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Leadership Is Developed
Through Education and
Experience
Perceptual set
The tendency or bias to
perceive one thing and
not another
Factors That Affect a Perceptual
Set
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Feelings
Needs
Prior experience
Expectations
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Factors Affecting the Attribution
Process
• Fundamental attribution theory
• Selfserving bias
• Actor/observer difference
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Tendency to overestimate
the dispositional causes of
behavior and underestimate
the environmental causes
when others fail
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Selfserving
bias
Tendency to make external
attributions for one’s own
failures, yet make internal
attributions for one’s successes
The Role of Expectations In Social
Interaction
Person 1
1. Has expectations of other
person (I’ve heard she’s
nice)
3. Expectancy confirmed
(She does seem personable)
4. Initiates positive interaction
toward other person
6. Expectation further
strengthened
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Person 2
2. Behaves ambiguously (might
be seen as friendly)
5. Responds in a friendly manner
7. Self concept change? (It’s easy
for me to meet others)
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Anatomy Of a Learning Experience
• Transition
• Change
• A new challenge
• Stress
• Growth potential
• Discomfort
• Results of old
learning
• Repertoire of
learning skills
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• Plateau
• Comfort zone
• What I already know
how to do
• Combined effect of
drive, personality
• My “grain”
• Combined effect of
drive, personality and
experience
• Turning the corner
• Learning to learn
• Building a new
process
• Reaping the benefits
• Going against the grain
• Temporary drop in performance
• Meeting the challenge
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Techniques Used To Teach
Leadership Concepts
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Lecture
Individualized feedback
Case studies
Role playing
Simulations and games
Inbasket exercises
Leaderless group discussions
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