One of my favorite business quotes of all time is attributed to Jack Welch, General Electric’s CEO from 1981 to 2001. During his time at GE, the company’s market value grew from $12 billion to more ...

The education field is regularly plagued by the need for common definitions as new practices emerge. As we’ve seen with personalized learning, ambiguous terms for ambitious ideas can create widespread ...

In my time at McKinsey, one of the associate partners once said, “Our client may have the knowledge, but we have the skill — specifically, the problem-solving skill — to overcome the knowledge barrier ...

A workplace competency is a description of a required skill, attribute or behavior for a specific job used to define and measure an individual's effectiveness. Competencies are arranged into a ...

The job analysis process allows employers to better determine which positions within their company are effective in their current state and which are in need of overhauling. When a company performs a ...

Educators are increasingly getting behind a big idea: organize learning and recognize achievement based on students’ mastery of a defined set of competencies. Competency-based education, also known as ...