Select Strategically-Aligned Leadership Competencies

Increase leadership capabilities by selecting brand-aligned competencies and developing to them.
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Major Business Pain Points

  • Developing leaders has been the #1 organizational priority for three years running according to our HR Trends and Priority survey.
  • Leadership development has taken top spot because good leaders have a significant impact on agility, employee attraction and retention, organizational alignment, and financial performance. Further, current leadership development efforts are widely seen as ineffective.
  • Establishing formal leadership competencies is the first step in both understanding what your organization needs and closing leadership gaps.
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Recommendations

Key Points

  • Leadership competencies should be easy to understand, develop, and implement. They should guide all leaders with not only what to do, but also how and why to do it. Many experts agree that the majority of leadership competencies will be roughly the same across industries and organizations.
  • McLean & Company’s seven strategic leadership competencies have been developed from a future-forward perspective aligned with general business deliverables to ensure measurability and accountability for the program and from leaders.
  • Since organizations are unique and differ from each other, we do not advocate a “cookie cutter” approach. Your organizational strategic imperatives will determine which competencies from our framework will best drive and support your future goals.

Approach

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  • Competencies lay a foundation for leadership performance expectations-setting, measurement, and development investment.
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Methodology and Tools

1. Prepare for project launch

Isolate strategic business imperatives and conduct a culture review.

  • Storyboard: Select Strategically-Aligned Leadership Competencies
  • Leadership Competencies Workbook

2. Establish leadership competencies

Select and modify leadership competencies to reflect organizational goals and culture.

3. Deploy and integrate leadership competencies

Manage stakeholder expectations and the budget for future phases.

  • Leadership Competencies Administration Guidelines

4. Craft competency descriptions

Determine proficiency levels for each competency, by tier.

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