Leadership competencies

I find that leadership skills and competencies are sometimes over-complexified by people trying to sell a product.  The reality is that leadership comes down to one thing, practice.   Within that practice are two distinctions regarding leadership competencies.  First is that everyone is a leader, even if only of themselves.  Second, that there are no leadership competencies, only life competencies that leaders use.  Drawing a distinction between competency buckets solidifies the mistaken belief that humans make life easier by compartmentalizing work and personal, when it actually makes life harder.
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Humans have only one brain, one body, one self.  When a person tries to compartmentalize, they lose access to their wholeness or whole “ness.”  Ness being essence, soul, or spirit.  Compartmentalizing results in a decrease in possible actions in the moment because the actions can only be accessed from another compartment that is offline.  Emotions in the workplace are a common example.
 
The Life Competencies I use with clients:

• Being present in the moment
• Resilience (ability to get up when knocked down)
• Knowing their action patterns when under stress
• Self-compassion
• Laughter (at self and life)
• Communication
• Semper Gumby
• Acceptance (self, others, reality)

If you want to be a more effective leader, that's what you want to practice.