Your Leadership Challenge

· Clarify your instrumental and end values and recognize how values guide thoughts and behavior.

· Define attitudes and explain their relationship to leader behavior.

· Explain attributions and recognize how perception affects the leader–follower relationship.

· Recognize individual differences in cognitive style and broaden your own thinking style to expand leadership potential.

· Understand how to lead and work with people with varied personality traits.

· Recognize how mental models guide your behavior and relationships.

· Break out of categorized thinking patterns and open your mind to new ideas and multiple perspectives.

· Exercise emotional intelligence, including being self-aware, managing your emotions, motivating yourself, displaying empathy, and managing relationships.

· Apply the difference between motivating others based on fear and motivating others based on love.