Clutch Leader Skills to elevate your effectiveness.

Mastering the Art of Leadership Through Proven Skills

Leadership excellence is not about intentions—it's about impactful actions and measurable results. The Clutch Leader Scorecard is your strategic tool to assess and amplify your leadership skills across three critical capabilities: Culture, Strategy, and Execution. These 15 universally recognized leadership skills, further honed and tested, are the cornerstone of what makes leadership at Clutch distinctively effective.

Why Clutch Skills Matter for Leaders

Leadership at Clutch revolves around a set of battle-tested skills that are crucial for driving high performance and fostering an environment of growth and innovation. Each skill is meticulously evaluated during our Clutch Interview analysis, using our advanced Clutch LLM technology to provide a detailed score based on your execution of these skills.

Culture

  1. Build Real Relationships

    The leader has personal relationships and cares about others as humans

  2. Create Clear Roles

    The leader understands the work expected of them and the work expected of others

  3. Offer Unfiltered Opinions

    The leader creates an environment where colleagues feel safe to voice their opinions without holding back

  4. Make Decisions

    The leader drives robust discussions about the right topics and gets closure on decisions in a reasonable timeframe

  5. Provide Direct Feedback

    The leader provides clear, direct, and caring feedback to colleagues

Strategy

  1. Create Strategy

    The leader creates strategy and validates it when new information is available

  2. Set Clear Goals

    The leader has created specific goals to measure progress against the company strategy

  3. Collaborate

    The leader effectively collaborates and gets buy-in with cross-functional partners and is considered a reliable teammate

  4. Report with Data

    The leader has accurate and timely reporting to measure progress against goals

  5. Operationalize Strategy

    The leader has identified a clear, practical, and realistic approach to achieve their goals as part of the company strategy

Execution

  1. Commit to Decisions

    When the leader makes a decision, they stick with it instead of re-litigating or changing their mind

  2. Hold People Accountable

    The leader holds themselves and their colleagues accountable to their commitments

  3. Run Effective Meetings

    The leaders’ meetings are engaging, well-run, and address the most important topics

  4. Communicate

    The leader provides effective internal, upward, and downward communication

  5. Drive Operating Cadence

    The leader has a consistent and effective rhythm of internal meetings, reporting, and operational systems