All core values
Performance
Competence
Being genuinely good at your craft — and keeping it that way as the work evolves.
Behaviors
- Maintains current skills deliberately
- Knows the limits of their expertise
- Delivers work that needs no rescue
Anti-patterns
- Confidence without substance
- Skills frozen at hire date
- Hiding gaps instead of closing them
Reinforce it with
- Learning budgets with expectations attached
- Craft reviews and peer feedback
- Hiring and promotion that test real skill
Competence is the quiet foundation every other value stands on.