The document discusses key leadership competencies for the future. It identifies emotional intelligence, effective communication, and adaptability as critical skills. Emotional intelligence involves self-awareness and social competence. Effective communication is the ability to inspire, persuade, and accomplish goals through speaking to others' needs. Adaptability requires being authentic internally and externally to create trust. The document also emphasizes skills like understanding ripple effects of decisions, having courage to make difficult choices, and being a team player who puts others first.

1. LEADERSHIP
COMPETENCIESBy Kristian Moeller
04-29-2015

2. AGENDA
What’s driving
tomorrow’s leadership
What leadership
competencies are
needed

3. WHAT’S DRIVING
TOMORROW’S LEADERSHIP
• Radical
Transparency
• The Power of Giving
• Constructive Conflict
• Tri-sector Leaders
• Beyond the Bottom
Line

4. What leadership
competencies are needed
• Emotional
Intelligence
• Effective
Communication
• Ripple intelligence
• Adapt Authentically
• Courage
• Team Player

5. EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
• What is emotional
intelligence?
• 90% of top performing
leaders possess high EI
• It starts with self-
awareness
• Personal competence
and social competence
are the big drivers
“No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book
smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important
in the making of a leader. You just can’t ignore it.”
- Jack Welch

6. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
• Communicates and
network effectively
• Ability to inspire people
• Successfully persuades
and influence others
• Effective
communication to
accomplish goals each
and every day
• Ability to speak directly
to others needs
“The art of communication is the
language of leadership”
- James C. Humes

7. RIPPLE INTELLIGENCE
• Can predict how
trends and contexts
may intersect, interact,
and change direction.
• Understands the risks
the company is facing
and have the edge to
develop new forms of
competitive advantage
• Understands how new
decisions affect the
company and industry
Source: The CEO Report

8. ADAPT AUTHENTICALLY
• Authenticity is top of
mind and adaptability
is top of agenda
• Is authentic both
inside and outside of
the organization to
create trust amongst
stakeholders
• Have a strong sense
of purpose even under
pressure for change "Just be who you are and speak from your
guts and heart – it's all a man has”
- Hubert Humphrey

9. COURAGE
• Have the drive, the
passion, and the need to
succeed
• Not afraid of making
difficult decisions and
commit to the strategic
direction even in
adversity
• Takes responsibility and
holds others accountable
for actions, decisions,
and goals. “Courage is the first virtue that makes all
other virtues possible”
- Aristotle

10. TEAM PLAYER
• Drives alignment
and teamwork within
a team, department,
or across
organizational
boundaries
• Putting others needs
in front of your own
• Keeping your
integrity
“Individuals play the game, but teams
beat the odds”
- NAVY Team saying

11. THANKS AND REMEMBER
• Emotional Intelligence
• Effective Communication
• Ripple intelligence
• Adapt Authentically
• Courage
• Team Player

12. REFERENCES
• Five shifts driving tomorrow’s leadership. (2015). World Economic
Forum. Retrieved from https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/03/five-shifts-
driving-tomorrows-leadership/
• The CEO Report. (2015). Heidrick & Struggles. Retrieved from
http://www.heidrick.com/~/media/Publications%20and%20Reports/The-
CEO-Report-v2.pdf
• Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and Practice (6th ed.).
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Microsoft Refreshed Core Competencies FY13