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Leader Competency Domain: Provide Purpose

Leader Competency Domain: Provide Purpose

When people have a sense of purpose for the work that they do, they are more motivated and committed. You can provide purpose in the workplace by challenging people to be their best. Most people are looking to grow personally and professionally. You should challenge each person on your team to learn new skills. You should challenge the team to learn new collective skills together. You can also provide purpose by helping your team understand how their work supports the organization’s mission. When people have a sense of purpose at work, they are better able to overcome adversity, and then adapt and grow together because of that adversity.

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Provide Purpose Leader Tasks:

Task 1: Analyze individual purpose.

Task 2: Show genuine concern for people.

Task 3: Encourage individual learning.

Task 4: Delegate responsibility.

Task 5: Empower decision-making.

Task 6: Keep people focused on the mission.

Task 7: Be there when the going gets tough.

Provide Purpose Knowledge and Skills:

  • Know how to provide purpose.
  • Know the relationship between providing purpose and collective resilience.
  • Know what collective resilience is.
  • Know how to analyze individual purpose.
  • Know the relationship between purpose, motivation, and commitment.
  • Know the relationship between personal growth, professional growth, and purpose.
  • Know the relationship between organizational goals and purpose.
  • Know what purpose is.
  • Know what personal growth is.
  • Know what professional growth is.
  • Know how to show genuine concern for people.  
  • Know the relationship between showing genuine concern for people, purpose, motivation, and commitment.
  • Know what self-esteem is.
  • Know what coaching is.
  • Know how to encourage individual learning.
  • Know the relationship between encouraging individual learning, purpose, motivation, and commitment.
  • Know what a growth mindset is.
  • Know what a self-directed learner is.
  • Know what self-efficacy is.
  • Know how to delegate responsibility.
  • Know the relationship between delegating responsibility, purpose, motivation, and commitment.
  • Know what responsibility is.
  • Know how to empower decision-making.
  • Know the relationship between empowering decision-making, purpose, motivation, and commitment.
  • Know what empower means.
  • Know what decision-making is.
  • Know how to keep people focused on the mission.
  • Know the relationship between keeping people focused on the mission, purpose, motivation, and commitment.
  • Know what mission is.
  • Know how to be there when the going gets tough.
  • Know the relationship between being there when the going gets tough, purpose, motivation, and commitment.

Updated 03/31/2023