Leadership Development: Leveraging Leader Competence Models in National Statistics Organizations

Leadership Development: Leveraging Leader Competence Models in National Statistics Organizations

Norah Madaya | 2019

Abstract

Leadership development is imperative in the odyssey of delivering quality statistics and can be a critical impediment to innovation and technological agility. Most National Statistics Offices (NSO) in developing countries minimally utilize competence related data for leader development. More dependence is inclined to traditional performance appraisals, supervisor ratings and individual achievements, and less on competencies that drive organizational productivity and improvement. Leadership competencies are an indispensable ingredient in the increasingly changing socio-economic, uncertain, competitive and technologically advanced global society. Agile competent leaders and enduring strategies are vital in NSOs for negotiation and sustainability of smart partnerships, resource mobilization and engineering statistical system coordination to drive transformation in the data ecosystem. Interconnections between leadership and organizational culture define the relevant competence model for any NSO to address internal and external challenges including how to satisfy user needs. The project draws from the Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda Public Service competence tools, a Leader Competence Model (LCM) prototype that may guide leadership competence development and position the NSO to address the changing global initiatives. The NSO LCM prototype underscores six key leadership capabilities namely: strategy; knowledge; people management; communication; innovation and integrity, supported by the 360-degree feedback modality to steer competitive statistics organizations.