19 leadership competencies and 59 strategies to develop them

In this article you will learn the following

-19 essential business-leadership competencies - that as a business leader you have to constantly upgrade

-60 ways you can develop your business, leadership, organizational and employee competencies

Developing your leadership, business, behavioral, professional and employee's competencies

When you work on improving your organization's core Business and employee's competencies - your organization becomes an adaptable and competitive learning organization - which ultimately leads to increased productivity and bigger market-share and higher revenue-profit increase.

For your business growth and success - you must have optimally knowledgeable, skilled and well-trained workforce.

Developing your Core competencies gives you unparalleled competitive advantages that creates a powerful positioning in the mind of your clients and your prospective employees.

This also creates distinction for your products, services and capabilities from others in your field.

For organizational level competencies - you have to clarify - your core-focus philosophy and then identify what culture-competencies your organization needs to drive your vision to reality.

Your employee competencies will cascade from these organizational competencies.

But to address all issues that you are facing - you may go crazy by identifying a very long wish-list of competencies at the organization level - which won't be practical and feasible

For selecting employee-competencies - by first create job-levels as per the leadership-pipeline concept AND then identifying maximum 10 competencies for each different job-levels.

19 essential business-leadership competencies - that as a business leader you have to constantly upgrade

• 1.Competencies for business-success - for organization
• 2.Business scaling competencies - for organization
• 3.Business sustaining competencies - for organization
• 4.Positioning and niche-building competencies - for organization
• 5.Disrupting and tread-creating competencies - for organization
• 6.Customer attracting and customer acquiring competencies - for organization
• 7.Customer retaining competencies - for organization
• 8.Talent attract and talent-retaining competencies - for organization
• 9.Performance improvement competencies - for organization
• 10.Competencies for becoming a learning organization - for organization
• 11.Competencies to become a organization of future - for organization
• 12.Competencies to become a customer-centric and customer-focused organization - for organization
• 13.Competencies to become employee building organization - for organization
• 14.Competencies to remain market-leader - for organization
• 15.Technical competencies - for employees
• 16.Functional competencies - for employees
• 17.Behavioral competencies - for employees
• 18.Leadership competencies - for employees
• 19.Leadership competencies for leading your organization and your employees

60 ways you can develop your business, leadership, organizational and employee competencies

• 1.Create a business vision that resonates with your employees and the customers - this means having a defined set of goals, vision, mission and core values to motivate to inspire and to give directions
• 2.Develop and polish Strong leadership-communication skills - to create strongest buy-in for higher vision
• 3.Develop the Ability to notice, gauge and use the changing trends in the customer's needs and requirements
• 4.Create unmatchable value proposition for - your customers as well as employees
• 5.Identifying the gaps in the marketplace - and develop your niche to fill this gap
• 6.Identify & Know what resources you have
• 7.Create strategy and learn how to create Optimum utilization of all the available resources - for the best outcomes
• 8.Learn, Understand and Master all the important numbers - both financial and market indicators
• 9.Learn and Become highly Effective in management of your organization's cash-flow
• 10.Attract, recruit and retain the very best talents
• 11.Have people who are more qualified, experienced and expert than themselves and those who challenge qualitatively and meaningfully
• 12.Constantly identify and upgrade the needed competencies of their employees - use all types of tools
• 13.Know when there is conflict brewing and become good in resolving conflicts among team members
• 14.Create and keep modifying processes and systems - that enables organization to scale business
• 15.Know competition and use their best practices along with the global ones - to outperform their competition
• 16.Ensure effective and meaningful and powerful engagement with customers and employees alike
• 17.Make adding unparalleled value to all stakeholders especially their consumers - the most important priority
• 18.Create global benchmarks in service - to make their customers becomes their powerful marketing arm
• 19.Know which of the core business competencies - help you create distinction and positioning in market
• 20.Improve your core competence and instill entrepreneurship mindset among the employees
• 21.Always on the lookout for converting global best practices of other business and fields into yours
• 22.Outsources all those activities and elements that are non-core and does not fall under your strong suits
• 23.Allow employees to make mistake while trying out new skills and ideas for creating excellence and improving
• 24.Introduce a culture of coaching-mentoring-handholding - and manage it from the top
• 25.Learn a new language, learn to play a musical instrument, learn to experiment and cook
• 26.Learn about your profession and also about what you can imbibe from other professions
• 27.Train you employees in - business acumen, problem-solving, decisiveness, handling ambiguity, strategic thinking, creativity and innovation, conflict-resolution, result and achievement orientation and other 60 core skills
• 28.Develop team & role-level competencies all across your organization
• 29.Use assessment and development centers - to recruit, to promote and to build your talent-pool
• 30.Include competencies based appraisal in your performance review -incorporate strengths into performance conversations during reviews
• 31.Create career-growth opportunities -allow strong employees to take responsibility for their own career opportunities through special assignments or off-site activities
• 32.Use cross functional training among to employees who show strength in particular areas - allow them to participate in new projects / working groups in your workplace
• 33.Create expert groups of based on different technical roles and let them participate in good professional forums
• 34.Let your employees volunteer for meaningful social-causes
• 35.Make team sports part of your organization's regular affairs
• 36.Encourage and do regular research to keep up-to-date with the industry trends and to be aware of your closest competitors practice trustworthiness & ethics skills - be consistent
• 37.Have a huge vision - and then divide big goals into smaller ones – by breaking large tasks into smaller, more achievable targets
• 38.Keep an eye on your progress – engage a mentor
• 39.Improve your adaptability skills - put yourself in situations where you don't necessarily know what to expect
• 40.Experiment and try out new ideas regularly to solve existing challenges and problems
• 41.Create a learning organization become a growth practitioner
• 42.Understand the triggers - that motivates and encourages your customers as well as your employees
• 43.Identify what are the disadvantages of your product and services that your competitors are taking advantage of and taking away your market share
• 44.Identify what disadvantage of your competitor's product and services - that you can take advantage of and increase your market share
• 45.Create your growth strategy focused on customer and market driven philosophy
• 46.Refine your communication & influencing abilities
• 47.Work on your strategic communication
• 48.Manage your stakeholder expectations effectively
• 49.Focus on thinking-global and acting-local thought process in your organization
• 50.Train your managers to deal with and maximize the use of millennial's potentials and skills
• 51.Create digital fluency among your team members
• 52.Simplify the TQM, TPM, 6-sigma, lean and all effective tools to implement at the grass-root levels - for most effective organization
• 53.Use the emerging technologies for maximum advantage
• 54.Integrate all your thinking skills - critical thinking and analytical skills, the ability to draw connections and to find new and innovative Perspectives, the ability to work systematically and objectively to break complex problems down into manageable steps, research skills, quantitative skills, computer skills, critical thinking and creative problem solving skills
• 55.Develop emotional and social intelligence
• 56.Become comfortable delegating tasks - build relationships with your team
• 57.Maintain consistently high quality to offer incomparable value and great customer service
• 58.Go for continuous innovation to implement successful marketing strategies
• 59.Identify and strengthen your Skills and Leadership competencies for leading your organization and your employees
• 60.Think how you can disrupt - the way things are taken for granted AND how this can be created a business from

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