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Leadership Competencies: The Big 6

 

The Big Six Plus One—All the competence it takes to lead

Welcome to the capstone column in our series on what it takes to be an ideal leader/manager. We began by noting that decades of leadership research has narrowed a much longer list to six competencies that predict effective leadership in a wide variety of settings (the 20 percent of competence that accounts for 80 percent of performance).

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A Leader Cannot Not Communicate

The final competency in our series, communication, is a collection of skills generally defined by the medium you use to deliver your message. And while the grand eloquence of a superb leader’s speech, such as Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream,” is often used to define the epitome of communication competence, the actual definition of good leadership communication is much simpler.

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