What Is Wrong with Leadership Development and What Might Be Done about It?

Day, David V.; Liu, Zhengguang

doi:10.4324/9781315163604-13

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“…A recent review identified over 60 theories of leadership (Dinh et al., 2014) , and while the number of leadership theories continues to grow, theories of how to develop leadership are sorely lacking (Day and Liu, 2018). Many efforts to develop leadership fail to make any clear distinction between leader ship (relational processes) development and leader (individual person) development (Ardichvili et al., 2016; Day et al., 2014).…”

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Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme

Newstead¹,

Dawkins²,

Macklin³

et al. 2020

Leadership

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This article contributes to an emerging field of virtue-based leadership development scholarship by reporting on the first known empirical evaluation of The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme. This exploratory study seeks to understand if or how The Virtues Project might facilitate the development of good leaders. Our understanding of ‘good’ is informed by the notion of virtue and the philosophy of virtue ethics, and we adopt a critical realist evaluation framework to distil what about The Virtues Project works for whom in which contexts and why. Our study employs a longitudinal comparative case design composed of multiple in-depth interviews with nine leader participants and their colleagues over the duration of five months. Findings indicate that (a) The Virtues Project training was experienced as a trigger event that fostered leaders’ new understandings of what virtue is and how virtues inform behaviour, and (b) The Virtues Project training equipped leaders with language-based strategies to incorporate virtues into their leadership practices. In sum, participating leaders felt that The Virtues Project facilitated the development of their leadership by enabling them to understand and recognize the best in themselves and others (virtues) and to incorporate virtues into their leadership practices. Limitations and future research are discussed.

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Section: What’s Wrong With Leadership Development?mentioning

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Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme

Newstead¹,

Dawkins²,

Macklin³

et al. 2020

Leadership

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“…Lessons learned from industry leaders suggest that learning occurs through a combination of experiential, social, and formal learning activities (Johnson et al, 2018;McCall et al, 1988). social learning conducted by a coaching program, and 10% formal learning through training (Day & Liu, 2019;Johnson et al, 2018;Lombardo & Eichinger, 2017;McCall et al, 1988 (Day, 2010) successfully. Training programs can be beneficial; however, the effectiveness of the program is vital to measure.…”

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An Engaged Scholarship Approach to Create and Evaluate a Leadership Development Program for Students

Franzen¹

2020

Journal of Leadership Education

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Expectations continue to evolve in today's work environment. An innovative practice between university and industry partners has emerged as a response to these expectations. In this trend, programs prepare college students with essential skills before entering the workforce. One such partnership created a leadership development program for workforce preparation using proven best practices and theories. The 70-20-10 framework, developed by researchers and authors working with the Center for Creative Leadership, blends challenging experiences (70%), coaching/mentoring (20%), and formal training (10%) to strengthen participants' leadership acumen (Johnson et al., 2018, McCall et al., 1988). Kirkpatrick's four-level model of training evaluation was adopted to evaluate changes in reaction, learning, behavior, and results. This paper presents an engaged scholarship approach to create and evaluate a leadership development program committed to preparing the next generation.

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“…Second, a pattern language facilitates unambiguous communication about leadership interventions. Leadership development experts currently lack a shared language for describing interventions [19]. When a leadership intervention is validated -whether by a practitioner or an academic -dissemination of this knowledge will be more effective if a shared language is used to describe the intervention.…”

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“…Considerable effort in research and practice is devoted towards leadership development [38]. However, there appears to be scarce consistent, empirical evidence to support the link between content and conditions of leadership training [19,23]. In other words, it is difficult to ascribe clear and direct linkages between the leadership concepts taught and leadership behaviors practiced.…”

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LeadLets: Towards a Pattern Language for Leadership Development of Human and AI Agents

Vreede

Steele²,

Vreede

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have inspired businesses and researchers to identify new ways in which AI can improve our way of life. One such quest lies in giving AIs complex human capabilities -like leadership. We take the first step towards that goal and propose a pattern-based approach to leadership. We argue that leadership best practices are actually a series of mini interventions each of which results in a consistent and desired response from the followers. When codified, these repeatable interventions can serve as foundational blocks for AI algorithms. To this end, we introduce LeadLets: A pattern language that codifies named, scripted, and repeatable leadership techniques that have a predictable influence causing a purposeful effect on one or more individuals. We argue that a pattern-based approach such as LeadLets can create leadership templates that inform programing leadership behavior into AI artifacts and designing leaders development programs.

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What Is Wrong with Leadership Development and What Might Be Done about It?

Cited by 20 publications

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Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme

Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme

An Engaged Scholarship Approach to Create and Evaluate a Leadership Development Program for Students

LeadLets: Towards a Pattern Language for Leadership Development of Human and AI Agents

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