The thing about Leadership

Can leaders be trained? Is leadership a skill that can be taught? I think not..

Leadership can be nurtured, only if one has the potential.. i believe that leadership is in the blood of a person, how, when and where this source of great power comes from, nobody knows..

lets briefly define leadership, the skill of influencing people to achieve a set result or goal.. question is, does the subject then needs to be happy in the process? If my target as a leader is to produe 10 box of Product X in 10hrs, and i make my men work for 10hrs straight to achieve that target, am i a good leader? From a management point of view, yes.. from your men point of view.. they should well be cursing you and your entire family..

So, to me, leadership is the skill to influence and drive others into achieving goals and making them feel proud of it..

Question again, can this skill can taught then? I strongly believe that the answer is NO. all the leadership talks, training sessions and lectures are bullcrap.. do they really train leadership? the answer is no.. what they are training the participants is simply planning and people management skills..

Planning can be improved when one is exposed to templates, and past planning frameworks. Tick, planning training completed..

People management: yes, you can expose yourselves to the basics of human psychology and organisational behaviour, but does that make you the prefect "people's champion?"

Leadership comes in when one is able to combine good planning and excellent man management, a good leader is not define but age, gender, race nor education level.. a good leader makes other feels good and is able to achieve goals..

So the next time you are thinking about a leadership course or leadership camp.. come on, think about it..





Leadership, its in the blood