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12 Core Competencies For Great Leadership

Lead Change Blog

At its root, leadership is a collection of competencies. This list outlines the most central of those competencies. Asked to define what a great leader is, many people might say something like “Great leaders have integrity” or “Great leaders inspire people” or “Great leaders lead by service and setting the right example.”.

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Test Your Core Competencies

CO2

I also like Hamel and Prahalad three-question test for helping clients determine if one of their capabilities is actually a core competency : Does the capability make a disproportionate contribution to the ultimate customer value, and/or does it allow the company to deliver value to customers in an appreciably more efficient way?

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What is drama costing your organization?

Lead Change Blog

Three core competencies for compassionate accountability. Listen in as Next Element Co-Founder and CEO, Nate Regier discusses how drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. How conflict can be a creative force.

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How to Make an Even Better Career Elevator Pitch

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership Skills: 6 Core Competencies Let’s Grow Leaders (letsgrowleaders.com). Related articles about communication, confidence, and leadership: Presenting to Executives: How to Have More Confidence. What’s one piece of career advice you wish you had learned sooner? How to Get Your Boss Excited About Your Great Idea.

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Competencies – are they dead? Or are we ignoring the true 3 core competencies?

Rapid BI

Are competencies and how HR (and managers/ professional bodies) often relate to them irrelevant in today’s business world? Do we actively ignore true core competencies? I was at a training workshop recently, and the trainer was talking about competencies. The post Competencies – are they dead?

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How Do I Change My Reputation as a Leader? (Asking for a Friend)

Let's Grow Leaders

Be sure to review our 6 Core Competencies You Can’t Lead Without. Be a genuinely interested and supportive leader who shows up as consistently helpful in order to increase trust and connection. At Let’s Grow Leaders, we call this “land in the AND” – be an interesting expert AND an interested connector.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Key here is to figure out what are the core competencies of the organization — those that can’t be let go without it ceasing to be a viable enterprise. Sometimes, however, an organization discover a core competence after it has outsourced it.