Leveraging Your Competency Currency™

Awareness is the first step in the creative process. As you grow in self-awareness you will better understand why you make the choices you make, and what possibilities and choices are available to you. Self-understanding and acceptance will give you the opportunity and freedom to change those things you would like to change—and create the career and life you envision.

Competency Currency™ supports self-awareness and acceptance. It is an outcome that combines assessing your skills, values, and strengths that coincides with the current climate of your organization or marketplace.

Simply put, it is a process for gaining self-awareness to help you navigate change within your career, your organization, and your field or industry.

Using this “self-assessment” process promotes and expresses an understanding for the value proposition that occurs at a specific time within your career. Ultimately it provides a clear and concrete platform to reflect on the necessary steps for prioritizing decision-making in an ever-changing environment. It supports enterprise priorities, grows trust between people, delivers outcomes, and facilitates communication needed for collaboration.

Competency Currency should not be seen as an objective measurement, but should be viewed as a socially constructed object. Competencies are ranked differently at different times between people and within organizations. Any sort of human trait could be an object of social construction. It is how those traits are perceived and communicated that provides the range of fluctuation for measuring Competency Currency in any environment. An important condition for this is a willingness to learn how to look at oneself objectively, to be honest with oneself in terms of identifying areas of professional improvement, and to be open to feedback from others.

Leveraging your identified competencies within a group can provide a “currency” that may identify you as a potential peer partner or leader for new or existing initiatives. Consider this: What is your Competency Currency at this time? Is it time to invest and learn how to raise your Competency Currency within your organization?

It is important to evaluate your own professional behavior in relation to innovation and performance improvement. Direct and concrete feedback on your competencies can serve as a combined evaluation from inside and outside yourself. Gaining this recognition capability will come from using a process for evaluating your values and intellect that resides within. Your ability and talent for focusing and direction will be the outward manifestation of the process Promoting Brilliance utilizes and you will know in highly efficient ways, how to find it inside—and—use it outside.