Being a Leader v.01

A provocation for students of leadership to help us critically consider the concept of leadership and how realistic it is to enact.

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1. Being in general

1.1. Quotes about 'being a leader' from students

1.1.1. ‘busyness and staff sickness’

1.1.2. toxic educator

1.1.3. autocrat vs laissez-faire

1.1.4. a 'turn of phrase'

1.1.5. If you cant show empathy & compassion i dont think you can truly lead...

1.2. Martin Heidegger

1.3. Evidence/Scholarship

1.3.1. Scholarly values

1.3.2. Levels of argument

1.4. Being arrested by Aristotle on Faro Beach

1.4.1. Rhetoric

1.5. Trying to 'do the right thing'

1.5.1. How do you make the 'right thing' happen?

1.5.1.1. What are you for? To serve or be served?

1.5.2. Should you influence people?

1.5.3. How do you influence people?

1.5.3.1. Manipulation?

1.5.3.1.1. Milgram Trials

1.5.3.1.2. EQ?

1.5.3.2. Motivation?

1.5.3.2.1. Intrinsic/Extrinsic

1.5.3.2.2. Hygiene factors

1.5.3.2.3. Maslow's Hierarchy

1.5.3.2.4. exploitation or emancipation?

1.5.3.3. Authentic Leadership (?)

1.5.3.4. Ethical leadership?

1.5.3.5. Transformational Leadership(?)

1.5.3.5.1. Transform defined

1.6. Critique from Disposition

1.6.1. Born or made...? debate notes in Boerma et al. 2017

1.6.1.1. Greatness

1.6.2. Yemm's Leadership Qualities

1.6.3. Levels of the self

1.6.3.1. What 'level' is amenable to change?

1.6.3.2. The Self

1.6.3.2.1. Governing disposition

1.6.3.2.2. Faculties

1.6.3.2.3. Facilities

1.6.3.3. What changes?

1.6.3.3.1. Skills

1.6.3.3.2. Values

1.6.3.3.3. Identity

1.6.3.3.4. Language

1.6.3.3.5. Knowledge... What kind of Knowledge is 'leadership'

1.6.3.3.6. Capabilities

2. Becoming a leader

2.1. Exactly when are you a leader?

2.1.1. What makes you what kind of leader right now?

2.1.2. When were you a leader today/last week/month?

2.2. Who has transitioned from being an expert to being a leader?

2.3. What can we do to others or ourselves that effects this kind of change?

2.3.1. Liminal moments

2.4. Maurer & London 2015 Role Identity Shift Framework

2.4.1. Leader derailment

2.4.2. Definite role for the organisation

2.4.2.1. Incentivise

2.4.2.2. Promote

2.4.3. Identicide / creative destruction?

2.4.3.1. Motivations and competence

2.4.4. Is there a conflict between driving innovation and leadership (role identity)?

2.5. How do you 'become' the leader?

2.5.1. Ford et al 2017

2.5.1.1. embodied leadership

2.5.2. Ladkin 2013

3. Ways of being a leader

3.1. TA

3.2. How do you become better at...

3.2.1. Charisma

3.2.2. Listening

3.2.2.1. The Babble Hypothesis!

3.2.3. Assertiveness

3.2.3.1. Body language

3.2.3.1.1. Posture

3.2.4. Dealing with difficult people

3.2.5. Professionalism

3.2.5.1. Sound like a leader?

3.2.5.1.1. Beware the Mehrabian Myth

3.2.6. EQ

3.2.6.1. Proxemics

3.2.7. Yemm's Leadership Qualities

3.2.7.1. Integrity

3.2.7.2. Positive

3.2.7.3. Determined

3.2.7.4. Sincere

3.2.7.5. Sensitive

3.2.7.6. Toughness

3.2.7.7. Humility

3.2.7.8. Warmth

3.2.7.9. Communication

3.2.7.10. Developer

3.3. leader vs manager false dichotomy - Mintzberg advocates communityship