Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Argosy University System is among the first institutions in a movement toward competency-based education, creating new models of direct assessment that promise to reduce time-to-degree and offer ...

Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian from the 17th century once said, “All things are difficult before they are easy.” In fact, we know thanks to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers that the ...

Every engineer deserves a clear growth path so they can understand, plan, and execute on meaningful career growth. Providing a framework for this growth (we call ours a competency matrix; it’s also ...

The development of competence is an ongoing journey, and one that is particularly punctuated in the early part of a health professional’s career. These novice practitioners need to recognize that the ...

The idea of integrating technologies such as social media, mobile, analytics, and cloud—which transform how you work, serve customers, and create competitive differentiation—sounds appealing! At the ...

The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) announced today the debut of the Food and Beverage Service Competency Model – the first-ever competency model designed expressly for ...

James Stiles, CSP, explained that the development of Johnson & Johnson's "global health and safety competency model" has been driven by a longstanding upper-management mandate that the company's most ...

The competency marketplace is poised to change the narrative around human capital development. Today, job seekers and job holders alike are all driving around without a map. Tomorrow, the competency ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds a ...

As a manager, I view it as my responsibility to provide every engineer with a realistic and achievable growth plan they can execute against. In that responsibility, I try to be fair and objective, ...