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Workforce Development Strategy
Assessment
EPA's Workforce Assessment Project has identified the competencies (skills, knowledge and attributes) of the current workforce, projected the competency needs for the future, and identified the gaps between these two. This information can assist managers and supervisors as they determine what competencies will be needed to do EPA work in the future.
Today's Competencies
- Communication
- Occupation-specific skills
- Collaboration, team orientation
- Broad environmental science understanding
- Customer orientation
- Analysis, critical thinking, problem solving, and reasoning
- Work orientation, attitude, professionalism
- Creative, innovative thinking
- Information technology
- Leadership
Competencies for 2020 and Beyond
- Multimedia acumen
- Cross-occupational acumen
- Nurturing coalition "co-creators"
- Integrating, global & national
- Creating shared minority power
- Customer value satisfaction
- Facility with complexity
- Creatively managing human behavior
- Leveraging the "super-symbolic"
- Catalyzing combinations of players
- "Responsible Individualism"