Leadership Competencies

How to lead

The What

  • To clarify direct

  • To build trust

  • To drive culture

  • To empower delivery

  • To develop people

The How

To clarify direction

  • Your team's long-term vision. The North Stars 🌟

  • Your team's Strategic Objectives and Key Results. OKRs 🎯

  • Your product value proposition 🎁

  • The mission and expectation 🤗

To build trust

  • With your manager and leadership team ☝️

  • With your peers: PMs, Support, Sales, etc 👈👉

  • With your direct reports and skips 👇

To drive culture

  • Via role modelling

  • Via growth mindset

  • Brave and challenge the status quo

To empower delivery

  • To empower the team not yourself

  • To empower the delivery with accountabilities

  • To focus on prioritisations

To develop people

  • Prioritise coaching

  • Provide feedback and be supportive

  • Be consistent and resilient

📜 Tips

Leadership is a lifelong journey

Enhance your self-awareness

Be empathy

Be humility. It's OK to say "I don't know".

What got you here won't get you there.

Drive alignment

Grow your influence

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