The Office of Personnel Management last week announced that it would conduct a new survey of federal agencies to determine what skills are needed for jobs throughout the federal government, an effort ...

A knowledgeable, skilled and well-trained workforce is critical to a company's success. Improving competencies allows an organization to remain adaptable and competitive, ultimately contributing to ...

What makes an effective leader? Many people would likely agree there are essential skills and behaviors that contribute to the effectiveness of a leader. And to ensure emerging leaders are ...

A core competency is a skill at which an individual is especially proficient, or a set of activities that an organization performs better than other functions – whether more efficiently, at lower cost ...

I’m catching up with some email from my last column on the behavioral competency known as customer responsiveness. A recurring inquiry has to do with defining the subtle differences among similar ...

The medical education programs at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine are based on nine core competencies. The following competencies and Educational Program Objectives describe the ...

It’s important to know the specific competencies required, write Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan, Mark Kaloko, Connor Ferguson and Tithi Basu Mallik. Being in graduate school is sometimes referred to as ...

Brian Stecher and Laura Hamilton, measurement experts at RAND, share the results of their study on how schools and districts should consider assessments for measuring competencies like creativity and ...

A novel management theory looks past individual leaders to constraints that might limit their effectiveness. As a leader, you may sense the heavy mantle of work to be done, employees to motivate, ...

Psychosocial care is considered an important component of quality cancer care. Individuals treated for cancer can experience biologic or physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical consequences (eg, ...