Personal Effectiveness of Leaders: Thinking and DoingThomas Bateman Thursday, April 23, 2009 Institute for Advanced Learning and Research As a leader, self-management is crucial. Thomas Bateman, Bank of America Professor and Management Area Coordinator in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, will lead an engaging discussion on self-management, including common mistakes or traps leaders allow themselves to fall into. He will highlight popular goals people pursue, the biases they may fall prey to, tips on managing stress appropriately, and guidelines for becoming both a better thinker and a more successful “doer.”
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Thomas Bateman is Bank of America Eminent Scholar at the University of Virginia McIntire School Of Commerce, specializing in organizational behavior. Bateman conducts research on leadership, motivation, decision making, personality, stress, and managerial goals. Current research projects include studies of how people pursue very long-term goals, proactive behavior by individuals in organizations, employee cynicism, and intrinsic motivation at work. He recently published a chapter about positive motivation for a new book addressing positive organization sciences, Positive Organizational Scholarship, and is currently working on the 9th edition of a textbook, Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World (McGraw-Hill/Irwin). For more information, see Lecture Resources.