What does competency mean to you?

Simply put, competence is the set of knowledge skills and abilities to perform your job role/responsibility.
The ability of exercising your competence adequately is competency.

Competency is the basic skill set required to perform one's job adequately.
It could range from technical knowledge to computers and communication skills.
Hiring is based on competency level of applicants.
Competencies of any job varies with its nature, eg.
for a carpenter competency would be adept in using his tools and choosing the wood and in other scenario for a computer programmer it would be to have sufficient knowledge of different programming languages and their use.

Ensuring you meet the demands of your clients, by having good skills, doing research and consulting and trying to do things timely and communicating of the progress on duties given.

Role or responsibility is the design of the job in which the employee needs to transform himself/herself into.
Competency is a personal trait of a particular person.
It can be considered as strengths of a person with regard to a techinical skill

Competencies are individual abilities or characteristics that are key to effectiveness in work.Competencies are the characteristics of a manager that lead to the demonstration of skills and abilities, which result in effective performance within an organizational area.Competencies can apply at organizational, individual, team, and occupational and functional levels.Competencies can be learnt and developed.

Competency means established skill for any specific thing which push you closer to the best possible result

االكفاءة بالنسبة لى تعنى :قدرة الفرد على امتلاك المعارف والخبرات والمهارات اللازمة لاتقان عمله وذلك بحسب طبيعة العمل

Competencies includes communication skills, ability to resolve conflict and work through a crisis or under pressure.
Competencies refer to the skills and disposition needed to manage a job or group of people.

Role(King):Giving Commands.
Responsibility(Solders):Obeying Commands

To be in place commensurate with my experience.......

The working personnel who have similar role/responsibilities can compete with others with their performance ( eg speed performance, Successfully completing, Cost minimizing etc...)