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The EEOC Task Force Splendid Approach for Businesses
The EEO task force after evaluating best practices from leading organizations established the acronym "SPLENDID" which stands for a series of actions that conscientious business owners both large and small can take to address EEO and diversity issues for best practices.

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Excellence in Managing, Leading and Coaching
Managing, leading and coaching; interesting trio, eh? Many people and organizations collapse these competencies and titles. It often seems that these competencies and titles are both synonymous and interchangeable in our quest for excellence. But they’re not.

BOOK REVIEW: Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (By Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, Harvard Business School Press, 2002, ISBN #1-57851-486-X)
While a leader's technical and cognitive skills can be developed in a fairly straight forward manner, the critical competencies based in emotional intelligence (EQ) take longer and require more persistence and, frequently, courage. This book offers steps to enhance your own EQ so that you create greater resonance—vs. dissonance—in your dealings with your staff and others in your organization.
Leadership - The Top 10 Competencies Spelled Out
Leadership skills and competencies are a requirement for most professionals in this competitive marketplace. The ability to bring out capabilities in others and realizing their utmost potential is one sure way of measuring your leadership capabilities. Every organization differs on the specific skill sets and competencies needed for success but there are many leadership competencies that are relevant in all cases.

Competencies to increase the Velocity of your Sales Cycle and to Up Your Bottom Line
Now with a fantastic attitude and appropriate goal driven sales behaviors, you also need the competencies of your profession just as a lawyer or doctor needs them for theirs. Do you have the appropriate sales competencies to increase the velocity of your sales cycle and Up your bottom line? Well, you can develop your competencies almost anywhere. As salespeople, you can develop your competencies from reading books, in class training, on the job, being coached or through trial and error. You could join Professional Sales Associations, and in some countries like Canada, you can even get certified as a sales professional.

Where the Jobs Are/Will Be
Not surprisingly, the job growth in technical fields will exceed the increases in the non-technical.
Align Your Strategy and Operational Plans to Core Competencies
Core competencies are the underpinnings of an organization’s skills and the cornerstone of successful strategic execution. Core competencies represent the fundamental knowledge, abilities, and expertise of an organization. They are what make individuals and organizations unique. Furthermore, your ability to understand and measure organizational core competencies is a critical factor in reaching your desired goals.

Are Your Competencies Defensible?
The use of competencies can sometimes be subject to judicial scrutiny when an employment decision is challenged. Organizations must ensure that their competency profiles and the methods of their development meet accepted standards. Key concerns include: the link between competencies and the skills, knowledge and abilities required for job success; how reflective competencies are of required key attributes; the use of expert knowledge in developing competencies; accounting for possible disadvantages to a particular group; and, the actual level of competence required.
Selecting for Soft Skills: A Case Example Using Role Play with Live Actors
Interpersonal and communication styles often play as important a role as technical and professional skills and qualifications; selecting for this softer skill set can make or break the organization. A role-play exercise in the selection process provides a more realistic assessment of the behaviors and competencies such as interpersonal, judgment, verbal fluency and dependability requirements, than is possible through more traditional selection tools.
Hiring and Promoting Emotional Intelligence
Especially noticeable at senior executive levels, emotional intelligence competencies have been shown to increase results by 85% more than IQ or technical expertise.

Simplicity and Elegance: Expressing Your Core Competencies
Core competencies are one or a combination of a few unique or rare abilities; however, a description of core competencies is not simply a laundry list of various organizational attributes. Naming your core competencies can be very difficult because we, as business leaders or managers, often mistake our daily tasks as our organizational imperative.
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