Is leadership something that you can teach or is leadership something you are born with? This is an interesting debate and I’m sure there are plenty of people on both camps. I don’t believe leadership can be taught, it’s either a part of your DNA or it isn’t. The ability to show empathy, engage, empower, and inspire others is just not something that can be trained into someone. However, like an actor learns a new role, I think some people have the ability “act” out some leadership qualities and behaviors but that doesn’t make them a leader. People that say “good job” but don’t meant it, people that appear to be listening when they aren’t, and people that go through the “employee empowerment” checklist yet have no connection with those they work with, these aren’t leaders, these are the pretenders and they far more harm than good inside of our organizations.

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