Leadership development
Chapter 13 reviews leadership development and the key facilitating conditions for it. Three forms
of leadership development are identified: formal training, developmental activities and self-help
activities. Leadership training programmes are discussed, as are the design of the courses,
many of which concentrate on a particular theory, for example leader-member exchange (LMX).
The author points out the much-vaunted statement that effective skills for leadership are mostly
learned from experience and not from training programmes. With this in mind, work-based
developmental activities are considered, and the presence of a strong learning culture in an
organisation goes a long way to supporting leadership development.