An Experiential Exercise: Leadership Characteristics

Your instructor will lead the class in a discussion of leadership characteristics based on your lists. Students will call out what they identified, and your instructor will write down the traits. When all students have shared their lists, class discussion will focus on the following questions:

A. Which characteristics consistently appeared on students’lists?

B. Were these characteristics more trait oriented or behavior oriented?

C. In which situations were these characteristics useful?

D. What, if anything, does this exercise suggest about leadership attributes?