Management Competency Development

Management Competencies

Management Competencies have been all the rage for the past few years, but it is open to question how much good has been done for the money spent. Many competency studies have failed to deliver, for any or all of the following reasons:

• they impose an external framework on the organisation, which may not fit the subtleties of the organisation’s own culture;
• they fail to involve managers in their development, thus ensuring lack of ownership;
• they replicate the past competencies, and fail to address the issues of the size of the gap between past and future and how it is to be bridged.

Using the Enquire Within process a set of competencies will be obtained which:

• is the organisation’s own, expressed in their language and reflecting their business priorities;
• involves managers in their development, thus ensuring their commitment to the competences and to the demands which might be made on them in order to bring the competences to life;
• ensures that the gap between past and future competences has been addressed, with action plans as appropriate.
• Enquire Within can be used on its own, or to help design an organisation-wide questionnaire for a more thorough coverage. The continuous theme running through this configuration of Enquire Within is ownership: that the best competency statement in the world is close to useless unless line managers buy into it.

This configuration of Enquire Within can be used by consultants to build a database of competency analyses in different organisations, thereby enabling a client to benchmark themselves against suitable comparators in their sector.

Video

Learning is transforming the way we work, the way we do business, and way individuals grow, and how organizations achieve success. This video from the American Society for Training And Development is an overview benefits of building professional competencies.

Presented by Tony Bingham, President and CEO of ASTD.

Related Resources

• Repertory Grid in Change Management
• Determining Organizational Culture
• An example of management competencies for School Principals
• The Competent Production Supervisor: A Model for Effective Performance - - Arnaldo Camuffo and Fabrizio Gerli MIT IPC Working Paper IPC-05-002 March 2005 - Industrial Performance Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Management Competencies Tutorial
• Core Competencies
• Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia - Competence
• Public Sector Managerial Effectiveness: Theory and Practice in the National Health Service
• Competence at Work: Models for Superior Performance

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