Developing Your Leadership, Business and Organizational 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

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