The TMA Competencies are composed of 53 competencies in 12 languages, have been thoroughly validated, and include behavioral examples for each competency at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels. Each competency comes with interview questions, development activities, and coaching tips.

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53 TMA Competencies are used for:

Profiling for job descriptions

The TMA Competency Library enables organizations to develop profiles for roles, teams, functions, and projects. These profiles are the most effective approach to communicate what the organization wants from its personnel.

0, 90 or 360 degree feedback

Competency profiles are an excellent basis for feedback. TMA offers comprehensive 360-degree feedback: Create a profile and start your online 360-degree feedback on competencies now!

Basis for TMA Career Coach

TMA Career Coach analyzes 8,000 career opportunities and offers the largest and most sophisticated search engine for current job openings. It includes detailed skill descriptions and job criteria for each position, as well as relevant TMA competencies. The commercial edition of TMA Career Coach includes a strong search engine that indexes practically any online vacancy in seconds.

Combined with TMA Talent Assessment

The TMA Talent Assessment reports on personality and reveals 22 motives, 53 competencies, and 44 TMA talents in a positive and non-judgmental way.

Combined with TMA Career Assessment

Encourage your candidates to choose a different career path. TMA Talent Assessment, when combined with TMA Career Assessment, allows you to quickly identify your candidates' talents, easily developable competencies, interests, and, most importantly, open positions.

Competency Profile Creation Tools

It is not easy to create job profiles. TMA offers tools to simplify this process:

Competency Set Assessment

If you want to present a good profile, you need feedback from other professionals. TMA has developed the Competency Set Assessment for this, a special practical tool with which you can create your own predefined basic profile and send an automated feedback questionnaire to the most important stakeholders. You will automatically receive a report with all feedback. This report makes it easier for you to choose the best profile.

Advice on competency profiles

TMA provides information about the competencies that are suitable for a particular position or role. All you need to do is let us know what work someone needs to do and what tasks they need to perform, and TMA will help you build your ideal profile.

TMA Competency Library

The TMA Competency Library App can be downloaded for free from the App Store or Google Play. It contains all behavioral examples, coaching advice, development activities, and interview questions for 53 competencies.

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FAQ

What are competencies?

Competencies are the talents, drives, skills, and abilities that manifest as visible behaviors and contribute to individual and organizational performance.

Why are competencies important?

Hiring employees for specific positions or functions based on their skills and abilities is an effective strategy for communicating expected behavior. Employees perform better, feel more involved, and produce more tangible results for the organization when they understand what is expected of them.

Why use TMA Competency Library?

The 53 TMA competencies have been extensively validated and contain behavioral examples for each competency at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels. TMA's Competency Library enables organizations to create profiles for roles, teams, functions, or projects.