Central leadership tasks
Strategy development
- Defining core competencies
- Vision development
- Effectuating a positioning decision and establishing it as an organisational cornerstone
- Setting objectives and building a sustainable commitment
- Mission statement development
- Establishing links between strategy development and operative planning
People management
- Needs assessment
- Appointment and selection decisions
- Performance reviews and target agreements
- Staff development
- Knowledge management
- Determining salary/compensation
- Redundancy decisions
- Motivation
Controlling
- Monitoring strategy implementation
- Key performance indicators
- Target-actual comparison
- Soft factors (work climate, company culture)
Marketing
- Generating high external visibility
- Analysing competition
- Benchmarking
- Creating a clear positioning
- Corporate design & PR
- Science communication
- Stakeholder dialogue
Resource management
- Financing arrangements (third-party funds, own budgetary resources)
- Capital investment needs
- Budget planning
- Resource deployment
- Cost management
Organisational development
- Information flow design
- Decision-making processes
- Suitable governance structures
- Sustainable organisational structures
- Change management
- Process management
Leadership
- Focused guidance and direction of social situations within the organisation’s overall structure
- Effectuating the necessary decisions
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