Proactively develop yourself and your career through ongoing learning, understanding your strengths and weaknesses, exploring career opportunities, and networking to build relationships both inside and outside your organization.

Sample Behaviors 

•   Show an awareness of your own strengths and areas for development.

•   Identify areas for continual growth while pursuing and applying feedback. 

•   Develop plans and goals for one’s future career. 

•   Professionally advocate for oneself and others. 

•   Display curiosity; seek out opportunities to learn. 

•   Assume duties or positions that will help one progress professionally. 

•   Establish, maintain, and/or leverage relationships with people who can help one professionally. 

•   Seek and embrace development opportunities. 

•   Voluntarily participate in further education, training, or other events to support one’s career.

Clearly and effectively share information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with individuals. 

Sample Behaviors 

•   Understand the importance of and demonstrate verbal, written, and non-verbal/body language, abilities. 

•   Employ active listening, persuasion,  and influencing skills. 

•   Communicate in a clear and organized manner so that others can effectively understand. 

•   Frame communication with respect  to the diversity of learning styles, varied individual communication abilities, and cultural differences. 

•   Ask appropriate questions for specific information from supervisors, specialists,  and others. 

•   Promptly inform relevant others when needing guidance with assigned tasks.

Identify and respond to needs by understanding the context and logically analyzing relevant information.

Sample Behaviors 

•   Make decisions and solve problems using sound, inclusive reasoning and judgment. 

•   Gather and analyze information from a diverse set of sources and individuals to fully understand a problem. 

•  Proactively anticipate needs and prioritize action steps. 

•   Accurately summarize and interpret data with an awareness of personal biases that may impact outcomes. 

•   Effectively communicate actions and rationale, recognizing the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of stakeholders. 

•   Multi-task well in a fast-paced environment.

Equity and Inclusion Competency: Show the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills needed to fairly engage and include people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Participate in anti-oppressive practices that actively challenge systems, structures, and policies of racism and inequity. 

Sample Behaviors 

•   Solicit and use feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make inclusive and equity-minded decisions. 

•   Actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change. 

•   Advocate for inclusion, equitable practices, justice, and empowerment for historically marginalized communities. 

•   Seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different demographic groups and that lead to personal growth. 

•   Keep an open mind to diverse ideas and new ways of thinking. 

•   Identify resources and eliminate barriers resulting from individual and systemic racism, inequities, and biases. 

•   Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to diverse environments. 

•   Address systems of privilege that limit opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities.

Recognize and use personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.

Sample Behaviors 

•    Inspire, persuade, and motivate self and others under a shared vision. 

•   Seek out and leverage diverse resources and feedback from others to inform direction. 

•   Use innovative thinking to go beyond traditional methods. 

•   Serve as a role model to others by approaching tasks with confidence and a positive attitude. 

•   Motivate and inspire others by encouraging them and by building mutual trust. 

•   Plan, initiate, manage, complete, and evaluate projects.

Understand that work environments vary greatly, demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the best interests of the larger community and workplace.

Sample Behaviors 

•   Act equitably with integrity and accountability to self, others, and the organization. 

•   Maintain a positive personal brand in alignment with organization and personal career values. 

•   Be present and prepared. 

•   Demonstrate dependability  (e.g., report consistently for work or meetings). 

•   Prioritize and complete tasks to accomplish organizational goals. 

•   Consistently meet or exceed goals and expectations. 

•   Have an attention to detail, resulting in few if any errors in their work. 

•   Show a high level of dedication toward doing a good job.

Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while valuing diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.

Sample Behaviors 

•   Listen carefully to others, taking time to understand and ask appropriate questions without interrupting. 

•   Effectively manage conflict, interact with and respect diverse personalities,  and meet ambiguity with resilience. 

•   Be accountable for individual and team responsibilities and deliverables. 

•   Employ personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others. 

•   Exercise the ability to compromise and be agile. 

•   Collaborate with others to achieve common goals. 

•   Build strong, positive working relationships with supervisor and team members/coworkers.

Understand and use technologies ethically to improve efficiency, complete tasks, and achieve goals.

Sample Behaviors 

•   Navigate change and be open to learning new technologies. 

•   Use technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of their work. 

•   Identify appropriate technology for completing specific tasks. 

•   Manage technology to integrate information to support relevant,  effective, and timely decision-making. 

•   Quickly adapt to new or unfamiliar technologies. 

•   Manipulate information, construct ideas, and use technology to achieve strategic goals.