Among the important factors that play a significant role in leadership development,

which one is the most important for religious leaders?

The following are the most important roles in Authentic leadership

leadership development
• Experience: leaders previous work history • is more intrapersonal by its nature
• requires positive modeling
• Skill: such as planning and implementation, • Enhance engagement
problem solving skills • Important to influence followers

• Personality: conscientiousness Religious leader should:

• Self-development: facilitated by work orientation, • Heal the sick
• Fix the broken
mastery orientation, and career growth • Make all things go away
• Social mechanisms: mutual trust and respect • There should be ongoing regard with his followers
• Being direct
• Authentic leadership: it is the most important role • Being specific
• Being non attributive (Kegan and Lahey, pp. 45-65)
for religious leaders

• Leadership development represents a dynamic process involving multiply interventions that persist overtime. (Hickman, p. 616)
• Authentic leadership: involves ongoing process whereby leaders and followers gain self-awareness and establish open, transparent, trusting
and genuine relationships, which in part may be shaped and impacted by planned interventions such as training. (Hickman, p. 628)
• Work Orientation (e.g., job involvement, and organizational commitment); Mastery Orientation ( greater self-efficiency, conscientiousness,
openness to experience , and intellectual maturity); and career-growth Orientation (greater career exploration and feedback seeking
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behaviors) . (Hickman, p. 627)