ITU Managerial Competencies: The Four Pillars  

Leading and Managing People

Performance Evaluation

Level One Skills

  • Makes sure staff understand evaluation criteria and evaluation process
  • Works with staff to articulate clear performance plans and goals

Level Two Skills

  • Works with staff to rewrite position descriptions and performance plans as organizational change occurs *
  • Follows up throughout the year to ensure goals are appropriate and are being attained

Staff Development

Level One Skills

  • Identifies staff members’ strengths and delegates tasks appropriately
  • Uses rewards and recognitions effectively to recognize staff contributions
  • Encourages professional development within resource constraints
  • Directs staff having difficulties with personal and professional life to appropriate resources

Level Two Skills

  • Recruits, develops, and retains a diverse and qualified workforce in an equitable manner
  • Employs different approaches to getting work done
  • Expands individual staff responsibility with assignments that increase discretionary range and scope

Collaboration and Team Building

Level One Skills

  • Identifies and addresses morale concerns
  • Encourages and facilitates cooperation within the organization and with customer groups
  • Identifies and helps resolve conflicts to the satisfaction of all parties

Level Two Skills

  • Develops leadership through coaching, rewarding, and guiding staff toward goal accomplishments
  • Prevents conflicts by proactively addressing sources of conflict
  • Creates a culture of trust, confidence, and high ethical standards through personal demonstration

Customer Relations

Level One Skills

  • Actively promotes the ITU Customer Service Guidelines
  • Uses a regular process of service evaluation from all customers
  • Identifies customers and understands their needs
  • Identifies customer concerns and collaboratively develops solutions

Level Two Skills

  • Analyzes customer input to improve services
  • Proactively anticipates customer needs
  • Seeks continuous improvement in quality of services, products and processes