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Core competencies

Core competencies

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Core competencies

- Here's the thing. There is no one great leadership style. Great leadership is always the intersection of the leader, the people they're guiding, and the situation they're in together. What might be great leadership in one context might actually be disastrous in the other. So developing your leadership style is really about understanding key competencies and more importantly how to flex them to bring out the best in the people you lead. Define, great leadership is the use of key skills and practices, correctly applied at the right time, to help the organization and its people reach their highest potential. There's a range of key leadership skills and practices, but they all fall mainly into four clusters of competencies. The first is self-awareness, which is knowing yourself, including your strengths and weaknesses, as well as how others perceive you. Consider self-awareness is the foundational skill upon which you…

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