Leadership theory

Institute of Chartered Management – Chartered Management Skills

Chartered Manager candidates need to demonstrate (and provide evidence of) learning, development and impact in the workplace against two of these six categories.

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  Leading People
  
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  Meeting Customer Needs
  
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  Managing Change
  
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  Managing Information and Knowledge
  
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  Managing Activities and Resources
  
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  Managing yourself
  

For further information please visit:

http://www.managers.org.uk/institute/content_1.asp?category=3&id=37&id=30&id=14

6. IMF Management Competencies

As a first step in fostering effective managerial practices, the International Monetary Fund has defined a set of effective managerial behaviours, encapsulated in management competencies.

Management competencies comprise a set of critical knowledge, skills, and behaviors that lead to effective management practices. These management competencies are tools you, as a manager, can use to perform your supervisory functions. Effective performance of each competency is described by a series of behavioural benchmarks.

Below are the 15 different management competencies, grouped in 6 broad categories.

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  Intellectual Leadership Factor: Sound Judgment/Analytical Skills, Strategic Vision
  
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  Work Management Factor: Planning and Organizing, Drive for Results, Adaptability
  
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  Communication Factor: Oral Presentation Skills, Creating Open Communication, Written Communication Skills
  
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  Interpersonal Factor: Building Relationships, Negotiating and Influencing, Country/Client Relations
  
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  People Management Factor: Motivating Performance, Delegating, Fostering Teamwork, Appraising and Developing Staff
  

IMF Management competencies are used in a number of ways:

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  They are the starting point for developing managerial performance expectations. Competencies can help senior managers articulate the skills needed to be an effective manager--as distinct from those needed to be an effective economist or technical contributor.
  
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  Competencies are the basis for assessing potential managers in the Management Development Center.
  
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  Competencies are the basis for identifying training and development areas.
  
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  They form a common basis on which to assess managers within and across departments.
  

For more information read the report on “Leadership in International Organizations: Global Leadership Competencies” at: http://www.academy.umd.edu/publications/global_leadership/marlene_thorn.htm

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