Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Foundational Skills and Attributes


 Foundational Skills and Attributes

 “To provide a welcoming, healthy, and safe community”

In order to contribute to the achievement of the Town’s strategic plan, all employees require the following skills and personal attributes:

Communication: Ability to share information with and receive information from others in an open, direct and respectful manner ensuring messages are clearly understood.

Customer Service: Ability to identify, meet and exceed the needs and wants of internal and/or external customers

Diversity: Ability to work comfortably and effectively in a diverse workplace

Leadership: Ability to take personal responsibility for one’s actions and decisions and to follow through on commitments

Teamwork/Independence: Ability to work independently and/or co-operatively with others in order to achieve common goals and build positive relationships

Wellness: Ability to recognize symptoms of stress in self and take steps to minimize its impact to ensure good health and wellbeing.

Excellence: Gives attention to details, accuracy and customer service to the highest standards. Maintains expected work levels without sacrificing quality. Organizes tasks effectively to meet deadlines and commitments. Prioritizes tasks in coordination with team and Town's objectives. Obtains the necessary tools, knowledge and assistance to perform at high level. Takes advantage of opportunities to increase own job knowledge and technical skills.

Innovation: Thinks ‘outside the box’ to create approaches that increase effectiveness to processes and procedures; seeks and considers others’ ideas and suggestions with an open mind. Supports and adapts to changes within own team and the Town. Sets high performance standards and monitors own performance to find ways to improve. Proactively takes action to solve potential problems by creating effective solutions.

Integrity: Follows through on all commitments made by self or the Town to others. Takes ownership for actions and mistakes. Communicates and behaves openly and honestly at all times. Maintains confidentiality and the highest ethical standards. Consistently abides by our policies and procedures. Lives the Town's Mission through application of the values in daily work activities.

Partnership: Willingly works with others to accomplish tasks and balance workload. Develops and maintains positive relationships with other stakeholders (employees, customers, professional and community volunteers, visitors and citizens). Values the contributions of others and demonstrates enthusiasm and enjoyment of working with others. Appropriately shares knowledge and relevant information with others, and keeps all affective work partners up-to-date with progress and developments.

Respect: Consistently is courteous, and manifests sensitivity and empathy to other stakeholder’s (employees, customers, professional and community volunteers, visitors and citizens) needs. Openly listens to and ensures a clear understanding of other's needs. Facilitates and/or participates fully in meetings; promotes a positive image for self and the Town.
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