CRITICAL COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS

Leadership:

• Leading with Purpose & Values: Living the organization’s purpose and values by keeping it at the forefront of employee’s decision making and actions. Acting as a role model, passionate about our brands, our heritage, and our future.

• Valuing Inclusion & Diversity: Working effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, interpersonal styles, abilities, motivations, or backgrounds; making the most effective use of the capabilities, insights, and ideas of all individuals.

• Building Trust: Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one's intentions and those of the organization.

• Building Organizational Talent: Establishing systems and processes to attract, develop, engage, and retain talented individuals; creating a work environment where people can realize their full potential, thus allowing the organization to meet current and future business challenges.

Interpersonal:

• Courageous Collaboration & Feedback: Developing purposeful relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of goals and personal growth by acting with candor, kindness, and humility, acting courageously and with vulnerability when seeking, receiving, and providing feedback.

• Strategic Influence: Creating and executing influence strategies that gain commitment to one’s ideas and persuade key stakeholders to take action that will advance shared interests and business goals.

• Energizing the Organization: Motivating increased employee effort by communicating a compelling view of the organization’s purpose and its future state in a way that helps others understand the importance of their contributions and feel how outcomes will be different when progress is achieved.

• Passion for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.

Business/Operational:

• Establishing Strategic Direction: Establishing and committing to a long-term business direction based on an analysis of systemic information and consideration of resources, market drivers, organizational values, and emerging economic, technological, and regulatory conditions.

• Driving Execution: Translating strategic priorities into operational reality; aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.

• Innovation: Creating an environment that inspires people to generate novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external); encouraging experimentation with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differentiated solutions.

• Global Acumen: Demonstrating an understanding of the international economic, social, cultural, technological, legal, and political trends that impact the organization’s ability to compete globally; leveraging own understanding of the organization’s global strategy, global business trends, and unique regional differences to adjust approach to enhance business unit and organizational results.