Descriptions of the Five Executive Core Qualifications The Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) define the competencies needed to build a federal corporate culture that drives for results, serves customers, and builds successful teams and coalitions within and outside the organization. The Executive Core Qualifications are required for entry into the Senior Executive Service and are used by many departments and agencies in selection, performance management, and leadership development for management and executive positions. OPM's provides detailed information on the Executive Core Qualifications. Definitions Leading Change Leading People Results Driven Business Building Acumen Coalitions This core This core This core This core This core qualification qualification qualification qualification qualification involves the involves the involves the involves the involves the ability to bring ability to lead ability to meet ability to manage ability to build about strategic people toward organizational human, financial, coalitions change, both meeting the goals and and information internally and within and organization's customer resources with other Federal outside the vision, mission, expectations. strategically. agencies, State organization, to and to this ECQ and local meet goals. Inherent to is the ability to governments, organizational this ECQ is the make decisions nonprofit and goals. Inherent to ability to provide that produce private sector this ECQ is the an inclusive results by organizations, ability to establish workplace that applying foreign an organizational fosters the technical governments, or vision and to development of knowledge, international implement it in a others, facilitates analyzing organizations to continuously cooperation and problems, and achieve common changing teamwork, and calculating risks. goals. environment. supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
Descriptions of the Five Executive Core Qualifications The Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) define the competencies needed to build a federal corporate culture that drives for results, serves customers, and builds successful teams and coalitions within and outside the organization. The Executive Core Qualifications are required for entry into the Senior Executive Service and are used by many departments and agencies in selection, performance management, and leadership development for management and executive positions. OPM's provides detailed information on the Executive Core Qualifications. Definitions Leading Change Leading People Results Driven Business Acumen Building Coalitions This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.