Why it’s important to know what’s in your management and leadership toolbox?

Here are the 8 Roles for Management and Leadership success. These are the 8 core roles you need to master as a high potential leader.

As a Manager and Leader, you need to be competent in the following roles:

So, what’s in your toolbox – let find out !

Management Roles

The four critical roles of a manager includes:

1. The Motivator Role

2. The Strategist Role

3. The Project Manager Role

4. The Performance Manager Role

The Motivator Role

In the Motivator role, you are expected to be task orientated and work focused and to have high interest, motivation, energy and personal drive.

In this role, you need to accept responsibility, complete assignments, and maintain high personal productivity.

This usually involves motivating team members to increase production and to accomplish stated goals.

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Motivating Others

2. Time Management Skills

3. Stress Management Techniques

The Strategist Role

In the Strategist role, you are expected to clarify expectations through processes, such as planning and goal setting.

In this role, you are expected to be a decisive initiator who defines problems, selects alternatives, establishes objectives.

You will also need to define roles and tasks, generates rules and policies, and gives instructions.

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Taking Initiative Methods

2. Goal Setting Techniques

3. Delegation Skills

The Project Manager Role

In the Project Manager role, you are expected to maintain the structure and flow of the system.

In this role, you are expected to be dependable and reliable.

Your behavioral traits include various forms of work facilitation such as scheduling, organizing, and coordinating staff efforts; crisis handling; and attending to technological, logistical and housekeeping issues

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Project Management Skills

2. Project Planning Methods

3. Project Control Techniques

The Performance Manager Role

In the Performance Manager role, you are expected to know what is going on in the unit.

In this role, you need to see if people are complying with rules, and to see if the unit is meeting its quotas.

The Performance Manager knows all the facts and details and is good at analysis.

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Performance Appraisal Skills

2. Benchmarking Techniques

3. Balanced Scorecard Methods

LEADERSHIP ROLES

The four critical roles of a leader includes:

1. The Team Leader Role

2. The Coach Role

3. The Innovator Role

4. The Networker Role

The Team Leader Role

In the Team Leader role, you are expected to foster collective effort, build cohesion and teamwork, and manage interpersonal conflict.

In this role, you need to be both people and process orientated.

Expected behaviours include intervening into interpersonal duties, using conflict resolution techniques, developing cohesion and morale, obtaining input and participation, and facilitating group problem solving.

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Team Building Skills

2. Problem Solving Techniques

3. Resolving Conflict Strategies

The Coach Role

In the Coach role, you are expected to be engaged in the development of people through a caring empathetic environment.

In this role, you are helpful, considerate, sensitive, approachable, open and fair. People are resources to be developed.

You help with skill building, provide training opportunities, and plans for their individual development

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Leadership Techniques

2. Managing People Skills

3. Staff Training Strategies

The Innovator Role

In the Innovator role, you are expected to facilitate adaptation and change.

In this role, you need to pay attention to the changing environment, identifies trends, conceptualises and projects needed changes, and tolerates uncertainty and risk.

You are expected to be creative, a clever dreamer who see the future, envision innovations, package them in inviting ways, and convince others that they are necessary and desirable.

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Identifying Trends

2. Creativity Techniques

3. Change Management Strategies

The Networker Role

In the Networker role, you are concerned with maintaining external legitimacy and obtaining external resources.

In this role, you are expected to be politically astute, persuasive, influential and powerful.

You negotiate, and to acquire resources; you market, act as liaison and spokesperson.

The three core competencies for this role include:

1. Power and Politics Strategies

2. Negotiation Techniques

3. Presentation Skills

TOOLBOX FOR HIGH POTENTIAL LEADERS

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