Jamie Morley

Steven, You make several good points Steven. One is that you need to provide recognition. A good leader recognizes staff in public and corrects them in private. Another of your points, if I am interpreting it correctly is that you should give new leaders incremental authority to allow them to grow. This is critical. Everybody needs opportunities to succeed and success breeds success. Sometimes a good strategy is to give multiple people on the team some tasks that stretch their abilities and see which one emerges as a leader. This helps you to strengthen your management pool while developing new… >>>

David, This is an interesting perspective. I agree that people can be trained to effectively complete the tasks that are required of the position. An alternate perspective to think about is that there is a reason why job descriptions ask for a "Manager of XXX" and not a "Leader of XXX." This is because managers can be trained to do a task and to supervise and motivate others to do a task. However, in my opinion leadership is a characteristic that people can strengthen but if it is not an innate characteristic for that person, they won’t be a successful… >>>