7 How Social

Identities Affect
Leadership
8 Cultivating Groups
and Teams
 Assignment
HOUSEKEEPIN Leadership in Context Interview
Reflection
G ITEMS Due : March 16th (Thursday) @
11:59PM
Next week: MOVING FR
PERSONAL TO COLLECTIVE
Learning as a way of leading:
Lessons from the struggle for
social justice
Chapter 4 & 5
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Social Identity & Leadership
Why is appreciation for multiple stories important in leadership?
How do identities shape how individuals understand, experience, enact
leadership?
What are ways we can shift single narratives about social identities into
thinking about inclusive groups?

Groups & Teams

How do groups and teams function?
What is the importance of dialogue?
How do we build collaboration and common purpose?
RECAP: SOCIAL IDENTITIES
Agent/Dominant groups VS Target/Subordinate groups
Agent or Dominant groups:
considered the norm around which assumptions are built
Have relatively more social power
Can name others
Privileged at birthprovided access to options and opportunities
unconsciously
Within the context of U.S. society, which social identities would you say
fit into this category?
RECAP: SOCIAL IDENTITIES

What is the difference between an

AGENT/DOMINANT identity and a SALIENT
identity? Can there be similarities?
RECAP: SOCIAL IDENTITIES
AGENT/DOMINANT, SALIENT, but not
but not SALIENT AGENT/DOMINANT
WHY HAVE SOCIAL GROUPS?
Just a Social Construct
As a society, we place value on or devalue certain
types of identities

Categories dont have significance unless they are

situated within the context of systems of privilege and
oppression (for which they were created)
 JAMES BALDWIN
No one is white before he/she came to
America. . . It took generations and a vast
amount of coercion, before this became a
white country.
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THE CYCLE OF 1

SOCIALIZATIO 3

1.
N
Beginning
2. First Socialization
3. Institutional & Cultural
7
Socialization
4. Enforcements
5. Results
6. Actions
7. Core of the Cycle 6

8. Directions for Change 4

8
5
SOCIALIZATION OF OUR
IDENTITIES
Our social identities shape our socialization
We are taught how to be each of our social
identities
Whether target or agent social identities, we are
socialized into prescribed roles unconsciously and
without permission
We have been exposed to a strong set of rules,
roles, and assumptions that shape our sense of self
and the world around us.
HOW WERE YOU SOCIALIZED?
REFLECT ON ONE OF YOUR FIRST MEMORIES OF
SOCIALIZATION...

Choose one of your social identities. Write down at

least 10 examples of what you learned about being that
identity.
HOW WERE YOU SOCIALIZED?
Activity with a friend:
Find individuals who inventoried the same social
identity as you.
Were there any common themes?
How did you feel thinking about your first moments
of socialization?
BREAK
GROUP DEVELOPMENT STAGES
Forming Stage
Member recruitment
Team building initially occurs and trust is
established
Successful strategies
Understanding of the group
Getting to know each other
Building open, trusting relationships that value
inclusion
GROUP DEVELOPMENT STAGES
Storming Stage
Group starts to get in gear and differences of
opinion start to emerge
Group comes to a clear purpose of the group
Norming Stage
Establishes patterns of getting work done
Group sets up formal or informal procedures for
which things come to the whole group
Group members begin to understand the groups
culture
GROUP DEVELOPMENT STAGES
Performing Stage
The group now cycles into a mature stage of equilibrium
getting work done
Groups recycle through each of the stages; as new members
join (forming), new issues/challenges arise (storming), or use
a new process to accomplish a tasks (norming)
Adjourning Stage
Final stage of group development
Some members experience a sense of loss at this stage
There should be some form of celebration and
recognition of the groups accomplishments
 FISHBOWL
DIALOGUE
INTERTWINING SOCIAL IDENTITY INTO
HOW WE CULTIVATE GROUPS AND TEAMS
PICK 1 FR EACH; PAIR &
SHARE.
Social Identity & Leadership
Why is appreciation for multiple stories important in leadership?
How do identities shape how individuals understand, experience, enact
leadership?
What are ways we can shift single narratives about social identities into
thinking about inclusive groups?

Groups & Teams

How do groups and teams function?
What is the importance of dialogue?
How do we build collaboration and common purpose?
 CORNELL
WEST
We understand that justice is what love
looks like in public. So when you really
love people, you hate the fact that theyre
being treated unjustly, you loathe the fact
that theyre being treated unfairly and you
must do something; you must bear
witness.