Vad innebär det att utvecklas som ledare?

I en artikel av Wallace, Torres & Zaccaro (2021) argumenteras för att vi bättre behöver förstå det lärande som sker under ledar(-skaps)utveckling, bl. a. utvecklingen av mognad som ledare.

Mognad består av hur man tänker kring sig själv som ledare (“self conceptualization”) och hur man skapar mening av sig själv och omgivningen ur ett ledarskapsperspektiv.    

Ur artikeln:

“Lord and Hall (2005) identified three levels of leader self conceptualizations that emerge with increasing leadership expertise.

Novice leaders tend to adopt an individual leader self-concept, viewing themselves as occupying a special role, distinct from followers and other leaders.

Intermediate leaders come to endorse a relational leader self concept – they are leaders of others and understand their identity through the framework of their relationships with followers.

With further maturation, expert leaders come to see themselves as cogs in the wheel of the team – a person with certain roles that we call “leadership” – with or without formal distinctions – and their leader identity is as part of the collective (Day & Harrison, 2007; Lord & Hall, 2005).”

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