Illinois Supervisor Competency Model
Competencies are the foundation from which supervisors and managers build and enhance skills, knowledge, and abilities for effective performance. The Illinois Supervisor Competency Model provides a framework of skills that help individuals achieve the goals of their college, department, or unit while contributing to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Strategic Plan. Guided by its ambitious mission, the University depends on employees in supervisory roles to act with clarity of purpose, perform with expertise, and empower every employee to achieve professional success.
Competencies
Diversity and Inclusion
Involves prioritizing access and affordability as well as a responsibility to make institutional transformations necessary to remove barriers, assumptions, and biases that limit opportunities. Leaders and employees are expected to be responsible citizens who value knowledge, creativity, global awareness, and social and cultural understanding. They will create a climate where all can achieve their highest aspirations in a safe and welcoming environment.
Leading Change
Involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this competency is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing and highly ambiguous environment. Balances change with continuity and addresses resistance.
Leading People
Involves the ability to lead and inspire a multi-sector group (not only employees, but also other State, Federal, and local Government agency personnel, as well as contractors and vendors) toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this competency is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the motivation and development of others and facilitates effective delegation, empowerment, personal sacrifice, and risk for the good of the mission, as well as trust, confidence, cooperation, and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
Building Coalitions
Involves a broad point of view of the U of I’s mission and an understanding of individual or organizational responsibilities in relation to the larger U of I strategic priorities. The perspective is shaped by experience and education and characterized by a strategic, top-level focus on broad requirements, joint experiences, fusion of information, collaboration, and vertical and horizontal integration of information.
Results Driven
Involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this competency is stewardship of resources, the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
Enterprise – Wide Perspective
Involves a broad point of view of the U of I’s mission and an understanding of individual or organizational responsibilities in relation to the larger U of I strategic priorities. The perspective is shaped by experience and education and characterized by a strategic, top-level focus on broad requirements, joint experiences, fusion of information, collaboration, and vertical and horizontal integration of information.
Business Acumen
Involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Inherent to this competency is the ability to devise solutions with an understanding of how to impact business results by making connections between actions or performance and organizational goals or results, as well as external pressure points.
