If you feel competent at work, you may be viewing romantic relationships in terms of performance, particularly ego-boosting task-accomplishments. This makes acceptance and affection dependent on ...

Hybrid competence is the newest soft skill with an outsize impact on your career. Here's how you can work it into your résumé. By Jackie Bischof ...

"Competent jerks put all their energy into being competent at the cost of relationships." Jerk Today, Lovable Star Tomorrow Take a hard look in the restroom mirror: Would you want to work with you?

In the business of safety, we talk about competency and use the term “competent person.” OSHA refers to and requires competent persons in several of its standards and defines the term as ...

Find a sponsor who knows your work. For many of us, it is hard to espouse our own value or promote our own work. There are likely people around you who know what you contribute.

Want to be a manager your team respects and trusts? Learn five ways to lead with empathy, clarity and courage — and boost ...

And you sure as heck don’t want to show up as anything less than fully able and competent. But our habits sometimes betray us. We can’t be “on” 100 percent of the time.

However, once you've established your competence, smiley facing may be less likely to influence what others think about your abilities. Finally, if you are at the receiving end of a smiley face ...