What does effective leadership require?
Leadership capability is more than a collection of individual skills. Explore the foundations, competencies, cross-cutting capabilities and areas of application that together support leadership for the common good.
Foundations
What grounds leadership?
Explore the Foundations
The Foundations are the underpinning principles and dispositions that shape why leadership is exercised and how leadership is practised.
Purpose
What gives leadership meaning and direction?
Values
What guides what matters and how we act?
Ethics
How do we determine what ought to be done?
Integrity
How do leadership intentions and actions remain aligned?
They are not isolated skills. They provide the grounding from which leadership capability is exercised across different situations, relationships and systems.
Master Competencies
What must leaders be capable of doing?
Explore the Master Competencies
The Master Competencies describe the core areas of capability through which leadership is exercised — from leading self and exercising judgement to enabling others, working collectively and leading across organisations and systems.
Leading Self
How do we exercise purposeful leadership of ourselves?
Thinking & Judgement
How do we understand situations and determine what ought to be done?
Communication & Dialogue
How do we create understanding through communication and exchange?
Relationships & Influence
How do we build relationships and work constructively with others?
Empowering & Enabling Others
How do we create the conditions for others to contribute and develop?
Collective Leadership
How do we mobilise leadership with and through others?
Organisational & Systems Leadership
How do we lead across organisations, systems and wider contexts?
Different leadership challenges require different combinations of thinking, communication, relationships, enabling, collective and systems capability.
Cross-Cutting Capabilities
What strengthens leadership across contexts?
Explore the Cross-Cutting Capabilities
Cross-Cutting Capabilities strengthen leadership across different roles, relationships, challenges and contexts. They operate across rather than within a single area of leadership practice.
Emotional Intelligence
How do we understand and work constructively with emotions?
Cultural Intelligence
How do we lead effectively across cultural difference?
Adaptability & Resilience
How do we respond, recover and adapt as circumstances change?
Learning & Reflection
How do we learn from experience and continually develop practice?
Leading in Uncertainty
How do we exercise leadership when certainty is unavailable?
They strengthen the exercise of leadership across different competencies, applications and changing contexts.
Application Domains
Where is leadership capability applied?
Explore the Application Domains
Application Domains identify important contexts in which leadership capability is translated into purposeful action, organisational capacity and public or social value.
Strategy & Foresight
How do we orient leadership towards the future?
Digital & AI Intelligence
How do we lead responsibly and effectively in a digital and AI-enabled world?
Projects, Programmes & Delivery
How do we translate intent into coordinated delivery and outcomes?
Resources & Stewardship
How do we use and steward resources responsibly?
Organisational Development & Change
How do we develop organisational capacity and enable change?
Governance & Public Value
How do we exercise responsible governance and create value beyond the organisation?
Leadership draws upon foundations, competencies and cross-cutting capabilities in response to particular organisational, professional and system challenges.
Leadership capability works as a system.
These areas are interconnected rather than isolated. Leadership challenges draw upon different combinations of foundations, competencies, cross-cutting capabilities and application domains.
