The development of leadership skills are learned in a range of contexts as leadership is influence although not necessarily learned at home. Confidence is important, you don’t necessarily need to be an extrovert but you need the ability to address both small and medium sized groups of people. For some, addressing groups of people are the difference between becoming a leader, an introvert v extravert dilemna.

Much energy has been expelled on studying leadership traits and while values and beliefs are important, I believed these are learned attributes. I’m not convinced that the results from early trait leadership studies are the answer. I am a believer in behavioral leadership contexts, the theory considers observable actions between leader and team members. Placing leadership in context; the skills of initiative, critical thinking, motivation, active listening, delegation, conflict management, communication and exhibiting role model behaviour all form leadership skill-sets.