Developing leaders at every level is vital for any organisation attempting to gain competitive advantage.
- Increasingly viewed as fundamental to an organization’s success, it has become integral to many training and development portfolios.
- Leadership cannot be learned from simply reading about it or listening to even the best of lectures.
- It is learned and then applied through direct experience, more often ‘on the job’ but at times too when being removed from any direct involvement in day-to-day roles and responsibilities are best served through a more formalized training and development intervention.
- Roger Gill defines leadership development as “Knowing what to do, how to do it, wanting to do it, and then actually applying it.”
- Learning, therefore, means the continuous testing of experience and the transformation of that experience into knowledge and subsequently behaviors and actions.
