Essay On Leadership Competencies

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Introduction
Many Scholars characterize the core qualities and skills necessary for an effective leader. Useem defines leadership as “Creating a vision and translating that vision into actions”. Historically, an effective leader was assumed to be exceptionally knowledgeable, authoritative, and dominate. Those leaders applied the command and control method to lead an organization. With the passage of time, this definition has been changed. The modern definition of an effective leader is honest, courageous, trustworthy, inspirational, and result-oriented. Today’s leaders create shared values and vision, and empower others to achieve their targets.
In addition, an effective leader is always confident and creates shared sense of purpose. Basically, leadership is an attempt that influences and motivates constituents; however, how can an individual assess whether they influence others in a positive way? To help individuals in assessing their leadership competencies, several methods/tools have been developed by scholars; I used Leadership Competences Scorecard Inventory (LCSI) to discover my leadership capabilities.
Many individuals and organizations, uses these tools to evaluate leadership abilities. It is almost similar to a SWOT analysis, which measures strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and treats. I find the LCSI extremely effective because it assesses leadership competencies in five major areas: personal, analytical, communication, organizational and positional competencies. Then, it further operationalizes the five important skills into core qualities that exceptional leaders own. After completing my scorecard, I was able to do my SWOT analysis. It assisted me to identify my strong and weak areas. In this pape...

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...ffective communication, I need to be involved in continues act of translation and negations. I need to fully understand what gestures means in a diverse culture.
I extremely need to translate my words and speak as clearly as I can. If I create an attitude of modesty and respect, there is a possublity others will respect me as well. I should try to build relationship within my organization. I need to have tolerance for ambiguity and behavior flexibility, so I can influence people in a positive way. I also need to be motivated in adaptively to the different ways of diverse group. I need to become adaptive when I encounter difficulties; I should be capable of interacting in various situations irrespective of my culture where I happen to be. I should experience constantly a personal process of change because I find new challenges in different situations