Core Competencies and Behaviours at Work

Core competencies describe behaviours, knowledge, skills and personal attributes which an organisation wants individuals to possess in order to assess them in a role. Such characteristics define what makes individuals and teams of individuals successful within a role, team and the organisation.

Core competency based appraisals are often seen as an ideal way to identify and utilise appraisee strengths, focus on development needs and drive superior performance across a business. Its for these reasons they are becoming a popular way of appraising behaviour and assessing role output.

Typical core competencies and behaviours include:

• Change Management.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Strategic Thinking.

We recognise that you may want to include competency based questions as part of your performance appraisal reviews, but might not know where to start, or have the resources or time to research and develop your own set of core competencies.

To save you time, money and effort our online performance appraisal system includes 17 pre-populated core competency questions to help you get started. And using them could not be easier. Simply use our questions as they are, change them to suit your organisation or create your own core competencies, the choice is yours.

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