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  • 1.  Leadership Assessment and Development Course

    Posted 04-22-2013 13:44

    Hi everyone:

     

    I am developing a course on leadership assessment and development and wondered if anyone has any suggested resources that they can recommend. The intent of the course is twofold - (1) assessment of leadership skills and their development in self and others (2) strategies for career development.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Ethlyn Williams

     

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    Ethlyn Williams, PhD
    Florida Atlantic University
    Department of Management Programs
    777 Glades Road
    Boca Raton, FL 33431
    Phone: 561-297-2357


  • 2.  Leadership Assessment and Development Course

    Posted 04-24-2013 10:18

    Hello Ethlyn, you could check out an Edward Elgar book, Self-management and leadership development, (Rothstein & Burke, Eds.)

     

    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [mailto:OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Ethlyn Williams
    Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:44 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Leadership Assessment and Development Course

     

    Hi everyone:

     

    I am developing a course on leadership assessment and development and wondered if anyone has any suggested resources that they can recommend. The intent of the course is twofold - (1) assessment of leadership skills and their development in self and others (2) strategies for career development.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Ethlyn Williams

     

    ****************************

    Ethlyn Williams, PhD

    Florida Atlantic University

    Department of Management Programs

    777 Glades Road

    Boca Raton, FL 33431

    Phone: 561-297-2357



  • 3.  Leadership Assessment and Development Course

    Posted 04-24-2013 10:48
    Hi Ethlyn,

    You might find my forthcoming (June, 2013) book, Effective Leadership, useful. Here is the link that will let you order your review copy:



    The book gives considerable attention to leadership assessment and development. Every chapter has a self-assessment for students on the textbook website. The first chapter focus on leadership development and mentoring. In addition, the free online course pack, The Leader's Bookcase, also includes a great chapter by David Day on leadership development. The textbook has three chapters on personality traits to help with selection (see the chapter titles in my signature box), and a chapter on self-leadership. I also cover the work on leader skill development by Mike Mumford and his colleagues in the chapter on cognitive intelligence and complex task performance. Leader development and career development are themes that run throughout the book, and the chapters on authentic leadership and on identity theory in particular cover how people adopt their leadership role and develop their leadership identities.

    I know that in these tough economic times that many students have trouble affording textbooks, so I picked a publisher (SAGE) that prices its books fairly. The book is priced in the $51.00 to $60.00 price range (with free shipping) on the various websites (Barnes&Noble.com, Amazon.com, Sage). Given that it comes with a free online course pack and expensive layout feature (like photos of leaders covered in the cases) this is a great price for a comprehensive research based textbook.

    Take care,

    Ron

    Ronald H. Humphrey

    Professor, Department of Management

    Virginia Commonwealth University

    Effective Leadership: Theory, Cases, and Applications, by Ronald H. Humphrey (forthcoming June, 2013, SAGE Publications; ISBN 978-1-4129-6355-8). Chapters: PART I: INTRODUCTION/ 1. Introduction: Leaders Matter/ PART II: TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADERS/ 2. How Personality Traits Influence Leader Emergence and Performance/ 3. Cognitive Intelligence, Complex Task Performance, and Decision Making/ 4. How Emotional Intelligence, Skills, and Competencies Increase Leader Effectiveness/ PART III: ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP APPROACHES/ 5. The Behavioral Approach to Leadership; Women and Leadership/ 6. Situational and Path-Goal Models of Leadership/ 7. Leader-Member Exchange and One-On-One Relationships/ PART IV: HOW LEADERS MOTIVATE THEMSELVES AND OTHERS/ 8. The Importance of Affect and Emotions to Leadership/ 9. Self-Leadership, Empowerment, Shared/Distributed Leadership, and Teams/ 10. Authentic Leadership Theory, Positive Organizational Scholarship, and Servant Leadership/ 11. Identity Processes: Individual, Relational, Social, Organizational, and Cultural/ 12. Authority, Power, and Persuasion/ 13. Charisma, Rhetoric, and Impression Management/ 14. Transactional Leadership and Goal Setting/ 15. Transformational Leadership, Change, and Sensemaking Perspectives/ Concluding Thoughts: Footprints on the Sands of Time



    On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Ethlyn Williams <ewilliam@fau.edu> wrote:

    Hi everyone:

     

    I am developing a course on leadership assessment and development and wondered if anyone has any suggested resources that they can recommend. The intent of the course is twofold - (1) assessment of leadership skills and their development in self and others (2) strategies for career development.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Ethlyn Williams

     

    ****************************
    Ethlyn Williams, PhD
    Florida Atlantic University
    Department of Management Programs
    777 Glades Road
    Boca Raton, FL 33431