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Management and Leadership Competencies at UF
What are they? Why should you care?
We’re pleased to introduce this new set of leadership and management competencies for UF. Based on interviews and focus groups of effective leaders and managers at UF, these competencies form a framework that describes the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed to be an excellent leader at UF.
As you look at the competency model (click here to view enlarged version), you will notice that the four quadrants—Inspire Trust, Create and Communicate Vision, Generate Alignment, and Unleash Talent—represent broad categories critical for leadership success. For the individual competencies, you’ll notice “power words” that convey the essence of the competency. Take a closer look at each competency’s definition and you’ll find behaviors that are associated with management and those behaviors associated with leadership. Our view is that it’s important to engage in both managerial and leadership behaviors in order to be truly effective. This competency model reinforces that idea.
Our goal in UF Training and Org. Development is to offer development opportunities where possible to help cultivate these competencies. Our new Advanced Leadership for Academics and Professionals program is based on these leadership competencies. We also are aligning our UF Academy: Emerging Leaders program and our Managing at UF: Supervisory Challenge curriculum with this model. Plus, we’re identifying other tools and resources to help you in your efforts to lead and manage well.
It’s a challenge to be an effective leader or manager—but it’s certainly possible. It’s also critical to the success of our institution, given the array of challenges the university currently faces.
We hope you find this model useful as you reflect upon your own successes and opportunities. We also hope that you will take advantage of the management and leadership development programs that will assist you in cultivating these competencies and your own leadership excellence. If we can be of assistance to you, please let us know.