Leadership LEAD
Guiding and influencing others, aligning actions with strategic objectives to drive positive change and team development.
SFIA 9 is in development
- SFIA 9 planned for publication October 2024
- This is subject to change before publication.
Guidance notes
Leadership in SFIA represents a progression from self-management to shaping organisational strategy. It involves:
- demonstrating personal responsibility
- taking ownership of work and development
- guiding and influencing others
- contributing to team capabilities
- aligning actions with organisational objectives
- inspiring and driving positive change.
Effective leadership encompasses self-awareness, influence, understanding and inspiring and motivating others. It also involves strategic thinking, risk management and the capacity to align actions with long-term objectives. As professionals advance, their leadership increasingly shapes organisational culture, drives innovation and enhances the organisation's ability to navigate complex challenges and act on opportunities.
Level 1 - Follow
- Proactively increases their understanding of their work tasks and responsibilities.
Level 2 - Assist
- Takes ownership to develop their work experience.
Level 3 - Apply
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Provides basic guidance and support to less experienced team members as needed.
Level 4 - Enable
- Leads, supports or guides team members.
- Develops solutions for complex work activities related to assignments.
- Demonstrates an understanding of risk factors in their work.
- Contributes specialist expertise to requirements definition in support of proposals.
Level 5 - Ensure, advise
- Provides leadership at an operational level.
- Implements and executes policies aligned to strategic plans.
- Assesses and evaluates risk.
- Takes all requirements into account when considering proposals.
Level 6 - Initiate, influence
- Provides leadership at an organisational level.
- Contributes to the development and implementation of policy and strategy.
- Understands and communicates industry developments, and the role and impact of technology.
- Manages and mitigates organisational risk.
- Balances the requirements of proposals with the broader needs of the organisation.
Level 7 - Set strategy, inspire, mobilise
- Leads strategic management.
- Applies the highest level of leadership to the formulation and implementation of strategy.
- Communicates the potential impact of emerging practices and technologies on organisations and individuals and assesses the risks of using or not using such practices and technologies.
- Establishes governance to address business risk.
- Ensures proposals align with the strategic direction of the organisation.