Motivational Preconditions of Specialist Leadership Development in the Process of Training

Abstract

The article focuses on the issue of motivational preconditions of leadership development in the process of professional training. The article presents theoretical and empirical results of the study of professional motives formation peculiarities that influence optimization of students’ leadership qualities in the conditions of an educational process and discusses innovative motivational and leadership approaches to become a professional. The authors made emphasis on the fact that the activity is multimotivated and encouraged by a group of conscious and unconscious motives. In the empirical study, the authors found that leadership is determined by certain motivational prerequisites, which, in particular, combine the need for success, recognition, respect, and power. Motivation for success is formed on their basis, in the process of professional training. Future specialists are optimized for leadership potential as evidenced by their level of communicational and organizational skills development. It was substantiated that educational training projects for students should be included in the educational process. Also, the stages of professional motivation formation were determined.