Wilfred H. Drath – författare

It specifies: (1) readiness factors (trait, state, environmental, and sociocultural); (2) developmental processes (experience, disequilibrium, equilibrium, construction, and potentiation); and (3) outcomes (competencies and taking action, meaning structures, developmental stages, and holding environments). These are illustrated with a case study.

A prevalent way of viewing leadership is as a process of social influence.In this report, the authors offer an alternative perspective: seeing leadershipas a process of social meaning-making. The practical and researchimplications of such a view are considered.

Although leadership development is widely acknowledged as important, our understanding of it is largely implicit. This has made programs that seek to promote it difficult to design and implement, and challenging to evaluate effectively. The model presented in this report specifies how programs can affect a key aspect of leadership development--the psychological development of the individual.