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C 2.0 Human Capital Management

Managing all team personnel elements to achieve a coherent, efficient, and effective project team including identifying, recruiting, selecting, managing, and evaluating team members.

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Categories and Competencies

Common Competencies



C 2.1 Staffing and Performance

Managing all elements of personnel management, including identifying, recruiting, selecting, managing, and evaluating the team members to achieve a coherent, efficient, and effective team. This includes vigorous open communications, decision-making processes, and working relationships.

Underlying Skills

  • Ethics
  • Leadership
  • Strategic thinking
  • Win-win negotiations
  • Working in teams

Fundamental Knowledge of:

  • Agency and project mission, goals, and objectives
  • NASA and contractor workforce policies and practices
  • Project architectures and concepts
  • Political, economic, and other factors that influence project goals

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Team Practitioner / Discipline Engineer
Proficiency Level
Participates as a project team member to gain an overall understanding of the staffing and performance activities and to gain initial experience in the competency.
Illustrations
Team Practitioners/Discipline Engineers should be able to describe, identify, or define:

  • The roles and responsibilities of team members.
  • How they can monitor their own performance level.

Team Lead / Subsystem Lead

Proficiency Level

  • Leads teams (intact and at a subsystem level) in the execution of staffing and performance activities.
  • Provides guidance and expertise to team members, assisting in resolving issues.
Illustrations
Team Leads/Subsystem Leads should be able to:
  • Define team members’ roles and responsibilities.
  • Monitor the performance of subsystem team members.
  • Apply appropriate team management techniques and concepts to guide a qualified team toward maintaining the desired performance level for a subsystem or simple project.

Project Manager / Project Systems Engineer

Proficiency Level

  • Leads teams at the project level in the execution of the staffing and performance activities.
  • Provides guidance and expertise at the project level, resolving project issues.
Illustrations
Project Managers/Project Systems Engineers should be able to:
  • Integrate the team responsibilities and roles for each member.
  • Monitor the performance of subsystem leads.
  • Assemble teams with complementary talents and necessary skills, expertise, and experiences.
  • Establish the desired performance level and criteria of the system’s workforce.

Program Manager / Chief Engineer

Proficiency Level
Leads overall effort, reviews and approves products, resolves issues, and maintains relationships with the highest level internal, external, and international contacts.

Illustrations
Program Managers/Chief Engineers should be able to:

  • Identify and assemble the required leadership personnel resources for a program.
  • Establish performance criteria for a program’s workforce to ensure mission success.
  • Establish the agency’s workforce personnel and infrastructure requirements to ensure mission success.

C 2.2 Team Dynamics and Management

Managing the team aspects of the workforce. This requires working cooperatively with diverse team members; designing, facilitating, and managing team processes; developing and implementing strategies to promote team morale and productivity; motivating and rewarding team members’ performance; managing relationships among team members, customers, stakeholders, and partners; and facilitating brainstorming sessions, conflict resolution, negotiation and problem-solving, communication, collaboration, integration, and team meetings.

Underlying Skills

  • Clear communications
  • Interpersonal
  • Leadership
  • Strategic thinking
  • Win-win negotiations
  • Working in teams

Fundamental Knowledge of:

  • Project mission, goals, and objectives
  • Project organization and team makeup
  • Political, economic, and other factors that influence project goals

Explore proficiencies for each role.

Team Practitioner / Discipline Engineer
Proficiency Level
Participates as a project team member to gain an overall understanding of aspects of team dynamics and management and to gain initial experience in the competency.
Illustrations
Team Practitioners/Discipline Engineers should be able to describe, identify, or define:

  • The relationship between team members, customers, stakeholders, and partners.
  • How to work within the team’s communication, collaboration, and integration dynamics.

Team Lead / Subsystem Lead

Proficiency Level

  • Leads teams (intact and at a subsystem level) in team dynamics and management aspects of the project.
  • Provides guidance and expertise to team members, assisting in resolving issues.
Illustrations
Team Leads/Subsystem Leads should be able to:
  • Apply appropriate team management techniques and concepts to effectively develop and motivate a team.
  • Manage the relationships and interfaces among team members and the customers, stakeholders, and partners as they pertain to a subsystem or simple project.
  • Plan and facilitate effective team meetings.

Project Manager / Project Systems Engineer

Proficiency Level

  • Leads teams at the project level in team dynamics and management aspects of the project.
  • Provides guidance and expertise at the project level, resolving project issues.
Illustrations
Project Managers/Project Systems Engineers should be able to:
  • Explain the team’s direction and focus in order to maximize mission success.
  • Manage the relationships and interfaces among team members and the project’s customers, stakeholders, and partners.
  • Create a team environment that fosters opportunities to conduct activities for brainstorming, conflict resolution, negotiation, and problem-solving.

Program Manager / Chief Engineer

Proficiency Level
Leads overall effort, reviews and approves products, resolves issues, and maintains relationships with the highest level of internal, external, and international contacts.

Illustrations
Program Managers/Chief Engineers should be able to:

  • Establish an incentive program to enhance the performance and productivity of the program’s workforce teams.
  • Develop and maintain positive relationships among the program’s leadership team to ensure mission success.
  • Identify and manage the interfaces and relationships among the stakeholders and partners that may impact program and mission success.
  • Plan and facilitate effective leadership team meetings for the program.