A core competency is a skill at which an individual is especially proficient, or a set of activities that an organization performs better than other functions – whether more efficiently, at lower cost ...

Physicians command the attention of everyone on a medical team, and their leadership skills affect patient outcomes. Changing the way we think about and define physician leadership is a passion of ...

Dr. David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology, has a lot of confidence in the future of his field. But he also acknowledges that since health IT workers will be in ...

A new guide for higher education on improving cyber defense through campus-wide training offers actionable advice for institutions’ leaders on how to translate their core competency — education — into ...

U.S. Wheat Associates’ technical staff from offices across the globe came to the United States to learn about current research, market development and technical aspects of the U.S. wheat industry, as ...

Hospitals with ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designation are always seeking better ways to educate their nurses to ensure quality outcomes. For many facilities, part of this education process ...

Competencies are the skills, behaviors and performance standards that turn the "what" of an expectation into the "how." Business owners can use core organizational competencies to define the business ...

A function of the Associated Builders and Contractors, the Construction Core Competency program saves contractors money while fast-tracking employees to the workforce. A five-month-old program ...

In addition to training experiences at their primary site, all interns participate in core training experiences. This offers valuable breadth of training that contributes to achievement of program ...

The dispersed nature of operations and the asymmetric character of the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan have dissolved the traditional distinction between the front and the rear and exposed ...