Spokane Colleges believes higher education institutions have an obligation to work toward ensuring equity among their students, faculty, and staff. For faculty and staff, this approach to equity starts with competency-based hiring.
Competencies are behaviors that show an ability to do something successfully or effectively. We identify competencies for each job using the Korn Ferry Leadership Architect framework. This globally recognized framework is the basis for our shared understanding.
How we perform is as important as credentials or experience. Our competency-based framework supports professional and personal growth. From the time they are hired, our employees know the strengths and abilities they need to succeed. Competencies help our team know how to excel in their current role and prepare for the future.
- Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Attracts top talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs.
- Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Being Resilient: Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
- Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
- Builds Networks: Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
- Business Insight: Applying Knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
- Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of unique needs of different audiences.
- Courage: Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
- Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
- Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Demonstrates Self-Awareness: Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
- Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
- Directs Work: Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.
- Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
- Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action.
- Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Financial Acumen: Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
- Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
- Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
- Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.
- Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Manages Conflict: Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
- Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling unfamiliar problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Optimizes Work Processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics.
- Persuades: Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
- Plans and Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
- Resourcefulness: Securing and deploying resources effectively and efficiently.
- Self-Development: Actively Seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal channels.
- Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
- Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
- Tech Savvy: Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
- Values Differences: Recognizing the values that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.