Leaders Are Made Not Born - part 1

We've all heard the maxim "A born leader" and probably bought into the idea that those qualities that make up leadership are inherit behaviors, less learned and less trainable.  This is simply not true.  There are characterics of leadership, like charisma, or technical prowess, or strategy, that some leaders have innately and display more easily, but real leadership with emotional intelligence and consistent decision making takes work, training, and the ability to learn from mistakes.  

Organizations will spend hundred of hours training and licensing underwriters, fincancial consultants, and customer service representatives, but virtually no hours on training managers, directors, and vice presidents on how to be leaders.

Why is that?

The fallacy of the born leader is one reason why.  The idea that if your good at one role, such as underwriting then you already know how to lead a team of underwriters. This belief is at the heart of why organizations have inefficient and discordant teams.  They are not putting the same amount of training in the fundamentals of being a leader of a team as they do in training the technical aspects of the job.

Real leadership, with emotional intelligence, consistent decision making, and the ability to pull a team together to drive results...well...out of hundreds of leaders I've worked with, worked as a peer, and worked for, I can count on two hands the number of leaders that are well balanced, create strong organzations, and actually achieved top tier results...and I trained half of them.

In part 2 of Leaders Are Made Note Born, I will bring up real live examples of leaders that put the time and training in to drive a well run team and I will also give an example of what I see all too often...teams where the leader is inconsistent, unaware of how to build teamwork,  and unwilling to do the training it takes to reach their potential as a leader.

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