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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has identified five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs). The ECQs define the competencies needed to build a federal corporate culture that drives for results, serves customers, and builds successful teams and coalitions within and outside the organization. The ECQs are required for entry to the Senior Executive Service and are used by many departments and agencies in selection, performance management, and leadership development for management and executive positions.

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Leading Change

This core qualification focuses on strategic transformation as an imperative component of leadership. The ability to meet organizational goals inside and outside of an organization is explored through leading change. Also intrinsic to this core qualification is the implementation of a clear vision within a fast-moving, ever changing organizational environment. Skills including creativity and innovation, resilience, flexibility, strategic thinking and awareness are important pieces of this puzzle.

Creativity and Innovation

Creativity and innovation are the key to developing new insights, questioning conventional methodologies.

Flexibility

The ability to adapt and thrive under intense conditions enables changes and increases organizational effectiveness.

Strategic Thinking

An ability to create objectives and priorities consistent with the long-term goals of the organization.

External Awareness

Successful leaders understand and stay abreast of international, local, and national policies.

Resilience

True leadership requires strength and resiliency, which is a crucial characteristic.

Vision

Visionary leaders take a long-term view of their organization. They cast the vision, then use their influence.

Leading People

This core qualification emphasizes the best ways to promote a workplace that nurtures the development of every individual, while facilitating teamwork on a grander scale and promoting constructive conflict management. Encouraging diversity to developing a team with cooperation at the center, a wise leader utilize teams to strengthen their organization.

Conflict Management

Conflict management goes beyond managing challenges between team members. It encompasses all aspects of conflict, both negative and positive. Encouragement of creative tension and differing opinions, while anticipating any unproductive conflict enables teams to thrive. Effective leaders resolve disagreements constructively.

Developing Others

An ability to improve the performance and contribution of others is an important leadership skill. This is accomplished through ongoing feedback, formal and informal growth and development opportunities.

Leveraging Diversity

The workplace thrives through leveraged diversity. An all-inclusive organization benefits from differing values as long as they are acknowledged and integrated. Doing so will enable teams to create a harmonious and integrated culture and meet mission, goals and objectives.

Team Building

Leaders builds cohesive teams when they inspire people to trust each other, engage in conflict around ideas, commit to decisions, hold teams accountable and achieve collective results. The end result is cooperation, motivation and increased morale.

Results Driven

This core qualification focuses on the ability to meet the highest levels of customer expectations and organizational vision. Leaders know the perfect balance of technical knowledge, analysis of challenges and risk mitigation to drive results.

Accountability

Accountability

While each individual must be held accountable for mistakes and their ability to deliver measurable, high-quality, on-time and cost-effective results, leaders are at the forefront.

Decisiveness

Decisiveness

Leaders must make effective, time-sensitive, and well-informed decisions with whatever data is available. Even if solutions require uncomfortable change or consequences, leaders ACT.

Problem Solving

Problem Solving

Pinpointing and then analyzing problems are key ingredients of a result-focused leader. Balancing the weight of varying information, evaluating possible solutions.

Customer Service

Customer Service

Anticipating and meeting the needs of customers is critical to success as an organization. Leaders must anticipate the needs of both internal and external.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Leaders must develop and maintain an attitude of entrepreneurship by creating innovation and opportunity. Leaders look for new opportunities for growth and act on them quickly.

Technical Credibility

Technical Credibility

Isolating and understanding procedures, requirements, regulations, policies, and principles that align with various specialized expertise is critical to results.

Business Acumen

This core qualification promotes the strategic use of management skills in the financial, informational, and human resource sectors. Each aspect, when aligned, creates a seamless mission and execution.

Financial Management

Understanding the financial aspects of an organization includes the preparation, administration, and justification of a specific budget.

Human Capital Management

A multi-sector workforce with unpredictable workplace situations requires keeping, engaging, and inspiring workers on a 1:1 basis.

Technology Management

Staying up-to-date on the latest technological tools is critical. Utilizing technology to attain specific organizational goals is equally important.

Building Coalitions

This core qualification focuses on the skills needed to build strong partnerships both internally and externally. External partnerships include those with other federal agencies, state and local governments, private and nonprofit organizations, or international organizations all focused on common goals and objectives.

Political Savvy

Internal and external politics effect the way an organization functions. Leaders develop their intuitions and are consciously aware of their environment.  

Partnering

Collaborating and building strategic relationships expands resources, improves the customer experience and boosts employee morale.  

Influencing/Negotiating

Influence is a process that requires planning at every level. The power of language is critical to every leaders ability to deliver surface and underlying messages. 

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