Leadership competencies are the skills of a leader that contribute to superior performance. By developing leadership competencies, organisation can better identify and develop their next generation of leaders. Leadership competencies can be developed by mastering multiple intelligences which are essential to all leaders. In this paper the multiple intelligences is focusses on social intelligence, emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence, interpersonal intelligence and intrapersonal intelligence. The study is significant to an individual who is a leader of an organization or anyone for improving the leadership skills by mastering multiple intelligences It will also give feedback to the top management of the organisation the extent of their awareness of the impacts of leadership competencies towards the organisational performance.
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