One Percent™ Leadership – 52 Management Competencies

Sometimes, three hours on a flight with spotty internet service is a good thing. It allowed me to start and finish Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People. In the text is a list of management competencies – 52 in all. Gee – 52 competencies, 52 weeks in a year – sounds like the stuff that make up lists and to-do action items. Or, perhaps, it’s a checklist of sorts to continue growing as One Percent™ Leaders.

Here’s a straightforward way to build our proficiencies as leaders. Print, sync, cut, copy, paste – your call – the list below. Look it over. Think it over. Each week, pick a competency that could use an upgrade. Then, determine one simple change, task, or habit that builds your success in that competency. When the week is done, you’ll see progress – and new skills to build upon. Check that competency off this list and move along. This time next year, your One Percent™ Leadership skills will secure your spot as an A-Player, a chief spotlight of this book.

Enjoy your One Percent™ Results.

Intellectual Competencies

1. Intelligence.
2. Analysis skills.
3. Judgment.
4. Decision-making.
5. Conceptual ability.
6. Creativity.
7. Strategic skills.
8. Pragmatism.
9. Risk-taking.
10. Leading edge.
11. Education.
12. Experience.
13. Track record.

Personal Competencies

1. Integrity.
2. Resourcefulness.
3. Organization/planning.
4. Excellence.
5. Independence.
6. Stress management.
7. Self-awareness.
8. Adaptability.

Interpersonal Competencies

1. First impression.
2. Likability.
3. Listening.
4. Customer focus.
5. Team player.
6. Assertiveness.
7. Oral communication.
8. Written communication.
9. Political savvy.
10. Negotiation.
11. Persuasion.

Management Competencies

1. Selecting A-Players.
2. Coaching.
3. Goal-setting.
4. Empowerment.
5. Accountability.
6. Re-deploying B- and C-Players.
7. Team-building.
8. Diversity.
9. Running meetings.

Leadership Competencies

1. Vision.
2. Change leadership.
3. Inspiring.
4. “Followership.”
5. Conflict management.

Motivational Competencies

1. Energy.
2. Passion.
3. Ambition.
4. Compatibility of needs.
5. Balance in life.
6. Tenacity.

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