Creating Leaders: A Pilot Pre/Post Evaluation of an Ontological/Phenomenological Model

Abstract

This pilot is a pre/post comparative assessment of a leadership course developed and delivered using an innovative, ontological/phenomenological model of education. Participants in the course delivered in Singapore in July of 2014 provided measures of the effectiveness of their leadership before and after the course, using a scale from 1 (least effective) to 10 (most effective). The difference in scores from pre- to post-course was the unit of measure. Of 167 participants, 72% provided pre- and post-course measures. Average scores forparticipants’ effectiveness as leaders in the domains of Relationships, Vocation, Avocation, and Self increased from pre- to post-course by 1.9, 1.86, 1.64, and 1.85 respectively (p < 0.0001). Future research of this innovative model of leadership education will include long-term follow-up.

Citation

Carney, N., Jensen, M., Ballarini, N., Echeverria, J., Nettleton, T., Stillwell, M. and Erhard, W. (2016), "Creating Leaders: A Pilot Pre/Post Evaluation of an Ontological/Phenomenological Model", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 50-56. https://doi.org/10.12806/V15/I4/R4