Faculty Members Can Lead, but Will They?
Leadership is a teachable skill
Summary:
Leadership skills are teachable and learnable, but it takes courage to practice them.
High performers benefit more from leadership training than lower performers. However, incentivizing and wanting to learn leadership are crucial.
Some people prefer to remain great executors instead of becoming leaders, and both
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What does seem important is that they share in common (1) a curiosity about how to practice a quality of leadership education that can more adequately address systemic change on behalf of the common good, (2) an informed respect for the process of human growth and development, and (3) a willingness to take on a mode of working that challenges both
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So how many of these unicorns are out there? One of us (David), along with Tricia Naddaff, CEO of Management Research Group, analyzed data from thousands of employees in which people rated their bosses on goal focus and people focus. Less than 1% of leaders were rated high on both.