How to Build a Leadership Competency Model for a Mid-Sized Company

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A mid-sized company can build a leadership competency model that people actually use in five steps: start from a research-based framework, tailor a short list of competencies to your strategy, define observable behaviors for each broad leadership level, validate them with your own leaders and data, and embed them in your performance management, development, and succession processes together. Our position is that a company this size should validate a smaller model rather than buy a bigger one, because a model your leaders cannot describe from memory is a poster and not a tool.

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