Competency: Entrepreneurship

Organizational Skills

Business Acumen
Strategic Focus
Strategic Insight
Entrepreneurship
Company
Fiscal Management
Planning
Vision
Global Perspective

Entrepreneurship

Encourages dynamic growth opportunities.
Able to adapt the department to changing business demands and climate.
Understands the processes and various stages of business development.
Is constantly monitoring sources and dynamics of change.
Devotes a certain amount of time and effort to developing new business opportunities.

Confidence

Is confident in themselves and what they can do.
Has clarity of purpose in their actions.
Believes in themself.
Exhibits a high sense of self-belief.
Shows confidence in their actions.

Risk Taking

Encourages risk taking for developing potential business opportunities.
Risks his/her time, effort, and reputation toward the completion of goals.

Bias for Action

Is motivated to work toward the realization of goals.
Works hard toward the realization of goals.
Takes the initiative to complete tasks.
Sets business policies and procedures.
Maintains a high level of energy to respond to demands of the job.

Visionary

Has a strategic awareness on how to promote the organization.
Believes in their vision for the department/organization.
Identifies issues that need to be addressed.
Identifies problems that need solved.
Identifies solutions to problems.
Creates new ideas about what (or how something) should be done.

Tenacity

Exhibits determination and passion in completion of goals.
Does not quit when faced with adversity.
Continues forward even in the face of adversity.
Is able to continue progressing in difficult times.
Finds resources necessary to complete tasks.

Leverages Others

Excellent at managing relationships with stakeholders.
Knows when to listen to the advice of others.
Shares success with others.
Delegates tasks to others.

Opportunistic

Finds unique ways to go around barriers to success.
Willing to cross-lines that others would not cross.
Defies conventions and the "normal" way of doing things.

Self-Development

Seeks to grow their own skills.