Leadership Training

I am not really sure how to begin a response to such a subject. I have accepted my nomination into a course for leadership without really considering all of the surrounding opinions of having done so. Upon reading this article, I discovered many a discrimination encircling this subject and am confused as to why. It seems to me that the people that are in power are showing concern for their ever-growing lack of ability to properly control and lead this nation and various parts of it. And so, they are attempting to teach various youth certain leadership 'techniques'. This in itself seems like a joke. I agree with the idea that leadership books are nothing more than 'ego exercises for the author'.

However, it is quite untrue that it is an offer of false promises. And anyone can indeed become a leader. It isn't about wanting to take over something however. It is about helping, and stepping in when necessary; understanding the decisions that need to be made and then going through the process of making them. I think there is something left unsaid in this particular article however; is there a limit? Leadership is importance in the guidance it provides, if it becomes a complete take over than it is nothing more than dictatorship. Perhaps this is the fear that keeps people from coming to try to describe leadership; that they might cross the boundary and become something they don't want to be.

The courses, those that are academically based, need to be purely discussion based. It cannot become about the grades or the necessity to lead, or even just one definition of the word 'leadership' and yet, leadership in it's entirety needs to be explored to understand the pros and cons of various types of leading. The world needs to understand a new type of leadership and a new type of understanding in itself. Leadership is indeed something that can be learned, and should be learned, but not necessarily put to use all the time.

Leadership is not a joke, it is a skill. And one worthy of being learned and put to proper use as any individual should choose.