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Leadership Skills

November 13, 2001

"Research at Psychological Associates has identified certain abilities or competencies required in a leader.  According to extensive research, these competencies include:

* Vision, purpose, and direction
* Technical/administrative skills
* Cognition/idea presentation/thinking skills
* Drive and motivation
* Trust and respect (in both directions)
* Teamwork and collaboration
* Ability to empower and enable performance
* Capacity to coach appraise, and reward performance (Buzotta, Lefton, Cheney & Beatty, 1998, p.41)."

Reference: Buzotta, V.R., Lefton, R.E., Cheney, A. & Beatty, A. (1998).
Making common sense common practice: achieving high performance by
using what you already know.  Boca Raton, Florida: St. Lucie Press.

Do you possess these competencies?

Making Common Sense Common Practice is available on loan from the Ohio State University Leadership Center.  A complete listing of all the Leadership Center's resources is available on our website http://leadershipcenter.osu.edu/

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Created: 2009-01-02, Updated: 2009-01-14