Defining Leadership Competencies

Being Mindful

Understands one’s own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and recognizes their impact on others; enhances contribution to the organization by proactively seeking opportunities to develop these skills.

Displaying Interpersonal Savvy toward a unified vision of the future; demonstrates and ignites passion and purpose; commits to every task with the understanding of each task’s larger significance.

Able to effectively build and grow personal and work relationships; exhibits warmth and approachability, treating people with courtesy and respect; has a way of engaging others that immediately puts people at ease, defusing tense situations.

Thinking Strategically

Demonstrating Courage + Grit

Takes initiative and steadfastly mobilizes self to act; demonstrates confidence and candor in difficult situations, gaining support and commitment from others.

Recognizing Potential

Discovers and keeps highly talented employees; makes it a priority to be constantly looking for the next hire.

Communicating Ef fectively

Cultivates open communication, speaking 100% of the truth; comfortable using a broad range of communication styles, choosing appropriate and effective ways to communicate to different audiences in diverse situations.

Building Relationships

Able to effectively develop mutually beneficial relationships and partnerships based upon trust, respect, and achievement of common goals.

Learning from Experience

Successfully applies lessons learned from previous experiences to future work; displays a willingness to learn from the past; regularly seeks out feedback from others.

Navigating Ambiguity

Makes sound decisions and achieves forward progress under uncertain circumstances; recognizes what is important and draws on one’s knowledge and experience to successfully utilize limited information.

Displaying Creativity

Generates new and unique ideas by making original connections among previously unrelated notions; challenge current ways of thinking; uses unorthodox methods to identify opportunities for improvement in work behaviors and procedures

Inspiring Others

Excites and motivates individuals, teams, or organizations to strive

Generates and develops unique insights through exploring, evaluating, and integrating information relevant to achieving a goal or set of goals; challenges current ways of thinking.

Leading Change

Establishes and executes the necessary change in a continuously evolving internal and external environment; consistently communicates clear expectations and seeks feedback to successfully navigate the change.

Positivity

A frame of mind that transforms one or more individuals and their organizations through the ability to collectively harness five essential elements—inspiration, mindfulness, happiness, optimism, and gratitude. The continued development and adoption of these five elements as a way of life help to continually manifest productive changes in one’s life, and when amplified among other individuals, within an organization.

Identify your top three leadership competencies (i.e., your strengths):

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Which two competencies do you need to work on? Write one goal for each.