9 Leadership Competencies
ust like every expert of every field of knowledge has some precise skills, leaders need to have some specific competencies as well. In 2001 the renowned author Anne Bruce wrote the book Leaders : Start to Finish
Integrity
According to Wikipedia, Integrity is “consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcome”.
The key to the concept is consistency of actions and values.
Trust and Values
A leader exhibits trust when the leader respect others, does as he/she says, communicates in an open way, and most important of all acknowledges that trust is a two way road, a mutual exchange.
The Values are the essence in the behavior of the leader, that’s why is so important that the company’s values are in sync with the one the leader has.
Team Building
A good leader, knows that building a team is essential to achieve the goals he’s ment to. He/she also knows the importance that being part of team has to every member in the organization, that’s why the leader fosters team building.
Listening
If you can’t listen, you can’t lead. As easy as that, being able to hear people is not only an skill is one of the first skills a leader should develop.
Influencing and Persuading
Using the right words, doing the right things, setting the proper examples. Influencing and persuading are necessary to make your team move towards your goals. Once again, is the leader’s behavior the one that persuades the most.
Competitive Spirit
Being the best at what you do, is one of the motivations of every leader. Without that kind of motivation, that sense of achievement, is difficult to reach higher developments on the endeavours you set for yourself. Every leader, has great expectations and a desire to be the best.
Priority Setting and Decision Making
A good leader knows what has to be done, and the importance of the things to be accomplished. So the leader has clear priorities, that helps him/her to take the proper decision under difficult circumstances. When in doubt, or in front of difficult times, clear priorites are the ones that help the most.
A Sense of Humor
Life is not a series of unrelated events, all the contrary, everything that happens in our lifes have certain relationship, if you don’t take your life with a sense of humor, it would be hard to confront difficult times and will be even harder to inspire trust in the people you work with, if you can’t take setbacks with the sense of humor that reveals trust and confidence in your means and the means of your team.
Vision and adaptability
If you think about leadership, you should think VISION. Yes, VISION. There’s no leadership if there’s no vision. You lead to somewhere, towards a goal, a target, an objective, your going after the big prize, and the people you lead is behind you toward that goal. On the other hand, you have to be flexible enough to accept that sometimes the road to the goal is sometimes longer than expected, you have to adapt yourself to that. In that sense a leader is called not only to initiate changes but to accept them too.
LEADERSHIP ACTIONS
Now you have 9 competencies to work on in order to improve your leadership style. Which one are you going to start working on?
1. Pick only one, and work on it a whole day.
2. Do it, you’ll improve.
3. Repeat, until you’ve worked on the 9 competencies.
4. Keep doing steps 1 through 3 until it becomes “second nature” for you.
Remember, Be Alert, Be A Leader 
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6 comments
Leader need to inspire people to adopt goals and values through exemplary behaviour, and motivate as well as facilitate people to achieve self-fulfillment through their own potentials finding lasting meaning for themselves while aligning with the organisational vision supported by smart viable strategies by the leadership.
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kshantaram
leader should have sense of humour but leadership does not require to humour his teamate.
MORDEN LEADERS CAREFULLY LISTEN TO THIER STAFF TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT
Great post!!! I completely argree with one competence, it’s persuasion. I used it in practice, as far as I’m a Foreign Language teacher, with the help of persuading my students I aroused their interest in language learning. It is very pleasant when your persuasion shows best outcome, but there should be reliable reason!!!
A leader is no different then the other team-members a Good leader is one who produces more leaders and not follower.!!
Leader should “Be Practical & Logical “When he Handling 5M(Man,Machine,Money,Material & Measurement of 5M)
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