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Leadership Cultivation. Organizations:. Retention. Psychology of Leadership March 2006. Sources: General Service Administration, Dept of the Army Historical Summary FY89, OMF, USMA Graduate File. Why are you here? . . . . today? . . . in Psychology of Leadership?
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Leadership Cultivation Organizations: Retention Psychology of Leadership March 2006 Sources: General Service Administration, Dept of the Army Historical Summary FY89, OMF, USMA Graduate File
Why are you here? . . . today? . . . in Psychology of Leadership? . . . at Harvard College? . . . on this planet?
The World Changed Now What? “The West Point Story” or What kind of leadershave we developed? and What kind of leaderswill we need?
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USMA Mission To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country; professional growth throughout a career as an officer in the United States Army; and a lifetime of selfless service to the Nation.
USMA Mission To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country; professional growth throughout a career as an officer in the United States Army; and a lifetime of selfless service to the Nation.
Development (Who you ARE) BE KNOW DO Education (What you KNOW) Training (What you DO) Planned Change: ? INSPIRE INSPIRE People
Even in War, Under the worst of conditions. . . People can be creative and have some fun!
Even in War, Under the worst of conditions. . . People can be creative and have some fun!
“The largest developmental impact was raising the positive beliefs of followers, instilling in them the conviction that they were better at a performance task than they thought.” (Avolio & Luthans, 2006) Gallup Leadership Institute Study: Meta-analysis of all leadership development intervention Studies published in the past 100 years.
Conventional Wisdom:self-awareness is a good thing; people who have a realistic assessment of their strengths and weaknesses outperform those whose assessments are inflated; in short, unrealistic self-confidence leads to a fall. (Buckingham, 2005)
Current Research:suggests that accurate self-awareness rarely drives performance, and that in many circumstances, it actively retards performance. Only self-assurance drives performance, even when this self-assurance turns out to be unrealistic. (Buckingham, 2005)
Your job is NOT to provide your people with a realistic picture of the limits of their strengths and the liabilities of their weaknesses—you’re a manager, not a therapist. Your job is to get them to perform. (Buckingham, 2005)
In short, the state of mind you should try to create in them is one where they have a fully realistic assessment of the difficulty of the challenge ahead of them, and, at the same time, an unrealistically optimistic belief in their ability to overcome it. (Buckingham, 2005)