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Korn Ferry's 38 Competencies

Korn Ferry's 38 competencies include ensuring accountability, being action oriented, and managing ambiguity. Ensuring accountability involves holding oneself and others responsible for commitments and results. Being action oriented means taking on challenges with urgency and enthusiasm. Managing ambiguity is about operating effectively when the path forward is unclear. The document also briefly outlines competencies for attracting top talent, having business insight, and collaborating.

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Korn Ferry's 38 Competencies

Korn Ferry's 38 competencies include ensuring accountability, being action oriented, and managing ambiguity. Ensuring accountability involves holding oneself and others responsible for commitments and results. Being action oriented means taking on challenges with urgency and enthusiasm. Managing ambiguity is about operating effectively when the path forward is unclear. The document also briefly outlines competencies for attracting top talent, having business insight, and collaborating.

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Korn Ferry’s 38 Competencies

1. Ensures accountability
• Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
 Follows through on commitments and makes sure others do the same
 Acts with a clear sense of ownership
 Takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures
 Establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and
measuring results
 Designs feedback loops into work
2. Action oriented
• Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy,
and enthusiasm
 Readily takes action on challenges, without unnecessary planning
 Identifies and seizes new opportunities
 Displays a can-do attitude in good and bad times
 Steps up to handle tough issues
3. Manages ambiguity
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
 Deals comfortably with the uncertainty of change
 Effectively handles risk
 Can decide and act without the total picture
 Is calm and productive, even when things are up in the air
 Deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes
4. Attracts top talent
• Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
 Attracts and selects diverse and high caliber talent
 Finds the right talent to meet the group’s needs
 Closes talent gaps with the right balance of internal and external candidates
 Is a good judge of talent
5. Business insight
• Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s
goals
 Knows how businesses work and how organizations make money
 Keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the
organization, with the competition, and in the marketplace
 Uses knowledge of business drivers and how strategies and tactics play out in
the market to guide actions
6. Collaborates
• Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
 Works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared
objectives
 Represents own interests while being fair to others and their areas
 Partners with others to get work done
 Credits others for their contributions and accomplishments
 Gains trust and support of others

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