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frequency with person 7 actively avoiding leadership behaviours. This analysis of the
participants suggests that the group should develop and exhibit leadership if given the
opportunity to do so.
Figure 1: Baseline Self-Assessment in Leadership Knowledge and Skills (McDaniel 2002)
Figure 2: Attitude Self-Assessment for Leadership (Smith & Wolverton 2010)
Figure 3: Behavioural Self-Assessment for Collaborative Leadership (Turning Point 2006)
The pre-intervention interviews provided insights into the perceptions of leadership by
engineering academics. The qualitative evidence does suggest alignment with previous
studies into the academic leadership at the management levels. There are strong themes in
the form of Nurture (Skills), Nature (Traits), Context (Environment) that straddle the
spaces of the Academic (Person) and University (Organization). The findings were that
almost all participants with the exception of one participant agree that leadership can be
Proceedings of Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011
Madrid, 4 th - 7 th October 2011