Leadership & Management Skills Map

Our framework is underpinned by a skills map.

You can use the skills map to consider which skills apply to your role. You’ll find descriptors of each skill for each of the five leadership categories. If you’d like to develop a skill, you’ll find a range of development options available to you.

Supervising People

This category of leader is for you if you do not have formal line management responsibilities, although you have responsibility for managing the work of others. Your role might include allocating tasks, delegating or checking the quality of others’ work. Explore the development options that we think will best help you.

Managing People

This category is for you if you have formal line management responsibility. You might have one person or a team to manage. You’re responsible for agreeing goals, ensuring the work and behaviours of others is appropriate as well as motivating your team to deliver high performance and helping them to develop their careers. Explore the development options that we think will best help you in your role.

Leading Managers & Key Influencing Roles

This category is for you if either, or both, of the following apply:

1. You lead other people managers who operationalise your vision and strategy.

2. You may not formally line manage others, although your role requires you to deliver key strategic work through others.

For example, you may be responsible for ensuring departments are aware of how your work or processes impact them, or you need departments to know how to access your team’s support. Alternatively, your role may require you to have wide-reaching influence across the University. Explore the development options that we think will best help you in your role.

Senior Leaders

This category is for you if you are in a FA09 role with leadership responsibilities.

Explore the development options that we think will best help you in your role.

Leaders of the Organisation

This category is for you if you are a member of the Warwick Leaders’ Forum (WLF).

Encompassing a range of senior roles, leaders in this category have a responsibility to shape the future of the University and have the tools to successfully respond to complex and challenging landscapes in Higher Education. Explore the development options that we think will best help you in your role.