Global Leadership Competencies

Leadership competencies: an introduction.

O ur goal with this column is to provide a useful, practical introduction to competency modeling, a practice that is already a mainstay in many health professions and that is likely to find expanded use within health administration in the coming years. The competency model recently made available by the Healthcare Leadership Alliance (HLA) will serve to frame subsequent installments of this col...

Intrapersonal Competencies and Service Leadership

Intrapersonal competencies form the foundation of one’s development, and they are fundamental qualities of leadership competences. Four types of intelligence are highlighted in the literature of positive psychology: intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence quotient (EQ), adversity quotient (AQ) and spiritual intelligence quotient (SQ). It is argued that these competences are important...

Memoirs reflect CHA leadership model core competencies.

T Wo books currently oil the market. Jack Welch's Straight from the Gut* and Katharine Graham's A Personal HistoJ n offer much food for thought about leadership, as well as highlight the qualities M^\ frailties of successful leaders. The lives of Jack Welch and Katharine Graham reflect several of the core leadership competencies in the GHA Mission ("entered Leadership Model: personal integrity,...

CHA project identifies core leadership competencies.

Leadership Competencies: time to change the tune

This paper indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalise and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two discrete sets of data: a review of leadership compet...