How to Develop the Competency of Decisiveness
Leaders, especially those in senior management, need Decisiveness. They must be able to make high stakes decisions, such as whether to accept [...]
Do your executives and managers need a Global Perspective?
To maintain global competitiveness, changing circumstances are demanding global strategic visions and new organizational structures that are conceptualized, articulated and implemented by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seven Steps to Developing a Competency
Acquiring competencies has seven steps: (1) identification of the required competencies, (2) self-assessment, (3) observation and study, (4) practice, (5) feedback, (6) goal-setting, and (7) on-the-job support.
A Competency Model for Career Mobility
Our intention is not to burst your bubble about your professional future, but let’s be honest: Your potential to be promoted to [...]
Looking ahead to a year of professional development
Most companies have begun assessing their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for growth and improvement. Most reports that have so far been [...]