COMPETENCY #5: Model and Nurture Self-Development of Appropriate Leadership Skills

We have left the competencies that focus on departmental or organizational areas. Now we enter the land of individual focus. And if you notice, the focus is on YOU--it is YOU that is doing the modeling and nurturing in this competency.

So how would you rank yourself in this area? ARE you developing your own leadership skills -- or just resting on the laurels of what you learned in college, or in that leadership training by what's-his-name a few years ago, or what you saw your first supervisor do back in the day, or in that workshop they sent you to when you first became a manager... Uh-oh...

What's out there? Those of you that have been honing and developing your leadership skills in preparation to make the next step up the ladder--tell us what you've done, or are currently doing, to develop those appropriate leadership skills. 

Enquiring Trailblazing Middle Managers want to know!