Assess your level of competitiveness

Given the market pressure on both organizations and individuals, it may be useful to assess your competitiveness, considering that:

  • The competitiveness of managers could be regarded as the combination of their level of personal skills and of efficiency. The latter can be measured both in terms of their achievements within the organization and of their employability on the jobs market. Very competitive managers will face no difficulty when willing to change their employer, and may even get a promotion at the same time.
  • Organizational competitiveness results from an optimal combination between the company’s global competencies (in so far as decision-makers manage to mobilize the available human potential and skills) and the mitigation of costs. Though companies tend to put the stress on the rationalization of cost management, they also tend to not give enough care to the notion of global competencies, their mobilization and their translation into daily activities. This often results in considerable costs which, in turn, cause a drop in profitability. An inability to mobilize and direct the company’s global competencies puts the latter’s competitiveness at risk, thus threatening its sustainability.

Please note that the emphasis put on the “rationalization” and “optimization” of organizational structures can prove a source of systemic disorganization. The cost, in turn, can turn out to be enormous, as is always the case when human skills cannot express themselves anymore.

SELF-COACHING

This self-coaching sheet (exercises) offers you to assess not only your own individual competitiveness, but also the collective competitiveness of your team and organization.

These exercises are taken from chapter 9 of the book “Management by Coaching: Coping with Complexity in a Changing World”.

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