There is no simple formula to "Make leaders"
Any leadership training Programs will never be 100% successful
I agree totally how does a leadership training program on subjects with
different degrees of
integrity, honesty, or empathy work?
followship is also very important.
When I attended Officer Candidate School for the US Army in 1980 (we started
with 100 candidates and graduated 28) we didn't study leadership during the
first phase, rather followship was demanded before we could be taught to be
leaders.
I go back to one of my earlier e-mail " the most important personnel quality
of being a successful leader is the desire to
While it will not guarantee success the desire not to be leader will render
any leadership training program a failure for the student that does not
truly want to be a leader, maybe they just want to fly airplanes.
Perhaps the starting point of any leadership training program is the
importance of leadership.
discuss aviation situations when leadership was the difference between
success and failure.
I think this I great discussion.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Joering [mailto:Gerry_Joering_at_CompuServe.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 2:28 PM
To: INTERNET:crm-devel_at_db.erau.edu
Subject: leadership principles and techniques
Like many of you I have endured several "leadership" programs, both
military and civilian. It is all interesting but surprisingly like the
bromide on Chinese food: taste good going down but doesn't last long. The
substance just isn't there.
We need to discuss principles, both positive and negative implications. We
need to provide practice, role playing or simulation or case study. In the
end you have to go out and do it and learn from experience, self-asessment
and mentoring.
Isn't it interesting that despite years of corporate leadership training
the military in fact doesn't make successful leaders out of all it's
members. Why not?
What is the effect of lack of integrity, honesty, or empathy? We get
plenty of cultural signals that many principles are flexible in given
situations. Are they?
Finally, we don't talk enough about followership.
I hope someone out there can come up with a good program on leadership.
>From what I have seen thus far they just don't exist!
Gerry