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INSTRUCTIONS
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Review each of the skills listed and give yourself a score from 0 – 7 for each skill from the pull down menus below
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Refer to the competencies framework descriptions to make your selections.
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You will end up with 20 rankings (four per competency).
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Refer to the Rope Making example to guide your ranking.
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For example, a 3 rating represents mastery of a skill at the level of the Career description, but you are yet to demonstrate competency at the level above.
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A 4 rating represents competency of a skill at the level of the Advanced description, but you are yet to master all aspects.
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[Do not overthink this. The goal is to identify areas of strength and development, so focus on a relative over an absolute rating.]
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DevelopingCareerAdvancedExpertMy Rating
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Rope Making: Ties and uses the appropriate knot in a variety of situations. Understands fundamentals of natural and synthetic ropes.
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Can tie basic knots. Learning complex knots with guidance.Knows how to tie basic and complex knots. Calculates rope strength.Selects and ties the best knot for any given situation. Understands rope making processes and knot theory.Develops new knots for emerging situations. Improves rope and rope making processes. Mentors others in all things rope.3<-- example
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Competency 1: Strategy & Planning
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Strategic Thinking: Thinks about and articulates where we are headed and why it matters.
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Market Comprehension: Understands industry trends and market landscape to create competitive advantage aligned with overall business goals.
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Prioritization: Takes in a range of inputs and perspectives to clarify and prioritize the correct problem focus area. Why pursue one priority versus another is clear.
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Metrics-driven: Establishes, tracks and reports on SMART metrics for desired strategic outcomes.
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Competency 2: Product Sense & Insights
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Customer Empathy: Develops a deep understanding of the customer and their needs. Derives and communicates insights.
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User Science: Leverages modern quantitative and qualitative user science methodologies. Partners effectively with consumer insights and user experience teams.
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Data & Analytics: Gathers and analyses data. Is intellectually curious, hungry for insights, relentlessly seeks answers, open to being wrong, and shares and acts on learnings.
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Decision Making: Makes data-informed recommendations. Thrives in ambiguity remaining decisive given available information so to keep moving forward.
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Competency 3: Execution & Impact
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Delivery: Demonstrates a consistent shipping cadence to get quality product quickly into the hands of users.
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Technical Acumen: Understands the technology stack and its limitations, and makes smart trade-offs to accelerate progress while maintaining technical and user experience quality.
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Go-to-market: Ships the whole customer experience - not just the development of a new product feature or improvement, but the entire experience that surrounds it.
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Outcomes-oriented: Goes well beyond "shipping" or hitting milestones as a definition of success to driving measurable business and customer outcomes.
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Competency 4: Communication & Collaboration
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Communication: Impactful, frequent, multi-mode communication that builds confidence and achieves the desired responses by recipients.
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Stakeholder Alignment: Evangelizes to, collaborates with and aligns a broad cross-functional set of stakeholders on the product plan.
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Team Collaboration: Partners effectively with all teams that contribute or influence the product’s success.
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Focus & Clarity: Creates an environment that encourages a focused, engaged, high-performing team.
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Competency 5: Leadership & Culture
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Accountability: Displays a deep sense of ownership, accountability, and commitment.
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Growth-mindset: Strives for professional, personal and team growth – embraces feedback from others.
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Models Values: Lives and breathes the company's core values, provides feedback to others and a role model as grows in seniority.
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Motivates Others: Motivates and excites their cross-functional teams and stakeholders, celebrating success (and failure) and recognizing others.
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