leadership competencies - searching in all the wrong places - bob andesrson

7/30/2019 Leadership Competencies - Searching In All The Wrong Places - Bob Andesrson

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Leadership Competencies -Searching in All the Wrong PlacesWritten By: Bob Anderson CEO & Founder of

The Leadership Circle


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While leadershipcompetencies play a very important part

in developing eective leaders, they are not the key to

development. Certainly leaders need to continue to

improve their competency models, especially in a world ofescalating global complexity. But, in that search, they must

not lose sight of the fact that competency is only part of the

equation for developing eective leadership. Focusing

exclusively on competency will cause leaders to miss how

development actually happens.


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While the Leadership Circle Profiles contain avery robust set of leadership competencies,a competency-only approach misses the

power of The Leadership Circle altogether.


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In a world of escalating global complexity, manyleaders find themselves In over their heads.This phenomenon results when the

leaders Operating System is not

complex enough to match thecomplexity of the challenges facing

the leader. In this case, the leader

needs more than skill development.

The leader needs to develop greater

complexity of mind.


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The Leadership Circle is founded on the

principle that competency-only approachesare inadequate to the challenge of developingleaders for the complexity they are nowfacing.


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Merely identifying an improved set

of competencies, can only

marginally enhance one's ability to

develop eective leaders.

Eectiveness, in more complex

leadership roles, requires a more

advanced leadership operating

system. Therefore, the Leadership

Circles assessments contain a

robust competency assessmentthat is packed into a much larger

framework for developing leaders.


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System Dynamics TheoryIn System Dynamics Theory, structure determines

performance. In other words, the primary determinate of

the performance of any system is the design of that system.Underneath the design of the system is the thinking and

assumptions that formed the design. In other words,

thinking creates the design, and design determines the

performance.


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Deep structure is the system of the thinking thatdrives a leaders pattern of behavior.Deep structure is the Leaders Operating System.The Leadership

Circle Proles are designed to surface deep structure. They create

a platform that allows us to inquire into the beliefs andassumptions that are the source-code for the pattern of

behavioras measured in the competency data.

The benets of this approach are obvious: accessing the

underlying assumptions that drive behavior creates the

opportunity to redesign the operating system. This allows thedesired leadership eectiveness to develop naturally.


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The Leadership Circle Assessment

tools are powerful because they

include a complete competency

model and because they provideimmediate access to the deep

structure conversation. This

combination serves-up

breakthrough developmental

opportunities.


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