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.