Innatecompetency

Usually, the more senior positions you take, the more complex problems you intend to solve; the more complex professional capabilities are needed to deal with different circumstances.

In today’s business dynamic, organizational leaders and professionals should look ahead and be proactively looking for opportunities to improve; identify their professional capability gaps, compare your set of capabilities with competitors' to ensure that you are developing differentiated capabilities to gain unique business competency.

Creative competency: Creativity is a flow, an imagination, and connecting-dots association. It is a mental process which results in an action that generates fresh ideas or tests a possible solution. It takes a long-term endeavor to develop creative competency. Creative people leverage divergent, and convergent thought processes to ignite creativity. You need to have the level of curiosity, desire to learn, make deep observations, with the natural ability to maintain an open and inquisitive mind for seeing things from a different perspective, and apply multidimensional thinking techniques to creative problems-solving.

Communication competency: Almost all professions require a certain level of communication; communication is the bridge between thoughts and words. Business professionals, especially leaders, need to master what to communicate and how to communicate ideas, strategy, influence, practices, etc. Communication competency directly impacts the maturity level of differentiated professional capabilities. The authentic, candid, and strategic communication harnesses trust and encourages cooperation, especially at the strategic level. High-effective communication is the lubricant to collaborative problem-solving by increasing awareness of what you intend to communicate, and how to communicate effectively to fit a different audience. Corporate leaders can communicate strategically, be fluent with multiple business dialects, understand cross-disciplinary issues from broader perspectives in order to solve them smoothly.

Changeability: Change is part of reality, with increasing speed. People’s intelligence is tested by their changeability, and their quality is also proved via their changeability. Changeability gives you confidence because you know you are able to adapt to any given situation accepting, embracing, and leading changes smoothly. There are quite a few crucial ingredients in changeability: learning agility for keeping knowledge updated, adaptability to the setting environment: motivation to take proper actions, agility to not only adapt, but also create momentum to change; resilience to fail fast and fail forward, etc. In order to expedite change, it is crucial to build the dynamic changeability via integrating existing building blocks of professional capabilities; or integrating those existing capabilities into high level professional competency.

Business world has become over-complex; every professional has their own journey of growing professionally based on their own cognitive perceptions, talent, experience, training, and refinement to develop unique competency. Usually, the more senior positions you take, the more complex problems you intend to solve; the more complex professional capabilities are needed to deal with different circumstances. The capability maturity assessment is based on the scale and scope of problems you can solve, the tangible performance results you can produce and and the degree of impact you can make on your surroundings, organizations, or our society.

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