The Flow-Leadership Report that both FLIGBY & FLIGBY ReWhyr'd players receive after gameplay uses the FLIGBY 29 Key Leadership Competencies to score players on their decisions made during the game. Good skill combinations are helpful for creating and maintaining a Flow-promoting organizational culture.
FLIGBY 29 Key Leadership Competencies
1. Active Listening - Active Listening is a way of responding to another person that improves mutual understanding. This is a method of listening that involves understanding the content of a message as well as the intent of the sender and the circumstance under which the message is given.
2. Analytical Skill - Analytical skill is the readiness to visualize, articulate, and solve complex problems and concepts and make decisions that are sensible based on the available information.
3. Assertiveness - Assertiveness is the readiness to express your emotions and needs without violating the rights of others and without being aggressive.
4. Balancing Skill - Balancing skill is the awareness of both the on-the-job challenges and the skill levels of subordinates, and the actions taken to help achieve, for each key subordinate, a reasonable, dynamic balance between the challenges they face and their skill levels.
5. Engagement and Trust - Building engagement is the readiness to create trust and a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by dedication. Dedication refers to being strongly involved in one's work and experiencing a sense of significance, enthusiasm, and challenge.
6. Business-Oriented Thinking - Business-oriented thinking is the readiness to manage situations and solve problems in order to create added value to the company and in the end, create value for the shareholder/stakeholders.
7. Communication - Communication skills are the set of skills that enables a person to convey information so that it is received and understood. Communication skills refer to the repertoire of interpersonal behaviour.
8. Conflict-Management - Conflict-management is the practice of identifying and handling conflicts in a sensible, fair, and efficient manner.
9. Delegating - Delegating is the readiness to confer functions or powers on another person so they can act on behalf of the manager. Delegation empowers a subordinate to make decisions.
10. Diplomacy - Diplomacy is the readiness to take into account the varying interests and values of the other parties involved in the negotiation, treating those differences with respect and dealing with people in a tactful manner.
11. Emotional Intelligence - Emotional intelligence is the capacity and readiness to understand, express and regulate emotions in oneself and in others.
12. Empowerment - Empowerment is a skill of sharing information, rewards, and power with employees so that they can take initiative and make decisions to solve problems and improve service and performance.
13. Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship is a capacity and willingness to undertake conception, organization, and management of a productive venture with all attendant risks, while seeking profit as a reward.
14. Execution - Execution is the act of performing, the completion of managerial tasks and the readiness of doing something successfully.
15. Feedback - Feedback is information to employees regarding their performance that they can also act on. Feedback must be shared as immediately as possible, and in a manner that is understandable and perceived by them as being provided in a highly respectful manner.
16. Future Orientation - Future orientation is the readiness to think in the long term. This is the skill of "forward looking".
17. Information Gathering - Information gathering is the readiness to collect adequate information to perform the next step based on this information.
18. Intuitive Thinking - Intuitive thinking is a way of thinking that does not use rational processes such as facts and data. It is unforced, nonlinear, sees many things at once, views the big picture and contains perspective.
19. Involvement - Involvement is the readiness to participate in the activities of formal or informal teams/groups, all the way to the execution process.
20. Motivation - Motivational skills are those that enable a person to become motivated and work toward achieving goals.
21. Organizing - Organizing is the ability to initiate, arrange and manage several elements into purposeful structure.
22. Prioritizing - Prioritization is the ability to evaluate a group of items and rank them in their order of importance or urgency.
23. Time-Pressured Decisions - Decision-making under time pressure is an ability that enables effective decision-making when limited time and inadequate information is available.
24. Personal Strengths - Recognizing and applying personal strengths is the readiness to discover and to put to good use those personal strengths of others that are not immediately obvious.
25. Social Dynamics - An awareness of the complexity of many situations and the social dynamics that govern them.
26. Stakeholder Management - Stakeholder management is the ability to manage the business process, often involving trade-offs, so as to have a positive impact on the organizations' stakeholders, including that of society at large.
27. Strategic Thinking - Strategic thinking helps managers to set goals to determine priorities, to review policy issues, and to perform long term planning. Within a Flow context, it also entails the effective communication of the mission and goals of the organization, with a clear explanation of why and how the tasks of subordinates and colleagues are concrete steps toward achieving the mission and the goals of the organization and/or the unit.
28. Teamwork Management - Teamwork management is systematic to form, facilitate and monitor teamwork and teams.
29. Time Management - Time management is systematic, priority-based structuring of time allocation and distribution among competing demands.