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being a leader today. People are sensing that we need more capabilities than we have right now.” By taking a holistic approach to leadership development, CCL agrees, we have the opportunity to expand our capabilities, boost our effectiveness, and improve leadership outcomes. What’s the Big Difference? The traditional behavioural com petencies approach and the “Beyond Competencies” approach are rooted in different assumptions:
Behavioural Competencies Assumptions
Behaviours & Inner World Assumptions
x Behaviours are a result of deliberate and conscious processing.
x State of mind and body influence how leadership is enacted; behaviours can reflect automatic processing, emotions, thought patterns, past experiences, and level of self-awareness. x Leadership is a function of circuitry, inner content, conscious engagement and external behaviours. The four are inherently interconnected. x Helping leaders understand their inner world leads to increased self- awareness, adaptive behaviours and responses, and more effective leadership.
x Leadership is the function of explicit behaviours.
x Holding leaders accountable for certain behaviours helps them to become better leaders.
Read Leadership Development Beyond Competencies: Moving to a Holistic Approach for more insight into the limits of the behavioural competencies approach to leadership development, the 3 additional elements, valuable resources for more information — and the challenges involved in taking a new “inner worlds” approach.
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Article 14 – Leadership (Competencies)
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