Project
Competency models have many potential uses – for diverse areas including selection, assessment, development, performance management, training, and planning career paths. Some organizations do not always feel a need to [...]
How to break the Competency Curse
How One Manager Found New Opportunities at Work When good workers suffer from "the competency curse," they can end up being pigeonholed into tasks they do well, instead of a [...]
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 [...]