Core Competencies - Organizational

Continuous Development

Definition:

Builds professional skills and competencies and improves work processes.

Key Behaviors

  • Consistently seeks out business opportunities that will create growth and development
  • Identifies personal skill areas to be developed
  • Invests time and resources to learn, grow, and develop
  • Looks for opportunities to learn from mistakes
  • Looks for ways to improve performance and efficiency on the job
  • Provides other with tools and approaches to solve problems and improve processes
  • Regularly analyzes systems, processes, and performance trends to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Uses a variety of resources to generate potential ideas for improvement

Proficiency Levels

  • Expert: Models, leads, trains, and motivates multiple levels of personnel to be excellent in continuous development.
  • Advanced: Habitually analyzes systems, processes and performance trends to identify opportunities for improvement, seeks out business opportunities that will create growth, provides others with tools to solve problems, and invests time and resources to learn and develop.
  • Intermediate: Usually analyzes systems, processes and performance trends to identify opportunities for improvement, seeks out business opportunities that will create growth.
  • Basic: Sometimes identifies personal skill areas to be developed, looks for opportunities to learn from mistakes, looks for ways to improve performance, and uses a variety of resources to do so.
  • Awareness: Demonstrates common knowledge or understanding of continuous development, but may avoid or miss opportunities to build professional skills and competencies and improve work processes.