Leadership Journeys

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Leadership Journeys

• Stories and Maps

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Aims

• To develop a critical overview of leadership
  Management through
• Discussion of your perceptions of what leadership
  is and your experiences of leadership
• a critical appreciation of the role of leadership
  in organizations
• Recognize personal development needs as a leader

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The Leadership Journey

• Leadership maps
• Leadership journey
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• Personal map-making.
• Critique

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Developing Your Leadership Map

• Why is leadership is important to you personally?
• What questions about leadership would you hope to
  find answers for in this course?
• Are there theories about leadership that have
  influenced your thinking and/or actions?
• (Note the main ones)

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Platforms of Understanding

• A standard conceptual map of a body of knowledge.
• Paradigms Knowledge on which a map is based
• process of consensus forming that occurs around
  conceptual themes of interest to practitioners
  and researchers
• Metaphoric models
• Revealing important dilemmas

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Dilemmas

• Hard-to-resolve but important issues in theory
  and practice
• Logical dilemmas and action dilemmas
• Develop skills at identifying and dealing with
  logical and action dilemmas  

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The Skills of Personal Map-Making

• Reflection and critical thinking processes
• Finding dealing with dilemmas
• Why leaders all face dilemmas
• Developing Skills in Managing Dilemmas
• Examining a Single Map
• Integrating the Information from Several Maps

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Map Making History of Leadership

• Leader traits The Philosophers Stone of
  leadership studies
• The Founding Father Weber and charisma.
• Stogdill, The Handbook, and the Decline of Trait
  Theories
• From Traits to Skills from Leaders to Leadership
  
• Transformational leadership new territory and a
  new map
• The Leader as Provider of Meaning
• On The Border Of The Established Maps

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Your Leadership Map

• What do you think are your personal leadership
  strengths and weaknesses?
•  Which are the leaders you most admire? Why?
•  What sort of leadership future would you wish
  for yourself ?

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Summary

• Preparation for a Leadership Journey through
• Leadership development
• Appreciation of earlier maps of leadership
• Map Reading Map Testing seeking dilemmas to
  support personal map-making
• Personal Map Making