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

Also see

• Knowledge
• Training
• List of management topics