I would suggest that you track down some research done at Motorola several
years ago. They 'tested' their own leadership development methods to find
what was, in the experience of participants, the most effective method of
learning or 'embedding leadership attributes' as you call it. You should be
able
to find this research under the output of Motorola University - it was done in
the 1980's I think. If you cannot find the original then I can summarise
some of the findings.

I would also suggest that you need to make a decision about wwhether you
think leadership attributes are part of an individuals 'sensemaking' repertoire
or whether they are organisational responses to defined situations. If you
think that they are the former then trying to find out the sensemaking
repertoire would really point you in the direction of Rep Grid...if you think
that
they are the latter then I would think that there are other reserach mthods
that would work with the enquiry.

If you want to look at Sensemaking then examine the work of Karl Weick.

Paul Malyon


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