DIVERSITY

CONSCIOUSNESS
Leadership

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Learning Outcomes

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What is Leadership?

• Definition

• Key features

• Orpheus process

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What Leadership Skills are Most
Important Today?

Source: Center for Creative Leadership

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Diversity-Conscious Leadership

• Definition

• Diversity Conscious Leaders:

• Are competent thinkers and actors in a variety of worlds.

• Do not evaluate actions of others based on what they would do.

• Do not assume similarities or differences.

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Who Can Be a Diversity Conscious
Leader: Five Myths

• Diversity-conscious leaders are:

• Myth One: naturally “people persons”

• Myth Two: people who have an extremely rare ability

• Myth Three: intellectually brilliant

• Myth Four: charismatic extroverts

• Myth Five: able to persuade and control people in spite of their

differences

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Key Skills of a
Diversity Conscious Leader

• Adapting

• Thinking and Communicating Inclusively

• Assessing and Monitoring

• Self-monitoring

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Four Building Blocks of Diversity
Conscious Leadership

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Self-assessment
• Reflect on the self-assessment you completed in the text.
• In what area (awareness, understanding, skills,
commitment) do you need the most improvement?
• What is one specific thing you can do now to improve?

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Leadership Theories
• Trait and behavioral theories

• Instrumental leaders

• Expressive leaders

• Situational leadership theory - leadership styles

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

• Laissez-faire

• Assumptions underlying leadership theories

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 Leadership In A Cultural Context
• Hofstede’s dimension – Individualist vs. Collectivist

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 Leadership In A Cultural Context
• Hofstede’s dimension – Large vs. Small Power Distance 

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 Leadership In A Cultural Context
• Hofstede’s dimension – Strong vs. Weak Uncertainty Avoidance  

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Leadership In A Cultural Context
• Hofstede’s dimension –  Masculine vs. Feminine   

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Rank Your Cultural Preference

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The Diversity Conscious Leader
of the Future

Source: Center for Creative Leadership

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Leadership Development
• “Cookie-Cutter” methods

• Value of challenging experiences

• Cumulative process

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Case Studies
• Ligua

• Mary

• Michael

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