Leadership Can Be Learned
"Leadership can be defined as a set of competencies which can be learned.
Some eighty aspects of knowledge, skills, and attitudes have been taken
into account in our research which have been clustered into
competencies. To sum it up. an understanding of the concepts described
here has helped us to bring into focus that the acquisition of
leadership competencies should occur by plan and design, rather than by
accident. Although leaders may emerge — as they do today — as
by-products of group processes, this is neither an economical nor an
effective way of developing leadership."
Leadership is a "process with a purpose. It is a process of the learner moving
from a state wherein he cannot yet perform as the described purpose of
the training to a state where he can demonstrate such performance. This
move is what training is about. Training is the making of specific
arrangements in the environment of the learner which provide him with
experiences by which he can confront and master the learning task, by
which he can be transformed to the state where he can perform as
desired."
"Leadership development cannot be perceived as a single training course or as a one-shot event, but must be a continuous sequence of closely chained and systematically organized learning and experience-building opportunities." Bela Banathy