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| Leadership Competencies – A Better Way |
| Developing leadership talent is crucial to success in today’s challenging business environment. Defining leadership expectations and requirements can be challenging but there are ways to ensure simplicity, flexibility and relevance amidst constant market and technological changes.
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| Competency approaches underlie a majority of leadership talent initiatives within organizations these days. Human resource professionals like competencies because they go beyond the basic job requirements to identify the behaviours top performers demonstrate to realize success. When successfully identified, differentiated and validated, competencies can provide managers and employees at all levels with a shared language for discussing workplace requirements and performance.
Unfortunately, in many organizations, the concept makes good sense but design and implementation is weak. Unnecessary complexity often creeps into competency-based approaches and meaningful validation can be virtually non-existent. In addition, today's rapidly changing marketplace often requires leaders to quickly change their approaches to meet new and emerging business needs. Specific competencies and behaviours, identified at a moment in time, may feel restrictive in both context and application.
In recent conversation with a senior leader regarding inclusion of key leadership competencies as part of his executive team's narrative 360 feedback process, a particular comment emerged that resonated with me. 'Well', said the CEO with a smile....... (cont'd) |
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Leadership Skills for the 22nd Century
Much ado has arisen over the potential for computers to replace humans in the workforce. From self-driving trucks to machine learning algorithms that analyze big data, every industry will be touched in some way. Like many new technologies, AI sounds intimidating, but the purpose of it is to improve human lives, not replace them. And the stronger the leadership that manages this technology, the better its additions to humanity will be. Three skills will be critical to our future generation of leaders.
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How to Create Executive Team Norms — and Make Them Stick
While many factors contribute to the best and worst teams, one practice consistently helps enhance team performance: having an agreed-upon set of group norms and, more importantly, a set of practical steps to follow those norms. Having a set of norms that an executive team consistently follows helps members clarify each other's intentions, increases trust, saves time, decreases backbiting and politics, and sets a clear operational compass for the rest of the organization.
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