The TMA Competencies consist of 53 competencies in 12 languages and have been extensively validated and contain behavioral examples for each competency at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels. Each competency is provided with interview questions, development activities, and coaching advice.

Download Competencies Download in PDF

53 TMA Competencies are used for:

Profiling for job descriptions

The TMA Competency Library allows organizations to create profiles for roles, teams, functions, or projects. These profiles are the best way to express what the organization expects from its employees.

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 indexes 8000 career opportunities and has the largest and smartest search engine for actual vacancies. It contains hard skills descriptions and requirements for each position, enhanced with appropriate TMA competencies. In the commercial version of TMA Career Coach, a very powerful search engine indexes almost any online vacancy within seconds.

Combined with TMA Talent Assessment

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

Help your candidates choose a different profession. Through TMA Talent Assessment, combined with TMA Career Assessment, you quickly find out where the talents, competencies that are easy to develop, interests and especially open vacancies for your candidates lie.

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.

"People perform better and are more engaged when they work according to their natural talents!"

FAQ

What are competencies?

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

Why are competencies important?

Hiring employees for specific positions or functions based on their competencies and talents is an important strategy for clarifying expected behavior. Employees perform better, feel more involved, and bring more tangible results to the organization when they know 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.