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Leadership Development: Insights from a Careers Perspective

Polly Parker

University of Queensland, Business School, Australia, p.parker{at}business.uq.edu.au

Brigid Carroll

University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand, b.carroll@ auckland.ac.nz

This article reports on an exploratory empirical investigation into the resonance between two developmental processes to see if any insights into leadership development could be gained from using a careers lens. Career and leadership development both share contemporary shifts in emphasis: leadership from hero to distributed models ,and career from objective to subjective explorations of progress and success. Twenty-two participants on a leadership development program used a career card sort which was then processed with a peer partner to support personal meaning making . A constructivist-orientated content analysis of the resultant peer dialogues revealed four themes: challenge, ownership, sponsorship and work—life balance, which showed different aspects of the nexus between leadership and career. This nexus is characterized by a resonance in thesense of echoing that suggests that a careers lens used by peer partners provides additional insight into leadership and leadership development.

Key Words: career development • leader development • leadership development • peer partnering

Leadership, Vol. 5, No. 2, 261-283 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1742715009102940
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