List three competencies that the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems deems as important for leaders working with groups and organizations

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

(1) The capacity to maintain task and role boundaries in the face of positive or negative responses from others. (2) The courage to speak what is felt to be unspeakable in the particular work context as long as it relates to the task of the group at hand. (3) The ability to reflect on and express one’s internal experience rather than acting on it. (4) An understanding of how elements of one’s own identity and history affect one’s work as well as call forth particular fantasies and projections from others in the context of groups. (5) The ability to recognize that individuals “carry” or express some aspect of the experience of the group as a whole—for example, scapegoating and rescuing. (6) An understanding that the exercise of leadership and representation affects, and is affected by, group and intergroup dynamics. (7) An understanding of how group and organizational dynamics are reflections of the larger sociopolitical context.