Tippie Competency Model

• Career professionalism
• Strong written/oral communication
• Effective time/project management

• Networking
• Effectively uses interviewing skills
• Creates/uses personal vision
• Shows personal ethics/integrity
• Prepares persuasive materials
• Actively solicits and listens to ideas from others
• Manages resources, time, money, and scope simultaneously
• Organizes daily actions to align with goals

Demonstrates characteristics of a:

• Strong team player
• Effective team leader

• Works with others to establish team roles and norms
• Encourages input from others
• Addresses problems by providing candid, timely feedback
• Establishes credibility as leader
• Motivates toward common goal
• Models strong commitment to moral code

Shows ability to:

• Serve as a role model
• Motivate others
• Empower followers to act
• Make sound decisions in line with goals

• Demonstrates ethics with a positive say/do ratio
• Appeals to shared values to generate enthusiasm
• Seeks challenging opportunities
• Shares power to encourage others to take action
• Communicates empathy and support of others
• Distinguishes facts from inferences and hunches
• Encourages task-oriented conflict

Demonstrates:

• Global perspective
• Ability to think and act strategically

• Can discuss and contribute beyond functional expertise
• Understands how cultural, economic, legal, and political influences and differences impact decisions
• Considers moral impact of his or her decisions on global society and environment
• Communicates big picture
• Balances big picture with day-to-day concerns
• Prioritizes opportunities for advancing goals
• Turns opportunity into action