Law360 (May 25, 2010, 3:42 PM EDT) -- Major law firms are increasingly embracing competency models for their associates, both to speed their professional development and make them more marketable to ...

When organizations’ hire, develop, and promote leaders using a competency-based model, they’re unwittingly incubating failure. Nothing fractures corporate culture faster, and eviscerates talent ...

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 ...

Competency management systems allow employers to evaluate employees' performance. Use of these systems allows managers and supervisors to identify gaps, deploy remedial training, recruit staff and ...

We often hear from the Operations team saying, “we don’t get the right people for the job”, complaining about the HR team. The HR team in turn says, “the operations’ team did not know what skills were ...

Perfection may be your goal when developing a competency model for your supply management team. While that’s admirable, keep in mind the most important characteristics of the plan are consistency and ...

Lipscomb University shows what competency-based education can look like in its blended form, both in-person and at a liberal arts college. NASHVILLE -- Mart Sessler has gone far with his associate ...

A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...

As large enterprises search for solutions to get the most out of their outsourcing vendors, many are turning to operational frameworks like ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) to ...