competencies

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Early relationships teach us basic social competencies: how to express emotions, cooperate and forgive, and how and when to compete—all skills we use at work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Lund said that the board had proposed bringing in several new board members to add new competencies, while the majority shareholder, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, "wanted a more extensive reconfiguration".

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

I feel like General Zod from Superman, floating off into space trapped inside a two-dimensional phantom zone, screaming in silence about my job qualifications and core competencies.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

Any student who failed their final placement had the opportunity to repeat it and achieve the competencies they had not achieved in a four week retrieval, the inquiry heard.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

But the competencies of the earlier years were spent, and age could only plan for the activities in which it should not share.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee