The Use of Competencies
There are many consulting companies devoted to competency-based training and organizational development. They help their clients to improve the quality and capability of their managerial and leadership talent by defining a set of standard behaviors that constitute best practices for the organization. These benchmarks are then embedded in various human resource systems and applied in such things as the design of management development systems, succession planning, leadership training, and performance management systems.
In leadership development, for example, a typical situation is a company’s hiring of a management consulting firm to complete a multirater, leadership development assignment. ...
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