Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair Recent documents in Amanda Sinclair en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:24:34 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/5 http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/5 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:53:40 PST This article argues that leadership development is a process of seduction.Drawing on some stories of leadership development from my experience as participant, observer and teacher I show the ways in which certain sorts of highly valued leadership teaching contain seductive elements, including sweeping audiences off their feet and, in some contexts, forestalling critique about the content that is offered. The article also considers the extent to which seduction is a gendered performance. I conclude that, while gender and power are defining elements and constraints in how seductive pedagogical relations are constructed, there are opportunities for experimentation and display that potentially subvert gendered stereotypes. Seeing the seduction in leadership can help us understand leadership and leadership teaching better, and can open the way to doing it differently -- to experimentation and innovation. Amanda Sinclair http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/4 http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/4 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:35:08 PDT Mindfulness is a concept that originally comes from Buddhism but which is being incorporated into leadership and neuroleadership research. A lot of us, including leaders spend much of our time in reactive thinking. Mindfulness research tells us that having the capacity to step back from our thinking patterns and cultivate a less cluttered mind improves the quality of presence, attention and focus. Or in other words, learning how to think better and think less excessively and reactively may improve the quality of our leadership. This research explores ways to do this. Amanda Sinclair http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/3 http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/3 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:34:23 PDT This research investigates how a leader's physical body and its presentation in the media affects how they are viewed as a leader. It suggests that fully-covered bodies with minimal skin exposed presents a view that these leaders are physically invincible. In contrast bodies which have more skin exposed tend to present and be perceived as being flawed in leadership or more subject to the limitations of human fragility. Amanda Sinclair http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/2 http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/2 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:33:48 PDT The identity work of leadership is an approach in leadership education that draws on identity theories and aims to support leaders to explore influences such as backgrounds and childhoods on their current leadership style. It provides leaders with a perspective on their patterns of behaviour and helps them to experiment and innovate in doing leadership differently. Amanda Sinclair http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/1 http://works.bepress.com/amanda_sinclair/1 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:33:09 PDT This research takes a frank look at the teaching of leadership. It compares the author's positive and negative examples of teaching the same leadership material or curriculum and examines the various factors--teacher's role, institutional factors, student mindset, learning techniques and circumstances--that influenced the outcome. It also provides a detailed explanation of effective ways of teaching leadership experientially and from a critical perspective --what works and what doesn't. Amanda Sinclair