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Be able to plan the development of leadership skills
Development of leadership skills: different methods of developing leaders
through formal learning, self-help and developmental activities eg training
courses, job rotation, seminars, executive coaching, mentoring, companies’ own
universities, developmental assessment centres, action learning, self-directed
learning, reading articles, partnership with key academics; changing
methodology in leadership development programmes; benefits of self-help
activities eg learning from mistakes, viewing events from multiple perspectives;
developing leaders versus recruiting as needed; creating a learning climate;
model for assessing future leadership requirements eg Council for Excellence in
Leadership and Management diagnostic tools; leadership competencies eg
thinking and acting strategically, emotional intelligence, social intelligence,
ability to learn, systems thinking