Emerging leadership skills include recognising and managing changing realities, being courageous and bold, and having strong ethics, honesty and integrity. USB Executive Development (USB-ED) has developed five criteria against which to assess future leaders. These criteria have been isolated as a result of extensive research in the areas of disruptive forces, predicting the future world of work and emerging leadership skills. It is according to these measures that the Rising Star criteria and selection process is structured:
Criteria
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Marks will also be allocated for management potential
Developing future leaders: criteria and selection overview:
Vision and Ability to Innovate |
Passion and Impact |
Responsible Engagement |
Agility in Uncertainty, Encompassing Digital Transformation |
Systems Thinking and Sense-making |
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Envisages a better future |
Inspires and motivates others through passionate and optimistic commitment |
Builds trust and credibility through integrity, transparency, humility and ethical responsibility |
Perseveres when circumstances are tough and bounces back from failure |
Augments skills and knowledge with spiritual, cultural, social and emotional intelligence |
Imagines and creates new products, solutions or ways of working |
Catalyses and enrols constructive involvement without formal authority or title |
Deeply values, respects and considers the interests and confidentiality of all other people |
Learns constantly and fosters team and organisational growth |
Steps back from activity to make sense of complex and changing circumstances |
Invites, encourages and embraces the ideas of others |
Sets and achieves clear and strategic professional and team goals |
Collaborates, engaging WITH others to solve problems and generate stakeholder value |
Steers others through disagreement and conflict, fostering understanding and encouraging learning |
Thinks systemically, understands the big picture and is aware of cause and effect |
Solves significant problems through innovation and design |
Leads in all directions, challenges others and enables their performance |
Works within the constraints of standards and norms to effect positive change |
Considers both risk and opportunity to enable clear and decisive action |
Shares and integrates information to support decision-making and improvement |
Challenges perspectives and constantly improves ways of working |
Consciously manages personal confidence, messaging and impact |
Fosters psychological safety to empower involvement, growth and autonomy |
Seeks perspective and involves others to navigate complexity, ambiguity and risk |
Considers global context and anticipates future opportunities and threats |
Takes initiative and is proactive and resourceful |
Focuses, prioritises and organises to optimise outcomes and results |
Crafts and leads external initiatives to promote positive impact, social prosperity and sustainability |
Actively explores, embraces and applies emerging technologies |
Understands the business system and improves process and information flow |
Engages technology to augment and enhance performance |
Contributes visibly and substantially to the execution of strategic objectives |
Contributes generously and meaningfully to team efforts, supporting the success of others |
Develops agile practices and adapts to change and uncertainty, stabilised by values and goals |
Embraces experiences which change perspective and deepen insight |
Is intrapreneurial and creates an experimental and innovative environment |
Delivers on expectations and promises, despite pressure and obstacles |
Shows empathy, supports wellbeing and facilitates problem-solving |
Proactively defines, crafts or leads responses to digital transformation |
Listens perceptively, thinking beyond the obvious and developing awareness and intuition |
Develops strong networks to inform and support customer-focused effectiveness |