The Management Skills represent the experiences that the Executive Leaders have had during their career. These are grouped into eight main Skills, which are a product of our experience in searches for C-Level positions and have been consistently demanded by companies around the world.
The result of this study shows us that Management Skills differ from one region to another, probably influenced by the situation within each country.
However, in overall analysis, “Team Leadership” stands out as the skill with the highest score and the first place among the 407 evaluations. Next in importance are “Organization, Planning and Management”; “Crisis and Conflict Management” and, “Relationship Management within the Organization”.
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When analyzing geographic regions individually, the most outstanding Management Skills vary. In Brazil and in the Andean Region the Team Leadership Ability is the best evaluated. This is different for the other regions where this ability is always in the upper third of the average of the evaluations.
In Iberia, the main Management Skill is Business Understanding, a skill that requires knowing the environment and how it will impact the business. Team Leadership is also highlighted here. In the South Cone, Relationship Management within the Organization is the most recognized Management Skill, which is closely related to teamwork and the extension of business ties beyond the company.
In Mexico, Crisis and Conflict Management stand out as the most important, possibly due to the evolution of the executives within the country facing situations in a difficult environment. Team Leadership and Organization, Planning and Management also occupy a prominent place in Mexico.
It is very important to mention the great opportunity that seems to exist for the Leaders of Latin America around management skills like Innovation, Strategic Planning and Value Creation, which often appear as the least outstanding Management Skills.Our great challenge for the future is Innovation, especially because of its comparison with what happens in the rest of the world, where the issues related to Transformation are the most important in the organization’s agenda. When analyzing the results according to the current Roles of the interviewed Leaders, some Management Skills that came to focus included: Crisis Management, Value Creation and Relationship Management - highlighted primarily for Board Members; Team Leadership and Business Understanding for CEOs and Managing Directors.
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There is a great concentration of HIGH results around Team Leadership, Management and Organization, as opposed to the results of Innovation, Strategic Planning and Value Creation, which complement the previous concepts. It is possible to interpret that the executives’ contribution to their respective organizations have traditionally been greater in terms of team leadership, processes, organization and planning in general. These results are transversal to all industrial sectors and represent a great opportunity for the new generations of Executives.
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