Title: Have We Removed Leadership from Leader Development? - The Military Leader
Headings: Have We Removed Leadership from Leader Development?
Have We Removed Leadership from Leader Development?
A Succession of Skills
Stuck in the Schoolhouse
“It’s on you, follower.”
What Do You Think About Leader Development?
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Content: To truly grow leaders instead of just skilled followers, leaders need to teach topics like example setting, self-development, learning from failure, building trust, having a success mindset, protecting the team, demanding the best performance, and so on. These aren’t technical competencies, they’re not warfighting competencies…they’re leadership competencies. If leaders fail to make these lessons explicit during training and leader development events, they should not expect subordinates to model the behavior and become good leaders themselves. Leader development means teaching the How and Why, while the team is doing the What. Leader development means elevating the conversation above the level of task execution. Leader development means talking about leadership on a daily basis, not just in the schoolhouse. “ Leader development” is incomplete without leadership. What Do You Think About Leader Development? I want to know if you agree with this assertion. In the next post, I’ll make some recommendations for making leadership a focus of leader development.