Six Sigma and the 67 Lominger Competencies

Six Sigma and the 67 Lominger Competencies

In today’s world economy, it pays to show off operational or operations excellence.  What worked ten years ago is commonplace today.  Companies have to continually reinvent themselves and develop their human potential.

World wide companies such as Motorola, GE, and Tyco have adopted quality management strategies such as Six Sigma and Lean.  Metrics, targets, and benchmarks have become the mesh of large corporations’ ways of promoting interdepartmental communications and gauging management by objectives against inter-departmental efforts.

Where’s Six Sigma, ISO, and TQM with respect to the Human Resources arm of your office?  It seems that the only thing that harmonizes with your HR team are balanced scorecards and Six Sigma Change Plots and Employee Participation Surveys.

Many world class organizations are increasingly resorting to the Lominger Competencies when completing their annual employee evaluations in such a way that the the human potential aspect ties into the Lean Six Sigma effort.

The Lominger Competencies were invented by Michael M. Lombardo, Ed.D., and Robert Eichinger, Ph.D. and they’re a great performance measurement tool for employee development.

1.  ACTION ORIENTED

2.  DEALING WITH AMBIGUITY

3.  APPROACHABILITY

4.  BOSS RELATIONSHIPS

5.  BUSINESS ACUMEN

6.  CAREER AMBITION

7.  CARING ABOUT DIRECT REPORTS

8.  COMFORT AROUND HIGHER MANAGEMENT

9.  COMMAND SKILLS

10.  COMPASSION

11.  COMPOSURE

12.  CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

13.  CONFRONTING DIRECT REPORTS

14.  CREATIVITY

15.  CUSTOMER FOCUS

16.  TIMELY DECISION MAKING

17.  DECISION QUALITY

18.  DELEGATION

19.  DEVELOPING DIRECT REPORTS AND OTHERS

20.  DIRECTING OTHERS

21.  MANAGING DIVERSITY

22.  ETHICS AND VALUES

23.  FAIRNESS TO DIRECT REPORTS

24.  FUNCTIONAL/TECHNICAL SKILLS

25.  HIRING AND STAFFING

26.  HUMOR

27.  INFORMING

28.  INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

29. INTEGRITY AND TRUST

30.  INTELLECTUAL HORSEPOWER

31.  INTERPERSONAL SAVVY

32.  LEARNING ON THE FLY

33.  LISTENING

34.  MANAGERIAL COURAGE

35.  MANAGING AND MEASURING WORK

36.  MOTIVATING OTHERS

37.  NEGOTIATING

38.  ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY

39.  ORGANIZING

40.  DEALING WITH PARADOX

41.  PATIENCE

42.  PEER RELATIONSHIPS

43.  PERSEVERANCE

44.  PERSONAL DISCLOSURE

45.  PERSONAL LEARNING

46.  PERSPECTIVE

47.  PLANNING

48.  POLITICAL SAVVY

49.  PRESENTATION SKILLS

50.  PRIORITY SETTINGS

51.  PROBLEM SOLVING

52.  PROCESS MANAGEMENT

53.  DRIVE FOR RESULTS

54.  SELF-DEVELOPMENT

55.  SELF-KNOWLEDGE

56.  SIZING UP PEOPLE

57.  STANDING ALONE

58.  STRATEGIC AGILITY

59.  MANAGING THROUGH SYSTEMS

60.  BUILDING EFFECTIVE TEAMS

61.  TECHNICAL LEARNING

62.  TIME MANAGEMENT

63.  TOTAL WORK SYSTEMS

64.  UNDERSTANDING OTHERS

65.  MANAGING VISION AND PURPOSE

66.  WORK/LIFE BALANCE

67.  WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

Fore more about the competencies, visit http://lominger.com

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