5 Core Leadership Competencies

• Self-knowledge: the ability to understand self in the context of organizational challenges, interpersonal demands and individual motivation.
• Interpersonal and communication effectiveness: the ability to translate strategic vision into compelling and motivating messages.
• Managing change: the ability to create, structure and effectively implement organizational change in a continuous manner.
• Risk taking and creativity: the ability to transform self and organization by moving outside the traditional and patterned ways of success.
• Strategic vision: the ability to connect broad social, economic and political changes to the strategic direction of institutions and organizations.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2003). Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.rwjf.org/reports/npreports/enfp.htm