Building on AMA’s leadership research results and global leadership survey findings, leveraging our 10 years’ management training experience, and combining our learnings in the past three years through interviews with numerous Chinese senior executives, we developed the below leadership competence model for Chinese managers. We divide a leader’s role into 4 dimensions: business growth, operation excellence, people alignment, and competence development, and split each dimension into 3 aspects, with definitions and descriptions on the following pages.

We apply this model in implementing our “Organization Scan – Performance Analysis – Solution Design” training process. By ascertaining the performance gaps with the managers, we identify their competence gaps and design effective competence development solutions. Meanwhile, we hope this model can be a practical OD tool for the organizations for developing and retaining their key personnel and building their organization’s core competence.