Phronetic Intelligence in the Professions: Attending to the Art of Leadership in Administrative Preparation

• In Event: School Leadership Development: The Art of Leadership Development

Abstract

This study explores a skill-set essential to professional competence: the leader’s ability to synthesize relevant information/data in measured proportions so as to competently perform various leadership tasks. Building on Aristotle’s concept of phronesis, this skill-set is given the name ‘phronetic competence.’ Using data from faculty in two professional schools (education leadership and divinity), a conceptual description of this competence is offered and the extent to which it is addressed in the curriculum explored.

Author

• Bob L. Johnson, The University of Alabama