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Center for Health Leadership Competencies: University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health

Competency	Description
Analytical: skills to take action
Strategic thinking and problem solving	The ability to anticipate future developments and obstacles and translate them into opportunities in the present. The ability to understand a situation, issue, or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces. The ability to apply complex concepts, develop creative solutions, or adapt previous solutions in new ways to solve problems.
Initiative	An underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, or issues, including the desire for knowledge and staying current with one’s professional field. The ability to independently begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task.
Self-management: sense of self necessary to act and lead
Self-confidence	A belief and conviction in one’s own ability, success, and decisions or opinions when executing plans and projects or addressing challenges.
Self-development and awareness	The ability to see an accurate view of one’s own strengths and development needs, including one’s impact on others. A willingness to address needs through reflective, self-directed learning and to try new leadership approaches.
Professional integrity	The demonstration of ethics and professional practices as well as social accountability and community stewardship. The desire to act in a way that is consistent with one’s values and what one says is important. This definition includes demonstrating general leadership ethics, such as honesty and responsibility, as well as behaving in a culturally competent manner.
Interpersonal: skills to work with diverse constituents
Teamwork	The ability to develop and promote effective relationships with colleagues and team members, learn from others, seek diverse ideas and opinions to make decisions and draft plans, encourage team members to discuss concerns and conflicts openly rather than covering them up or overlooking them, and solve conflicts to everyone’s benefit.
Relationship building	The ability to establish, build, and sustain personal and professional relationships to build networks of people that can be mobilized to support projects and activities.
Interpersonal skills	The ability to treat others with respect, trust, and dignity; work well with others by being considerate of the needs and feelings of each individual; promote a productive culture by valuing individuals and their contributions; and accurately understand the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others.
Communication	The ability to convey information to and receive information from others effectively in a variety of formats. Essential components include attentive listening and clarity in writing and speaking. The ability to effectively present information using visual aids. Use traditional and new media, advanced technologies, and community networks to communicate.
Organizational awareness	The ability to understand and learn the formal and informal decision-making structures and power relationships within an organization or industry. This includes the ability to identify who the real decision makers are and the individuals who can influence them and to predict how new events will affect individuals and groups within the organization.
Strategic management: core management skills to do the work
Meeting facilitation	The ability to organize and lead a successful meeting, including identifying intended meeting outcomes, setting an agenda, facilitating the meeting to achieve meeting outcomes, gaining agreement on next steps, and documenting agreements made at the meeting.
Project management	The ability to plan, execute, monitor, and evaluate projects involving the deployment of multiple resources such as human resources, financial resources, and technology resources. The ability to successfully complete projects on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of all parties participating in the project.