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Evolving Technical Leaders

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You can be the most brilliant mind in the room, but if no one listens to you, your expertise is worthless...

We understand the challenge technical leaders face in communicating their value across an organisation. We recognise how difficult it is to get non-technical stakeholders to appreciate the academic rigour behind technical arguments. And we know how frustrating the strife to influence others can be.

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of U.S. executives agreed that people skills are now more important than ever.

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Technical leaders are perceived to be 5–20% less effective than non-technical leaders.

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Men score +2 points higher in Technical and Professional Expertise.

Key Insights

Technical leaders—both male and female—are perceived as less effective than their non-technical counterparts in overall leadership ability.

While technical leaders excel in subject matter expertise, they lag significantly in the following competencies:

  • Leading People: inspiring and motivating, communicating powerfully, developing others, collaborating.
  • Leading Change: championing change, customer and external focus, developing strategic perspective.
  • Modelling Growth: innovating, establishing stretch goals, learning agility.

In technical roles, technical and professional acumen is rated as the most important leadership trait, whereas in non-technical roles, the ability to inspire and motivate ranks highest. This misalignment creates challenges—particularly for female technical leaders—whose leadership effectiveness is often judged against a different set of expectations.

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