WASHINGTON – The Department of Labor has released a competency model for the long-term care industry that officials hope will solve long-standing issues of low wages and a high staff turnover rate.

(Next page: 4 ways to become more competency-based) One place to start is with the document that most teachers use to make classroom decisions, the curriculum. A curriculum that allows teachers to ...

CURRICULUM development process usually begins with knowing the needs (through situation analysis) of the people for whom the curriculum would be developed. Then decision is made on the national/state ...

The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) announced today the debut of the Food and Beverage Service Competency Model – the first-ever competency model designed expressly for ...

Debates over the contributions of education to unemployment have raged for years without any signs of abating. The most cogent argument raised by many has been that the theoretical curriculum produces ...

Competency management systems allow employers to evaluate employees' performance. Use of these systems allows managers and supervisors to identify gaps, deploy remedial training, recruit staff and ...

We often hear from the Operations team saying, “we don’t get the right people for the job”, complaining about the HR team. The HR team in turn says, “the operations’ team did not know what skills were ...

James Stiles, CSP, explained that the development of Johnson & Johnson's "global health and safety competency model" has been driven by a longstanding upper-management mandate that the company's most ...

Have you ever wished you could clone your most effective leaders? There’s a better way: Using competency models. Competency modeling is a way to clarify the skills and behaviors that are common ...