Perfection may be your goal when developing a competency model for your supply management team. While that’s admirable, keep in mind the most important characteristics of the plan are consistency and ...

The Department of Labor has released a competency model for the long-term care industry that officials hope will solve long-standing issues of low wages and a high staff turnover rate. The Long-term ...

Leading correctional healthcare company, NaphCare , announced it will present a symposium-style seminar at the upcoming Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) , held March 12 ...

Michelle Farber, RN, CIC, 2012 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, recently discussed the changing role of infection preventionists and APIC’s ...

The Association of Rehabilitation Nursing (ARN) has created a toolkit of resources to help schools of nursing and facility-based nurse educators apply the ARN Competency Model for Professional ...

There are a number of competency models that are used to guide leadership development efforts in businesses, in nonprofit organizations, and in colleges and universities. Most of these models focus on ...

James Stiles, CSP, explained that the development of Johnson & Johnson's "global health and safety competency model" has been driven by a longstanding upper-management mandate that the company's most ...

NASHVILLE -- Mart Sessler has gone far with his associate degree. He worked his way up to vice president of information systems at a large insurance provider. But after 25 years in his field, Sessler ...

The Financial Planning Association has introduced a new framework that aims to define and support the behavioral skills financial planners need to build relationships, lead teams, and grow their ...

A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document ...

Consistently demonstrates the ethical principles and values of the institution and the profession, and models professional conduct with unimpeachable integrity.

These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach ...