Module 7 of Leadership Skills for Non-Supervisors reviews four essential leadership competencies—developing others, accountability, strategic thinking, and agility and resilience—and introduces the Integrated Leadership Mindset. It outlines practical ways to apply these skills and highlights the impact they have on team performance and organizational alignment.
Key Insights
- Developing others builds trust and team capacity through activities like mentoring, peer coaching, and constructive feedback supported by communication and empathy.
- Demonstrating accountability by owning responsibilities and collaborating effectively boosts credibility and sets a positive example for peers.
- Practicing strategic thinking and resilience aligns individual efforts with agency goals and enables adaptability in changing environments, leading to stronger mission impact and confidence under pressure.
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Welcome back to Leadership Skills for Non-Supervisors. This is Module 7, Integrating the Skills. For this module, we want to review the four core skills that we've talked about and introduce the Integrated Leadership Mindset.
We're going to discuss how we can create an Integrated Leadership Mindset. Let's review the core skills. The first skill we talked about was developing others, which can be defined as supporting colleagues through activities such as peer coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback.
Some of the skills we use when developing others are communication, empathy, and self-awareness. When we invest time and energy in developing others, the outcomes include stronger trust, strengthened team capacity, and modeled leadership behavior. The second core skill we discussed was accountability, which involves supporting colleagues by taking ownership of your own responsibilities, delivering on expectations, accepting outcomes, and encouraging others to do the same.
Some of the activities that demonstrate accountability include understanding which accountability zone you are in, following the steps to increase accountability, and collaborating effectively with others. The outcomes of showing accountability are increased credibility and establishing a positive example for others. The third core skill was strategic thinking, which means seeing the big picture and aligning your daily work with agency goals.
Activities that demonstrate strategic thinking include understanding the agency’s mission and priorities, connecting your tasks to those priorities, and making decisions and setting priorities based on agency goals. The outcomes of strategic thinking are a stronger connection to the purpose of your work and an increased contribution to the mission. The final skill was agility and resilience, which can be defined as adapting to change and bouncing back from challenges.
Activities that demonstrate agility and resilience include adjusting to changes such as new policies, procedures, or tools without resistance, offering ideas proactively, and maintaining a solution-oriented mindset. The outcomes of agility and resilience are stronger confidence, steady performance under pressure, and increased adaptability.
