Need to add leadership competencies to your manager's skills?

Many organizations are struggling with the transition into a global economy, forcing them to flatten their management hierarchy. As a result, today's managers are faced with increased responsibilities as they take on the traditional competencies utilized by a manager, while also learning and applying new leadership skills.

This new business environment has produced more virtual and diverse teams. Overseeing a culturally and geographically diverse team requires today's managers to be extremely flexible, often requiring them to adapt to the changing management landscape quickly. Decision-making, being assertive with ideas, communicating more clearly, clarifying goals and objectives, while inspiring creative commitment are all competencies that have increased in today's management role.

In recognizing this challenge we've created an instrument that literally merges the concepts of management and leadership roles. For over 3 decades we've had both front-line management and senior leadership asessments, but not until we combined these concepts under one assessment were we truly able to offer our clients a hybrid instrument, effectively measuring both skill sets. This mid-managment assessment was essentially an "up-leveling" of the traditional front-line tool. We added in such competencies as envisioning opportunity, risk-taking, clarifying objectives, and positioning these concepts in simple, everyday language.

Individual Perspective

Leadership Competencies for Managers - This survey uniquely combines leadership and management competencies to provide your managers with a competitive advantage in today's ever-changing business environment.

Organizational Perspective

Group Report For Planning Training & Development - A group feedback report(aka composite or aggregate report) can be utilized to identify how the group's skills rated compared to the organization as whole, or to TBC's international norms. Results can clearly highlight the particular areas that a group might need training in helping provide the foundational knowledge necessary to build targeted leadership/management development curriculum.

Click here to see an example of a matrix from a group report.

The Flip Side
The reverse of this challenge is often times a problem within smaller to mid-sized companies that find themselves growing quickly. Their leaders are promoted through the ranks so fast that they are not able to acquire the management skills necessary for their role. The Leadership Competencies for Managers (LCM) is an instrument than can help solve this challenge.

Having a dozen role-specific assessments at our disposal, we've had a long standing philosophy that one size does not fit all when it comes to measuring unique roles. With that said, if we had to choose one instrument that tackles the "one size fits all" mentality then LCM would be it.