%0 Journal Article
%T The Leadership Exploration Project: Development and Analysis of a Leader Definition and Persuasive Presentation
%A Beth Polin
%J Management Teaching Review
%@ 2379-2981
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2379298118795434
%X Students are often frustrated and confused by the study of leadership since the field cannot offer an agreed-upon definition of the construct. Students are expected to develop leadership skills without understanding what leadership actually is. The Leadership Exploration Project is a multiweek exercise that gives late undergraduate or graduate students the opportunity to develop and appreciate their own leader definition through personal reflection grounded in academic- and practitioner-based research. To then exercise proper use of the term, students choose an autobiography or biography of a businessperson and evaluate that person against their leader definition. The project culminates in students arguing for whether their businessperson is a ¡°leader¡± through a persuasive Pecha Kucha presentation
%K leader
%K leadership
%K leader analysis
%K presentation
%K Pecha Kucha
%K autobiography
%K biography
%K undergraduate students
%K graduate students
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2379298118795434