Skills of a Leader

Discussion Paper
S K Jaiswal
20th Nov 2011

Research into Leadership

Skills
Profession

Based Skills and validation of

leadership approaches:

Pharma, Principals, Engineers, Nurses, Medics, Ethnic

students,
Are there generic leadership skills?
Leadership

Approach based skills

Each approach defines its own set of skills

Need to define a competency model first and
then identify the skills required?
Career/Level

Based Leadership skills

Leadership Pipeline as defined by Ram Charan

Prepare a hierarchy of skills required at each
passage?

Other issues in Leadership

skills
Cultural

factors
Environmental factors
Individual Traits
Maturity and development of
subordinates
Neuro-science based skills
Psychology based issues:

Personalities, e.g. MBTI personality types

Positive Psychology- Seligman
Emotional Intelligence based.

Difference between a Skill and a

Competency?
The

terms "skills" and "competencies"

are often used interchangeably, but
they are not necessarily synonymous.
Competencies may refer to sets of
skills, but "competency" is more of an
umbrella term that also includes
behaviors and knowledge,
whereas skills are specific learned
activities that may be part of a
broader context.

Managerial Vs Leadership
Competences

Definition of Leadership
Leadership is a process whereby
an individual influences a group
of individuals to achieve a
common goal
- Northouse, 2010, p3

The Leadership Pipeline

How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company
AUTHOR: Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2001
NUMBER OF PAGES: 242 pages

Basic Principle
The Leadership Pipeline model provides a framework upon
which organizations can be built while reconfiguring old ones.
At each passage a person has very specific values, compulsory
skills, and necessary time applications.

Scope and Complexity Increases

Getting results through comprehensive Enterprise

Leadership & Statesmanship.

Getting results through Business Managers.

Getting results through comprehensive business

management.
Getting results through a function.
Getting results through managers.
Getting results through others.
Getting results through personal effort.

Leadership Development

Based on the Leadership Pipeline: there are skill, time, and value
development needs at each leadership turn.
Source: The Leadership Pipeline, by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel

Model Based Skills

Leadership Competencies

Leadership CompetenciesII

Leadership CompetenciesIII

Leadership competencies
- IV

Leadership competency
model

The Diagram below shows the Pyramid of Leadership, while the table below it explains each level in more detail:

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