For individuals: Building Leadership Competence offers a unique and straightforward approach for individuals to assess their leadership skills, develop personalized roadmaps for success, and access on-demand microlearning courses and other resources that get results. For Organizations: Building Leadership Competence can also serve as a valuable guide for seminars, workshops, and for organizational leaders to use with learn-at-lunch programs. Today, competency-based education is said to be the learning of the future. Why? Because organizations use competencies to figure out what employees are capable of and where they need to grow. After years of research and real-life experience we have assembled a comprehensive framework of 35 Competencies that are essential for success in virtually every industry, organization, and position. This book guides you through the competencies and gives you the tools you need to get from where you are to where you want to be. You start with our Leadership Competency Inventory. Based on your job, it shows you specific skills to tackle. Then each competency discussion teaches you what you must know to show employers that you are the person they want.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Wesley E. Donahue, PhD, MBA, PE, PMP, 6Ï­ Blackbelt (1950 to present). As a business owner, engineer, manager, and now an educator, I have always thought of myself as being in the business of helping other people succeed. But like you, at each step of the way I had to learn, and I had to put that learning into action. My latest book Building Leadership Competence A CompetencyBased Approach to Building Leadership Ability speaks from the voice of experience.Wesley E. Donahue, PhD, MBA, PE, PMP, 6Ï­ Blackbelt (1950 to present).

Reviews:

I don't normally write reviews and have came across several leadership books throughout my career. However, this Building Leadership Competence guide by Dr. Donahue is absolutely outstanding. It is easy to follow and provides you with the the knowledge, skills, and passion that you need to become a better leader. After reading this book by Dr. Donahue, I really feel that it would benefit anyone looking to become more effective, strategic, operationally focused, and technically competent. The book is undoubtedly a great resource to sharpen your leadership qualities to be the best that you can be! I will definitely recommend this book to colleagues and students looking to take on leadership opportunities. Highly recommended!
-Nikhil Juneja

I believe that a competency-based approach helps you establish a guideline to self-diagnosis about yourself, allowing you to concisely convey a sincere attempt to better understand your own strengths and weaknesses as an effective leader. This book provides clear display of the strengths and weaknesses you gain through leadership competencies list. This book also teaches you how you become effective leader based on the leadership competencies. If you want to be an effective leader, you really have to read this book.
-Jong Gyu Park

If you are an executive who strives to be within the elite or best-in-class in leadership, Wesley Donahue's book is an essential read for you. Executives leading in today's ever-changing and fast-paced environments must understand which competencies are essential to their success. Wes's book explains in great detail what these 35 competencies are and hot to master them. Absolutely, a great read!
-Patricia Macko