Ideas of Performance in Leadership Development Programmes: Towards a New Resolution of Some Old Problems?

Edward Peck and Helen Dickinson
Additional contact information
Edward Peck: University of Birmingham
Helen Dickinson: University of Birmingham

Chapter 9 in Performing Leadership, 2009, pp 157-174 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1992, Conger published his survey — partly based on his personal experience — of a sample of leadership development programmes then common in the US. He approached the task with a reasonable degree of scepticism noting, after a prolonged exploration of the born/made debate, that: “the development of leadership is a very complex process” (p. 33) ... “[I]f experience is such an important teacher, and the motivation to lead is so rooted in one’s past, and the leadership skills are indeed so complex and related to one’s work and past, what role can training hope to play?” (p. 34). This distinction between experience and skills (and also knowledge) underpins Grint’s (2007) Aristotelian analysis of how leaders may learn to lead so that programmes do not “confuse and conflate knowledge, skills and wisdom . all three are necessary and mutually supportive: knowledge can be taught in lectures but skills must be honed through practice while wisdom can only be secured by experiencing leadership itself” (p. 242). Together they represent a significant challenge to practitioners of leadership development which is as pertinent to our leadership framework as any other (and perhaps more so given that it arose out of and was honed within our work with programme participants).

Keywords: Leadership Development; Good Leader; Emotional Tone; Leadership Development Programme; Performative Aspect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24617-1_9

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230246171

DOI: 10.1057/9780230246171_9

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().