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Leadership competency wheel

“What is needed is more and better leadership” is frequently voiced by a whole spectrum of organizational stakeholders—prime ministers, presidents, premiers, CEOs, first line supervisors, professionals, front-line workers, newspapers, leadership consultants and community members.
But what is this leadership that we need more of?

The “new leader,” as defined by guru Warren Bennis is “… one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.” Whatever the definition, the skills of an effective leader are multiple.

Click here to see the a graphic version of the Leadership Competency Wheel.   

LEADERSHIP EDUCATION & WORKSHOPLETS™

Workshoplet™
Title

Item Number in The Encyclopedia of Leadership
Comments
“Connecting with your core.”
Results-based Leadership Principles
1.4
The importance of clarifying your leadership principles
“The character of leadership”
Basic Practices of Successful Leaders
1.5
The major habits that successful leaders cultivate to get the results they desire.
“The Power of Purpose”
Clarifying Purpose
2.6
Using purpose for commitment and energy in organizations
“Your business within the business”
Business Unit Strategy
3.3
The basics of strategy for business units
“Weaving the business web.”
Alliances: Partnering for Success
3.8
Basics of external and internal strategic alliances
“Bridging the Torrent of Change”
Leading Major Change
5.2
A process for leading change in organizations
“Crossing the torrent of change.”
Human Transitions
5.8
Helping people through change
“Untangling the webs we weave.”
Complex Situations
6.3-4
Sorting out complex situations with a group or an individual
“A Hat 6-Pack”
Optimizing Your Thinking
6.6
Increasing your range of thinking and your group to produce better results.
“Stick handling a puck of an idea into the goal of results” Creativity & Innovation
6.7
How to encourage new ideas and take them to action.
“The cartography of problem solving”
Mind Mapping
6.8
A powerful visual tool for analyzing problems and generating solutions.
“A process for all seasons.”
General Problem Solving
7.2
A general process dealing with issues for use in a group
“Decisions you can defend”
Decision Making
7.5
A systematic method for making decisions
“Leader-to-group, leader to group…”
Improving Leader-to-group Communication
8.3/4

The basics of leader to group communication
“Did you mean flower or flour?”
Active Listening
8.7
Active listening is essential to productive relationships & organizations..
“King, Queen, Fool or Knave?”
The Roles and Styles of Leadership
9.1/2
Matching your role to the situation for maximum performance
“Leveraging the power inside”
Delegation
9.3
When and how to delegate
“Freedom to focus”
Increasing Your Impact
9.4
Separating what a leader needs to influence from control and interest.
“Attracting Them Into The Tent”
Getting participation
10.7
Gaining employee participation
“Determining which wheels get the oil”
Priority Setting
10.11
A range of methods for priority setting as well as when and how to use.
“From painful to productive meetings”
Process Cycle
11.1
How to plan effective meetings
“Cultivating Foundations”
Building Trust into Working Relationships
12.2
Trust & how it impacts reputation, retention, productivity and profitability.
“The power of 3.”
Triangulation
12.3
When and how to get into the middle or when to stay out
“Knowing where you stand.”
Giving & Receiving Feedback
12.4/5
The crucial skills of giving and receiving feedback; creating a “speak out” culture
“Telling it like it is …”
Confronting Difficult Issues
12.6
Helping leaders deal with difficult performance issues
“Caught in the middle.”
Dealing with Conflict
12.7
Dealing with a truly human issue—conflict
“Ogres, Sherman tanks & Know-it-alls …”
Dealing with Difficult People
12.8
The types of difficult people and how to deal with them
“Igniting the fire”
Coaching & Supporting the Success of Others
13.1
Helping leaders to coach others
“Give and take, fair deals at work.”
Accountability Agreements
13.3
Defining personal accountability for business results
“What’s Urgent? What’s important?”
The Essentials of Time Management
13.5
How to manage your time.
“Taking Care of You”
Balance: Integrating Work and Personal Life
15.1
Analysis and Strategies for balancing personal and work life.
“Responding Effectively to Emotions in Self and Others”—Managing Emotions Intelligently
15.2
How your “emotional quotient” (EQ vs. IQ) is essential for your success.
“What you don’t know can hurt you.”
Assumptions
15.4
Understanding the power of the assumptions a leader uses
“Taming the Tigers of Tension”
Managing Stress as a Leader
15.7
Helping leaders deal with their own stress plus that of others
“Standing Out from the Crowd’
Lessons from Good to Great
Module from
Powerful Professionals
Moving from good to great as a leader or a professional
“Setting Up Great Roles”
Questioning Skills
Module from
Powerful Professionals
Using questions to set up powerful professional and leadership roles

 

Available later in 2004

Workshoplet™
Title
Item Number in
The Encyclopedia of Leadership

Comments
“Are we debating or discussing?”
Dialogue and Discussion
8.4
Differentiating and knowing when to debate, discuss or dialogue.
“Getting to yes-yes agreements”
Negotiation
9.5
Basic principles and practice of a “yes-yes” negotiation process.
“If you build it does NOT mean they will come.”
Selling your ideas
9.7
The “Grand Canyon skill”—no change takes place unless leaders sell it.
“What you don’t know can hurt you.”
The JoHari Window
15.3
The “JoHari Window” helps expand leaders’ much-needed self-knowledge.

 

© 2004 ROBERT COPPENRATH & ASSOCIÉS