Instructor Resource
Rowe, Cases in Leadership 5e
SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019
Discussion Questions
Chapter 2: Leadership Trait Approach
1. What are the most important traits in a leader? Choose the top three.
2. Are leaders born or made?
This question is meant to uncover assumptions that students may have about nature or nurture.
One way to facilitate the discussion is to encourage one group of students to debate one side of
Preparation Questions
1. What leadership traits do you have? Have you always had those traits? How do you
plan to develop and grow those traits?
2. What leadership traits do you lack? Do you plan to acquire those traits or address
those weaknesses?