Threshold competencies include basic knowledge, skills, traits, motives, self-image and social role and are essential for performing a job. Without these, some areas of performance will be substandard. To move beyond minimal performance, additional competencies are required.

What does threshold competency mean?

Threshold competencies are those actions and processes that you must be good at just to be considered as a potential supplier to a customer. Core competencies are things that you are able to do that are very difficult for your competitors to emulate.

What are the different types of competency?

Some of the popular contrasting competency types are as follows:

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