Instructions: Your task for this activity is to build an ideal leader. Following are sets of personality traits, emotional dispositions/sociocognitive traits, motivations, skills, knowledge, life experiences, and values that a leader may possess. Which are most important, though? You will choose 10 of these characteristics to use in building your leader. If you think of characteristics that aren’t in our “workshop”, then you may use others of your choice as well. Once you’ve established your list, rank these in terms of order of importance. Think through your reasons for including specific characteristics, as well as the reasons for your specific rank order. Submit a write-up a Word document that includes (a) your 1-10, ordered list of characteristics and (b) a a written explanation justifying these rankings.
Note that the characteristics reflect continuous traits or attributes. Thus, you’ll need to think through whether you want your leader to have weak, moderate, or strong tendencies toward each characteristic.
Personality traits: Openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, narcissism, authoritarianism
Emotional traits/sociocognitive traits: Perspective-taking, empathy, guilt-proneness, shame proneness
Motivational tendencies: Affiliation/need to belong, drive for power, need for achievement
Skills: Listening skills, public speaking skills, persuasion/influence skills, organizational skills
Knowledge: Technical knowledge in the relevant leadership domain, knowledge of human behavior
1Life experiences: Cross-cultural travel experiences, experience as a lower-level employee without managerial responsibilities, experience with major personal tragedy, parenting experience
Values: Power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation, self-direction, universalism, benevolence, tradition, conformity, security
1Note that experience in leadership positions is not included here because this is a relatively taken for granted characteristic that nearly all people would probably choose.
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