Technical Quotient
This is a measure of your functional expertise and experience, i.e., your relevance and credibility. Excellence in this quotient is often the reason why you are promoted into leadership positions to begin with. As you evolve as a leader, maintaining excellence in this quotient requires that you cultivate the following 3 intelligences.
Content Intelligence
How capable are you at the job content itself, e.g. finance, marketing, programming, engineering, statistics? |
Context Intelligence
How current is your understanding of the various trends and factors that influence the job content? |
Business Intelligence
How capable are you in aligning your department's strategy with the overall business strategy? |
Decision-Making Quotient
At the elite performance level, technical excellence is a given. It's one's ability to consistently make "good" decisions under a wide range of fast-changing situations that differentiates the excellent from the good. As you evolve as a leader, maintaining excellence in this quotient requires that you cultivate the following 3 intelligences.
Stress Intelligence
How disciplined are you in maintaining lifestyle habits that staves off / helps you recover fast from, burnout? |
Creativity Intelligence
How willing are you to step out of the box, break the rules, take a risk on the unknown, prove yourself wrong? |
Agility Intelligence
How persuadable are you to change directions in the face of new information, and how fast can you do it? |
Relational Quotient
This is a measure of your effectiveness in connecting with others during direct interactions (physical or virtual), i.e., it's about trust and confidence. Excellence in this quotient becomes more important if you have ambitions for more senior leadership positions. As you evolve as a leader, maintaining excellence in this quotient requires that you cultivate the following 3 intelligences.
Emotional Intelligence
How skilled are you in recognising and managing a wide range of emotions in yourself and others? |
Conflict Intelligence
How comfortable do you feel about respectfully having effective difficult conversations in a timely manner? |
Cultural Intelligence
How confident are you in your ability to navigate cultural (organisational, national, ethnic) differences at work? |
Presence Quotient
This is a measure of your "reputation", i.e., how do people commonly react when you walk into a room, regardless of whether they have a direct relationship with you. Excellence in this quotient is often a prerequisite for the higher echelons of leadership positions. As you evolve as a leader, maintaining excellence in this quotient requires that you cultivate the following 3 intelligences.
Attention Intelligence
How much details do you notice about a person, a situation, a room etc., at any given moment? |
Communication Intelligence
How resonant, precise, relatable, and consistent, are your messages across different communication channels? |
Integrity Intelligence
How consistent are you in aligning your actions / words / decisions with your own ethical orientation? |
Multiplier Quotient
This is a measure of your ability to create exponential organisational value beyond your immediate sphere of influence vis-a-vis strategy, operations, and people. Excellence in this quotient is often the hallmark of leaders with c-suite potential. As you evolve as a leader, maintaining excellence in this quotient requires that you cultivate the following 3 intelligences.
Collaboration Intelligence
How effective are you at identifying and cohering resources and talents to amplify collective intelligence? |
Delegation Intelligence
How often do you entrust tasks / decisions / responsibilities to others, and how varied is your circle of delegation? |
Complexity Intelligence
How spacious is your capacity to accommodate a diversity of perspectives so as to better identify critical success levers? |