8 NACE Competencies for Faculty and Staff

Emphasizing the importance of continuously develop oneself and one’s career through personal and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within and without one’s organization. 

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Acknowledge the importance of awareness of own strengths and areas for development by including assignments like surveys for self-assessment 
• Identify areas for continual growth while pursuing and applying feedback. 
• Aid students in developing plans and goals for one’s future career. 
• Encouraging students to professionally advocate for oneself and others. 
• Urge students to display curiosity; seek out opportunities to learn. 
• Establish, maintain, and/or leverage relationships with students to be able to help them professionally through lecture and office hours. 
• Offer and encourage development opportunities. 
• Provide opportunities for students to participate in further education, training, or other events to support one’s career. 

Instructing students how to clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization. 

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Emphasize the importance of and expect verbal, written, and non-verbal/body language abilities by participating in seminars. 
• Encourage active listening, persuasion, and influencing skills. 
• Communicate in a clear and organized manner so that students can effectively understand and also demonstrate this behavior. 
• Model communication with respect to diversity of learning styles, varied individual communication abilities, and cultural differences. 

Encouraging students to identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information. 

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Promote problem-solve and decision-making using sound, inclusive reasoning and judgement. 
• Require students to gather and analyze information from a diverse set of sources and individuals to fully understand a problem in papers  
• Create the expectation for students to accurately summarize and interpret data with an awareness of personal biases that may impact outcomes. 
• Encourage multi-tasking well in a fast-paced environment. 

Demonstrate to students the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures. Engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism. 

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Solicit and use feedback from multiple cultural perspectives to make inclusive and equity-minded decisions through group work.  
• Actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change for students. 
• Advocate for inclusion, equitable practices, justice, and empowerment for historically marginalized communities. 
• Encourage students to seek global cross-cultural interactions and experiences that enhance one’s understanding of people from different demographic groups and that leads to personal growth. 
• Demonstrate flexibility by adapting to diverse environments. 
• Address systems of privilege that limit opportunities for members of historically marginalized communities. 

Teach students how to recognize and capitalize on personal and team strength to achieve organizational goals.  

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Inspire, persuade, and motivate students and others under a shared vision through group work.  
• Promote students to seek out and leverage diverse resources and feedback from others to inform direction. 
• Motivate students to use innovative thinking to go beyond traditional methods. 
• Serve as a role model to students by approaching tasks with confidence and a positive attitude. 
• Motivate and inspire students by encouraging them and by building mutual trust. 
• Require students to plan, initiate, manage, complete, and evaluate projects. 

Giving students the opportunity to understand and demonstrate effective work habits, know that work environments differ greatly, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace. 

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Enforce equitable acts with integrity and accountability to self, others, and the course. 
• Maintain a positive personal brand in alignment with organization and personal career values. 
• Be present and prepared and encourage students to model this through iClicker and attendance.  
• Demonstrate dependability (e.g., report consistently for lecture). 
• Urge students to prioritize and complete tasks to accomplish organizational goals. 
• Require students to consistently meet or excel goals and expectations. 
• Have an attention to detail, resulting in few if any errors in your work, and encourage students to do this through insightful assessments in grading.  
• Show a high level of dedication toward being a good professor. 

Motivate students to build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities. 

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Listen carefully to others, taking time to understand and ask appropriate questions without interrupting and encourage students to practice this through seminars.  
• Model how to effectively manage conflict, interact with and respect diverse personalities, and meet ambiguity with resilience. 
• Be accountable for individual and team responsibilities and deliverables through assigning group work.  
• Employ personal strengths, knowledge, and talents to complement those of others while encouraging students to do this as well. 
• Exercise the ability to compromise and be agile. 
• Collaborate with students to achieve common goals. 
• Build strong, positive working relationships with students in lecture and office hours.  

Familiarize students with technology so they understand and leverage it ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals. 

Sample Behaviors to Display to Students:

• Navigate change and be open to learning new technologies by utilizing new platforms in class for assignments and activities.  
• Use technology to improve efficiency and productivity of student’s work. 
• Identify appropriate technology for completing specific tasks and inform students. 
• Require students to manage technology to integrate information to support relevant, effective, and timely decision-making. 
• Quickly adapt to new or unfamiliar technologies and utilize them in the classroom. 
• Manipulate information, construct ideas, and use technology to achieve strategic goals in student’s learning.