Competence

Competencies represent clusters of skills, abilities and knowledges needed to perform jobs.

For instance, management competencies include:

• Systems thinking
• Emotional intelligence
• Influencing
• Negotiation

Characteristics

• Specific
• Assignable to one or more roles

• Can group and combine to form higher competencies

Possession of a competence

A person possesses a competence, as long as the skills abilities and knowledge that define that competence are a part of the person. Therefore one might not lose a skill, knowledge or ability, but could lose a competence if the defining factors of the competence change.

See also

• Knowledge
• Training
• List of management topics

See also: Competence, Emotional intelligence, Influencing, Knowledge, List of management topics, Management, Negotiation, Roles, Systems thinking, Training