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 ...

Performance management programs are useful in determining the overall quality of an employee's job performance. However, competency-based performance reviews evaluate an employee's core competencies ...

Many of us have heard from colleagues that our country’s postsecondary institutions cannot keep up with projected growth in the middle-skill occupations. In fact, according to some projections, the ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is promoting a comprehensive reform of the civil servant education system, including the development and utilization of learning models that ...

The Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a tool to organize and target your professional and personal development. Its primary purpose is to help you reach short- and long-term career goals, as well ...

Competencies are the skills, behaviors and performance standards that turn the "what" of an expectation into the "how." Business owners can use core organizational competencies to define the business ...