New Water Policy and Practice Volume 1, Number 2 - Spring 2015 | Page 21

New Water Policy and Practice

Table 6: Key leader competencies and leadership strategies typically associated with the
strategic leader role
Leader Competencies

Leadership Strategies

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The ability to use transformational leadership
behaviours to build shared visions that are
clear and inspiring, inspire confidence, build
commitment, and influence people across
organisational boundaries.

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Creating space for change by allowing people to buy into
a vision rather than choosing to agree or disagree with a
new policy, using narratives to strategically frame issues
to justify change, and making it attractive with a )