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Leadership Theory

Personality Trait

Trait : Distinguish personal characteristics or trends in persons behavior.

Personality : A combination of traits that classifies as individual behavior.

Particular tendencies to feel, think, and act in certain ways that can
be used to describe the personality.

Personality Traits may play an increasingly important role in a

leader behavior.

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Qualities that a leader should model every day

Focus Decisiveness
Confidence Empowerment
Transparency Positivity
Integrity Generosity
Inspiration Persistence
Passion Insightfulness
Innovation Communication
Patience Accountability
Authentic Empathy
Open-mindness Confidence

Qualities that a leader should model every day

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Qualities that a leader should model every day

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Five Factor (or) OCEAN Model of Personality

In 1936, researchers had identified over 18,000 trait-related

adjectives in a standard English Dictionary.

These were reliably categorized into five broad personality

dimensions.

These dimensions are referred to in personality literature as

Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality.

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Implications of the Five Factor or OCEAN Model

Many organizations use the Big Five Model of

Personality.
It has universal application.
Leaders need to know their personality type.
Best predictor of job performance is
conscientiousness dimension.

Personality Typology

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Psychological Preferences as a Personality Typology

Psychological Preferences as a Personality Typology

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Intelligence and Leadership

The Building Blocks of Skills

Skills/
Competencies

Easier to
Experience Change
Knowledge Practical Intelligence
Practical Intelligence

More
Intelligence Personality Values difficult to
Analytic intelligence
Traits and Interests Change
Synthetic abilities
Creative intelligence Preferences Motives/Goals

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Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

One of the most comprehensive and compelling theories of intelligence developed and
tested over the past 20 years

Implications of the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Average Intelligence Test Scores by Management Level based on 200 separate studies
Average Power Test scores (Raw)

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N= Supervisor First-line Manager Middle Manager Executive

1,042 2,785 3,929 3,038

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Cognitive Resources Theory

Focuses on stress as the enemy of rationality and creator of unfavorable conditions.
A leaders intelligence and experience influences his or her reaction to that stress.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

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Emotional Intelligence Competencies

The relationships between leaders emotions and their effect on teams and outcomes

Where did it come from

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Models of Emotional Intelligence

Ability Model Mayer, Salovey and Caruso
It defines the ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions to facilitate
thinking.

Mixed Model
Introduced by Daniel Goleman focuses on EI as a wide array of competencies and
skills that drive leadership performance.

Bar-On Model
Knowledge and abilities that enable people to cope with the effects of their work
environment.

Ability Model

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Mixed Model

Bar-On Model

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Emotional Intelligence Ability and Transformational Leadership

The relationships between leaders emotions and their effect on teams and outcomes

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Loss of Emotional Intelligence

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Lessons on Leadership from Ann Fudge

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