The ExecOnline Competency Framework is built around four competency clusters.
Leading Self - Competencies related understanding, managing and motivating yourself
Leading Others - Competencies related to working with or formally leading others
Leading the Business - Competencies related to setting business strategy and executing effectively against it
Leading for the Future - Competencies related to thinking ahead and positioning the organization for long-term success
ExecOnline Competencies Defined
Leading Self
Competency | Definition |
Manages Self | Demonstrates self-awareness and works to manage own mindset, emotions, and behaviors. |
Takes Personal Accountability | Takes responsibility for one's actions and commitments, and the associated results, positive or negative. |
Manages Detail & Complexity | Shows attention to detail and interprets complex, potentially conflicting, information productively. |
Adapts Readily | Assesses changing or ambiguous situations and adjusts behavior to drive the best outcome. |
Demonstrates Resilience | Recovers from setbacks and learns from them in order to handle future challenges. |
Develops Self | Shows commitment to deliberate personal growth and learning by reflecting, challenging oneself, seeking feedback, and setting growth goals. |
Builds Personal Brand | Shows confidence in one's unique abilities and values, through humble and assertive expression, advocacy and personal brand building. |
Leading Others
Competency | Definition |
Demonstrates Empathy | Seeks to appreciate the perspectives, needs, concerns, and emotions of others by listening attentively and demonstrating understanding. |
Communicates Effectively | Conveys information clearly and concisely, listens actively, and adapts communication style to meet the needs of a given situation. |
Builds Trust | Develops mutual respect with others by behaving authentically and consistently. |
Builds Relationships | Maintains positive interactions with others in service of fostering productive and lasting partnerships. |
Collaborates Effectively | Partners with others by leveraging collective expertise to achieve shared goals. |
Manages Conflict | Seeks to surface, address, and resolve disagreements in a productive and effective manner. |
Influences Others | Gains others' alignment and support through direct and indirect persuasion. |
Sets Vision & Purpose | Sets a compelling vision that's energizes others and motivates action. |
Drives Results | Achieves results by pushing through challenging or ambiguous circumstances. |
Manages & Prioritizes Work | Organizes, delegates, and completes work effectively through smart prioritization and use of resources. |
Creates Accountability | Establishes clear responsibilities, expectations, and goals, and holds others responsible for meeting their commitments. |
Develops Effective Teams | Fosters high team performance by setting clear direction, building a strong team culture and encouraging collaboration to accomplish common goals. |
Leads Inclusively | Ensures others feel valued and respected by actively seeking diverse perspectives, providing equal opportunities and treatment, and fostering an inclusive environment. |
Fosters Engagement | Engages others by recognizing their work contributions, creating a supportive work environment, and addressing challenges that may diminish engagement. |
Leads Flexibly | Responds to unexpected circumstances or emerging challenges with open-mindedness, agility and a willingness to take risks by adjusting one's actions and approach. |
Develops Talent | Mentors or coaches others to reach their full potential by providing meaningful feedback and opportunities for growth. |
Leading the Business
Competency | Definition |
Thinks Strategically | Thinks holistically about the enterprise and acts tactically to achieve competitive advantage |
Demonstrates Business Acumen | Applies knowledge of the business, market trends, and industry dynamics to drive organizational goals forward. |
Demonstrates Financial Acumen | Applies sound financial principles and practices to make the case for organizational investments or to evaluate decisions. |
Focuses on Customers | Prioritizes customer needs, expectations, behaviors and preferences in developing organizational strategies, products and services. |
Manages Initiatives & Projects | Plans and executes projects and initiatives by managing resources, timelines, progress, mitigating risks, maintaining budgets, and managing stakeholder expectations. |
Drives Continuous Improvement | Seeks, identifies and executes upon opportunities to drive increased efficiency, effectiveness, and quality. |
Applies Sound Judgement | Evaluates a variety of information and perspectives, balancing risks and opportunities, to choose the best course of action. |
Drives Transformation | Evaluates, establishes and implements the best course of action to inspire others and gain buy-in for a new path forward. |
Manages Stakeholders | Identifies key stakeholders, assesses their needs and expectations, and proactively manages those relationships to keep them informed, engaged, and aligned. |
Leverages Data Purposefully | Uses data and analytics to generate and validate ideas, make informed choices, and communicate decisions. |
Leads with Technology | Identifies and integrates emergent technologies to address business needs and seize opportunities. |
Navigates the Organization | Effectively navigates the complexities of the organization, including policies, practices, and politics. |
Shapes Organizational Culture | Establishes and role models the shared values, beliefs, and practices that foster a strong organizational culture. |
Leading for the Future
Competency | Definition |
Stays Ahead of the Market | Anticipates future trends, market changes, emerging technologies and industry developments before they are mainstream and takes action to address them |
Fosters Innovation | Enables creativity, experimentation, and risk-taking by rewarding new ideas and by learning from both successes and failures. |
Drives Business Growth | Seeks to expand organizational reach, impact and capabilities in service of driving growth. |
Leads Sustainably | Prioritizes social and environmental sustainability when evaluating, debating and making decisions, conveying the centrality of sustainability to modern corporate strategy. |
Takes a Global Mindset | Recognizes the interconnectedness of the world, with an appreciation for the diversity of different cultures, economies, and political systems. |
Builds Enterprise Talent | Recognizes strategic talent needs and focuses efforts on cultivating the right talent to meet organizational short- and long-term goals. |
Looks to the Future | Resists short-term thinking and pushes the organization to consider and prioritize longer-term strategies that set the business up for the future. |
Operates with Courage | Addresses difficult issues and makes tough or unpopular decisions to drive the organization forward. |
Understanding Competencies in AdminStudio
The ExecOnline Competency Framework provides the ability to connect your
organization’s priorities & related leadership development needs to our products.
ExecOnline Competencies are displayed in various areas of AdminStudio to make solutioning alignment easier & more efficient for you.
Competencies are:
aligned at the course level & indicate specific areas of skill development associated with each course.
displayed for each Learning Collection based on the courses aligned to the Talent Objective.
Competencies can:
be used to narrow the focus to the right courses to support your leadership development needs.
support building a custom learning collection by providing a place to start when thinking about key skill priorities.
Where to Find Competencies
Competencies are displayed throughout the learning collection builder.
Additionally, there is a filter for Competency on the Select step. This filter will help to narrow the list of pre-curated collections to align with a specific competency or competencies.
The filter also displays the count of pre-curated collections that contain a program aligned to the selected competency. For example, in the screenshot below, there are 3 pre-curated collections that are aligned to the ‘Leads with Technology’ competency.