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 ...

Monday’s post examined the latest research in Asia which shows a move away from rote learning and an increased emphasis on twenty-first century skills. Meanwhile, here in North America, the Toronto ...

Darla K. Deardorff, Ed.D. Editor’s Note: Many educators struggle with how to assess global competence. Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Affiliated Faculty at Duke University, shares four ways to get started, ...

How do you become more emotionally competent – more aware of your own and others’ feelings? It can be learned: here’s a primer. I get a lot of complaints from staff about their bosses being ...

Develop new competencies and skills through on-campus employment. Working on-campus is great opportunity to develop and practice the new competencies and skills you are acquiring on the job. Whether ...

A workplace competency is a description of a required skill, attribute or behavior for a specific job used to define and measure an individual's effectiveness. Competencies are arranged into a ...

Competence can be described as the skills, knowledge and experience that a person has and how they use these to perform the tasks / activities required of them to an appropriate standard, and thereby ...

Competence, termed as “the ability to do a particular activity to a prescribed standard”, is central to improving any industry and it is instrumental in enabling improvements within the construction ...