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 ...

CLEVELAND – Two colleges recently visited Lakeshore Technical College to gain insight into its competency-based learning model. Instructors, deans and guidance coaches from Oregon-based Umpqua ...

Have you ever wished you could clone your most effective leaders? There’s a better way: Using competency models. Competency modeling is a way to clarify the skills and behaviors that are common ...

New Hampshire schools have retired a century old education standard, replacing it with a new performance-based learning model. The report details the case studies of two New Hampshire high schools ...

Competencies denote the skills and behaviors needed to demonstrate mastery of a skill at a particular level. In order to provide quality organizational training and education programs, personnel ...

(TNS) — Jaqueline Yalda, who has been a campus police officer at El Paso Community College in Texas for a decade, sought a promotion earlier this year. But first, the department required her to ...

In a recent blog post, Bryan Warren, Manger of Healthcare Solutions at Select International, notes that when creating a competency model, it can be easy to get wrapped up in over-sized web of ...

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 ...

Competency management systems allow employers to evaluate employees' performance. Use of these systems allows managers and supervisors to identify gaps, deploy remedial training, recruit staff and ...

As part of an effort to ensure that security practitioners have the skills necessary to meet the demands of an ever-evolving threat landscape, the ASIS Foundation teamed up with the University of ...