Lominger FAQ
What does Lominger offer my organization?
Lominger’s range of products and services, known as the LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT® Suite, are research-based, experience-tested, and internationally recognized tools that can be customized to fit any organization’s culture or operating style. Lominger tools are integrated around 67 Competencies, called the LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT® Competency Library. Our integrated solutions allow people from different areas of an organization to work together more effectively because they share a common language. Use of the tools helps you to create a competency model, recruit for new hires, give feedback, or design a development plan using the same competency language. As a result, you spend less time interpreting and more time adding value to each process.
How do you pronounce it?
Lominger is named for its two founders, Michael Lombardo and Bob Eichinger. The correct pronunciation is “LOM–” like TOM and “–inger” like singer. LOMinger.
Where do I start?
All roads lead to competencies. A competency is a measurable characteristic of a person related to success at work. It can be a skill, an attribute, or an attitude. Since competencies drive the majority of job success, knowing what the key skills are and measuring them effectively make HR systems work better—recruiting, deployment, development, performance, succession. Competencies are the universal common denominator.
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Why 67 Competencies?
As people are complex, the characteristics that describe their behavior are many and varied. When creating the Competency Library, founders Bob Eichinger and Mike Lombardo asked two questions. The first was “Do we know people who have one of the competencies and not the other?” The second question they asked was “Would we develop these things the same way?” This resulted in a Library of 67 Competencies with different behavioral descriptions as well as development tips and remedies for each. To describe a job, approximately 22 competencies are needed. Seven or eight competencies may be all it takes to differentiate a superior performer from an average performer. But for development, the big picture should be taken into account. We recommend using all 67 Competencies in 360° assessment because what’s good enough for today might not produce results tomorrow.
What are Career Stallers and Stoppers?
Career Stallers and Stoppers are items that research demonstrates can stall or stop someone’s career. They are not always the opposite of a skill or a lack of a skill, but rather the presence of something that has a negative effect. Lominger has identified 19 Career Stallers and Stoppers. The 19 Career Stallers and Stoppers come primarily from three sources: the continuing work of the Center for Creative Leadership, the work of Jon Bentz while he was at Sears, and the executive development work and experiences of Lominger founders Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger.
Working on Stallers and Stoppers is a bit different than building a competency. A staller is a much more serious and likely results from many sources. Therefore, you will find separate development plans for the Stallers & Stoppers in FYI For Your Improvement™ and the CAREER ARCHITECT® Development Planner that include tips you would not see in a Competency chapter.
What is “certification” and why would I need it?
Certification in a Lominger tool is the result of endorsement by a Lominger facilitator for demonstrated comprehension of content and commitment to best practice application of the tool. Some Lominger tools require certification to assure applied practice and knowledge transfer for advanced tools.
To receive certification, you may attend a Lominger public certification course or become certified by Lominger Consulting or a member of Lominger’s Global Associate Network. Certification is provided to individuals rather than organizations. Should you become certified in a Lominger tool, you are able to take the certification with you to future roles at other companies. The "LEADERSHIP ARCHITECT® 101: Understanding Competencies Workshop" is a prerequisite for advanced certification to provide a solid foundation in the core of Lominger content and research. Certification opportunities are slightly different for independent consultants or consulting organizations. If you are a consultant and are interested in certification, please contact events@lominger.com.
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What is an intellectual property license and when would I need one?
An intellectual property license allows your organization to incorporate and tailor the Lominger products to your organization’s culture. Licenses are necessary to create any derivative work, which is any product that alters the original work. For example, copying portions of the content into another document, adding or deleting from the content, making changes to the wording, or adding in your own company training options creates a derivative work that requires an intellectual property license. If you use products in their existing format, such as sorting cards and posting your results in a tally sheet or using FYI For Your Improvement™ to create your personal development plan, you do not need a license.
Purchasing products or becoming certified does not give you permission to copy from, reprint, create derivatives, or modify Lominger products. All of these activities require an intellectual property license. LEARN MORE Licensing Overview
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