Having spent many years as an executive team member or a director and adviser with both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, I’ve observed that the human qualities of competence and confidence are ...

Capable” kids have practiced coping and learned competence for life’s challenges. We’d argue that competence is deeper than ...

In the 1970s, a psychologist named Noel Burch created a learning model to describe how humans go through four stages of learning when introduced to a new skill. This model is known as “The Four Stages ...

Competence is the most neglected contributor to self-esteem. So much emphasis in the “self-esteem movement” that began in the 1970s was placed on ensuring that children felt loved that the role of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fame and fortune might be appealing, but new study findings suggest that they do little to fulfill one's psychological needs. Competence and autonomy, on the other hand, ...

One of the biggest challenges I have as an advisor to tech entrepreneurs is to convince you that marketing is required for your product, no matter how great it is, just to get it found with today’s ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Becoming a master of sales is a journey and a process. And while you learn a lot about yourself and others on that journey … it is not ...