Joseph Tramontana - Core Competencies for Strategic Leaders

Core Competencies for Strategic Leaders The strategic leader works at building up and maintaining a series of leadership competencies. By 'competencies' we learning and practising competencies affectively to reach desired goals. Competency covers communication skills, knowledge, practices and processes of the Effective Leader. The Essential Leadership Competencies 1. Confident streak- A confident leader is the one who inspires his team. He motivates his subordinates to set an expectation higher than what they usually do and make them realize the fact that setting a higher expectation will derive better results. 2. Builds a High Performing Team- The leader ensures that their Team will achieve their Goals and targets. They better understand group dynamics, and builds good team processes. They communicate well about team purpose, progress on goal achievement etc. Great leaders challenge and encourage people to improve. They find new ways of doing things and develop the desired competencies and team values. 3. Influence, persuade and motivate others- A leader must have the ability to get his team members to act in a desired way and creating enthusiasm to make things happen. They will give guidance and directions in an appropriate way to influence others and they are also open to new ideas and listen actively to others. In short they communicate to the team in a way that sways the group towards behaving in the desired way. 4. Delegating tasks to people with the right skill sets- To achieve desired results, a leader builds a culture of accountability and they model this with their behavior, showing accountability for themselves and for their team. Great leader uses fair processes and they organize action plans for sharing workload and effort of team members. They delegate crucial work among your team members and make them feel worthy. This will also give you a fair idea of the potential your team holds. 5. Builds Positive Working Relationships- A leader actively builds a network of positive working relationships with other departments, colleagues, and with clients. They take the accountability for ensuring a positive and effective relationship that can works well for the whole company. Responsible leader investigate the goals and stressors of other departments, and of clients and ensure that they work with unity to achieve common goals.