Core Competencies
Having a broad product, service, market and geographic scope is only an advantage if your organization also boasts the Core Competencies necessary to deliver the offering successfully.
Core competencies are those skills and capabilities that an organization must have to operate effectively and efficiently. They include the technical strengths and the management and leadership practices that set your organization apart and give it an advantage over its competitors.
Core Competencies Worksheet
Instructions: Provide answers to questions 1-4. When creating the list of Core Competencies in your organization, be sure to specify those that are unique to your organization, why they are unique and how they will be critical to the future success of the organization.
- What are the technical competencies that are central to the work that is carried out by your organization? Examples may include:
Social and behavior change communication strategies
Ability to design and implement SBCC campaigns
Specialization in the development of SBCC interventions
Skills in the design of SBCC monitoring systems
- Does your organization have any exemplary practices for:
Planning your staff workload
Organizing your staff workload
Implementing your staff workload
Monitoring and evaluating staff work?
- Do the leaders in your organization have any exemplary practices for:
Scanning the internal and external environment for opportunities, threats and trends
Focusing the work of the organization so that the products and services offered by the organization meet the needs of your clients and consumers
Aligning and mobilizing staff, systems and resources to get the work done
Inspiring innovation and commitment, and distributing leadership among staff at all levels?