Leadership is a Skill
Everyone has leadership potential. opportunities for a leadership occur every day. The better prepared we are to meet leadership challenges, the more readily we develop skills in building our relationships with other people. Leaders who build, create, and encourage their colleagues have long-term success and are remembered long into the future.
How do leaders get to be leaders? A great many authors and speakers have tried to answer this question. There are several books, studies,and research reports to the subject, as well as editorials, articles and speeches. All of them have differences and similarities in their answers. Many have attempted to supply a magic formula as an answer to the question of leadership. To date, none of the formulas given is complete, none of them meets all conditions, and none of them has succeeded in doing what they all have aimed to do. Many of these attempted responses argued that certain personal characteristics give rise to leadership, such as: moral beliefs, spirituality, strong character and winning personality.
A typical young leader, studies show, is a person that exceeds the other members of his group in sociability, initiative, persistence, knowledge of how to get things done, self-confidence, alertness to and insight into situations, cooperation, popularity, adaptability,and verbal capacity. The secret of success of young leaders today is the combination of their leadership and verbal skills. Quantity/quality of speech must be accompanied by a degree of leadership potential as well.
A leader gives hope, faith, inspiration and the power of enthusiasm. He is a man of character, a builder pf men, dependable, creative, loyal and honest.