LEADERSHIP TRAINING
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Leadership in the workplace has become an important training issue for many organizations. Although professional managers have existed in the workplace for only a little more than a century, the last 25 years have seen an increase in emphasis not on building effective managers, but rather on building effective leaders. This emphasis on leadership is found not only at the highest levels of the organizations, where it might naturally be expected, but throughout the organization. Team leaders, group leaders, division leaders and other types of leaders have become nearly commonplace, and the term "manager" is viewed--in some organizations--as derogatory and old-fashioned. There is no dearth of training techniques that can be employed to help build leaders, and authors of successful leadership books lead seminars on how to put the ideas in those books into practice. This research considers various types of leadership training techniques, and evaluates those that are likely to succeed. Finally, a training module outline is presented for helping students develop their leadership skills.While many Americans believe that leaders are born, not made, or that circumstances may cause a particular individual to assume a leadership role that otherwise would escape him or her, many executives believe that leadership can be taught. In a recent study, 81 percent of chief information officers surveyed were of the opinion tha
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t without emotional intelligence, other critical leadership skills--strong communication skills and an ability to recognize strengths in oneself and others--will not produce an effective leader. At the same time, Basik believes that leadership can be taught so long as there is sufficient natural tendency toward leadership in the individual receiving the training (Doehman, 2003).
One of the most common forms of leadership training is that of the seminar. These one-time forums are typically conducted by professional trainers, and often by the authors of best selling leadership books. Stephen Covey, who wrote The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Peter Senge, who wrote The Fifth Discipline, and Daniel Goleman, who wrote Emotional Intelligence are just a few of the authors who command thousands of dollars to share their insights with managers. However, it is not clear that one-time seminars actually produce long-term results, or that the results could not be achieved by just reading their books or having a less expensive trainer lead the instruction (Ready & Conger, 2003).
EFFECTIVENESS OF LEADERSHIP TRAINING TECHNIQUES
Outdoor training techniques can be effective to the degree that they remove managers from the distract
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Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)
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