Publications
Publications
- 2005
- Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion
Learning for Leadership: The 'Engineering' and 'Clinical' Approaches
Abstract
Meaningful leadership development requires a deeper and more fundamental approach than is usually deployed in university classrooms and corporate training centers. It needs to incorporate difficult emotions and unconscious forces, and provide a safe place for their investigation and integration. Whilst the typical "engineering" approach has a valuable contribution to make in leadership development, it is limited by the heavy reliance placed on a rational and cognitive view. In contrast, a "clinical" approach emphasizes working with the individual's existing natural patterns of behaviour, with the aim of understanding and managing the multiple forces that motivate individual and collective behavior. A real-life example from a leadership program highlights the substantially different approaches and the different results that can be produced depending on the method employed.
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Citation
Petriglieri, Gianpiero, and Jack D. Wood. "Learning for Leadership: The 'Engineering' and 'Clinical' Approaches." In Mastering Executive Education: How to Combine Content with Context and Emotion, edited by Paul J. Strebel and Tracy Keys, 140–154. London: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005.