Comments on: What is Leadership Development?

By: Allan Kelsey

Allan Kelsey — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:28:27 +0000

Mac, I love your definition for Leadership.
It covers the internal issues of Character, talents and Strengths and the external tools of experience, training and tooling.
It is outcome oriented instead of process focused without loosing the value of a system.

WELL DONE!

By: Robert Mullen

Robert Mullen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:50:28 +0000

I think there is a difference between leadership training and leadership development. Training is teaching how to do leadership things, development is how we are to be. Leadership development is building character, integrity, ethic into the leader. What are thoughts on this?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:48:17 +0000

I love the first point:

intentional process – too often we try to develop leaders without having a well thought out process. We say, “our leadership development is organic”. Another way to put it is “our leadership development is accidental”.

So few churches have a long term, intentional process in place. It’s easier celebrate the serendipitous formation of an occasional leader!